Lady Hillingdon is one of my favourite tea roses. She is a 20th Century tea, being released in England in 1910, and handles the hot, harsh conditions of Summer in our back garden without missing a beat. Her buds are long and pointed and of a rich apricot colour, and the blooms retain this colour initially before fading prettily to a lighter cream. My grafted specimen has been quite slow to establish as compared to the cutting-grown teas that I have grown, but after several years without pruning it has reached waist-height. It appears to be of the typical branching tea habit, being as wide as it is high. The fragrance is magnificent.
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