Tess of the d'Urbervilles® Zone 6 AARS Winner 1982

AARS Winner 1982

upright plant with light green foliage

Distant Drums is a wonderful shrub rose with unique colorings with ruffled petals that are bronze-brown in the center shading to lavender toward the edges

Shades of very light salmon and apricot blooms cover Amber Abundance®

The whole impression is one of delicacy and grace all produced on a nearly thorn-less bush

Tess of the d'Urbervilles® Zone 6 AARS Winner 1982Named for the Thomas Hardy novel, Tess of the dUrbervilles features large, fragrant, 4" flowers with 70+ petals in a bright crimson color. Her blooms have a nice, deeply curved shape in the early stages, and then her petals turn back to a less formal flower. Tess of the d'Urbervilles blooms are hefty and usually bend over, giving an elegant, cascading effect to the bush. Her growth is robust and spreads against large, dark green foliage. We love Tess