COMPASSION

Compassion is a climber and a lovely rose.  I'm training mine to arch over a gateway but it will be another year or so yet before it makes it.  I have to train it quite high so that it doesn't attack any visitors coming through the gate although it isn't very thorny.   Compassion is an RHS award winner, the flowers can be cut for the home, it is quite healthy although mine did have an attack of mildew last year from which it has recovered and it's now throwing out really robust shoots from the base which I love to see. 

All these flowers emanate from one stem!
 

It's a Harkness bred rose (1972), an apricot blend with a very strong fragrance.   One of its parents is Prima Ballerina (the other 'White Cockade') which I discussed in a post yesterday.  Compassion has received the Royal Horticultural Society 'Award of Garden Merit in 1993, as well as the Royal National Rose Society Edland Fragrance Medal of 1973; Best Climber of the American Rose Society 2000; Baden-Baden Gold Medal 1975; Genova Gold Medal 1975; Orleans Gold Medal 1979; Royal National Rose Society Fragrance Medal 1973; and the Anerkannte Deutsche Rose 1978.

Great for cutting too.

Don't grow it facing north as it prefers to face south if possible.  Mine faces south-west.