More members of the Hybrid Musk Group.

Above: Another Kordes-raised member of the hybrid musk group is Eva, a semi-double carmine-red rose with the merest touch of white at the centre. Despite having much fewer petals than many of her hybrid musk counterparts, Eva is still very fragrant.

Eva(above and below)

Above: Lavender Lassie is a champion of a rose who, despite being a relatively modern release from 1960, is bundled up with the hybrid musks. She fits in this category beautifully, forming a large arching shrub whose branches are laden with soft pink-tinged lavender blooms. Her perfume is very fragrant, and she is very healthy. I have never pruned her, simply snipping off the spent clusters if I can be bothered.

Lavender Lassie

Above: The white rose in this photo with the pink David Austin rose 'John Clare' is the hybrid musk 'Kathleen'. She is grown in quite a shady position in our garden and has developed into a tall and wide shrub- I am not sure what her habit would be if grown in an open sunny position.
Kathleen in full bloom is a sight to behold, and an absolute treat to the olfactory senses...the air around her for metres is sweet with musky perfume. A similar hybrid musk is 'Moonlight', but I personally prefer Kathleen for her yellow stamens...she has an airy appearance that I just love.

Above: Kathleen

Above: Hybrid musk rose 'Kathleen' with 'John Clare'

Above: Buff Beauty typifies everything wonderful about the hybrid musks- he is just as happy growing as a big sprawly shrub as he is behaving as a small climber. Scent: delicious. Colour: as his name describes, buff/gold/ to creamy white as he fades.

Above: Buff Beauty

Above and below: Although Emshorn was released by Kordes in 1951, it is often classified as a hybrid musk so I will include it here. I have never met a tougher rose...after continually popping out of a huge ( and I mean shed-eating) potato vine year after year, with the base of the rose located somewhere deep in the bowels of the vine, it must be awarded the Survivor of the Century Award. Last year the potato vine was totally grubbed out (what a task!!!), and the straggly Elmshorn given its freedom. It has repaid us by a glorious display of bloom this Spring, intertwined this time with a far more forgiving Indica Major (the remains of a grafted rose who didn't have the tenacity to fight the potato vine).

Elmshorn

Above: This hybrid musk rose, Prosperity, has snuck up on me over the last few years. I have paid it very little attention until last year, when I realised in November just how magnificent its snowy white display was. The individual blooms are perfect, and are carried in big trusses. The scent is, of course, sweet and musky. Prosperity is a brilliant shrub rose for a mixed border, and has a good repeat bloom in Autumn.

Above: Prosperity.