Kronenburg Rose

The hybrid tea rose Kronenburg must be unpopular, since neither of my big, serious rose books list it. A sport of the popular and desirable Peace, Kronenburg has a similar growth habit, though its strong red and yellow colours are hardly peaceful.

Flaming Peace

In fact, several catalogues I checked with call it 'Flaming Peace', which isn't really a very kind name at all! I did find an alternative spelling, namely 'Kronenbourg', and am proud to inform readers that this very rose was featured on a postage stamp in Uruguay. Thanks, Google!

Kronenburg has two main colours - a claret red, and a straw yellow 'reverse'. It is a large flowered hybrid tea, impossible to ignore, and ostentatiously beautiful. My seaside gardening friend, who is extremely artistic, includes Kronenburg in her almost rose-less garden.

My two live in the front of the new Birthday Rose Garden underneath some standard olive trees. They don't really fit in with their fluffy pastel David Austin neighbours - that's just too bad!

A Striking Rose

Kronenburg is a rose to admire and enjoy. I hope you don't consider it 'ugly'. Perhaps 'striking' is a better description of its unusual beauty.