Grow this flower in May: gorgeous blooms, repeat flowering across seasons, and a delightful fragrance that keeps you coming back for more.

Parade is arguably the most widely grown climbing rose among rose enthusiasts. It bears deep pink flowers with relatively few petals, around 33, but it blooms in clusters, keeps flowering over a long season, and has a mild scent, making it ideal for creating flower walls and flower hedges.

The flowers of Parade are less deep pink or vivid pink than a fierce pink, an intense pink that stands out strikingly against a backdrop of green, like the red lips of a 1990s dance hall girl: garish, bold, charming, powdered and worldly, piercing your gaze at first sight and leaving you unable to look away.

Parade may not be the most popular climbing rose variety, but it is truly one of the best-performing varieties today. Parade does not need much care from you, nor much expectation; it only needs space from you, and even if that space is the most unremarkable corner, it will reward you with the most beautiful blooms.

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