The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has teamed up with award-winning grower Peter Beales Roses to create a new rose to celebrate 200 years of saving lives at sea.
The orange rose has been named ‘With Courage’ by the charity’s supporters in homage to one of the RNLI’s key values and the words of founder Sir William Hillary who said: ‘With courage, nothing is impossible.’
The floribunda rose will form part of Peter Beales’ display at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show – which opens to the public on Tuesday 21 May – and will be flanked by a D class inshore lifeboat, the workhorse of the RNLI fleet.
Peter Beales Nursery Manager, Ian Limmer, whose grandfather volunteered at Sheringham Lifeboat Station, Norfolk, for 30 years, has overseen the breeding of the rose for the RNLI’s 200th anniversary year.
Ian spoke to Ken Crowther about the development of the rose.
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