Maria Sklodovska Curie

A fantastic Polish variety with always double (fully open), spherical or semi-spherical, white flowers that appear abundantly in June and July.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: Medium-sized flowers, diam. 12–15 cm, always double (semi-double when fully open), spherical or hemispherical in shape, white; on colder days, greenish discoloration may appear, more intense at the base. The sepals are elliptical, with pointed tips and raised, wavy margins. The flowers are brightened by golden stamens on cream-coloured filaments. It blooms abundantly in June–July, covered with flowers from 80 cm up to the top of the plant. The leaves are ternate, composed of three elliptical, sometimes almost round, sharply pointed leaflets, light green in spring, dark green in summer, glossy, leathery, large, hairless.

HOW IT GROWS: climbs by means of leaf stalks. It grows moderately vigorously, reaching 2 m in height.