Commissioned Roses

The McCarthy Collection

William P.J. McCarthy has been a patron and a friend of Select Roses since its early beginnings. A real estate practitioner by trade, he holds certifications in residential landscaping, garden design, bee keeping, and rose judging; he is also an esteemed Master Gardener, who cultivates more than 1250 rose on his estate. This collection represents a small but noteworthy category within his collection: roses commissioned to honour the people and beliefs cherished by McCarthy and his family.

 
 

William P.J. McCarthy - Clear pink floribunda

Claire McCarthy - Ivory miniature

Carl & Cathrina - Poppy to red-orange miniature

Saint Benedict - White shrub with golden stamens

John Jambor - Mauve miniature

Shiloh Hill - Red-silver bicolour floribunda

Utopia - Hybrid tea

Liberty - Shimmering scarlet landscape rose

William P.J. McCarthy - Floribunda An ideal shrub: very bushy rounded and robust growing. It will grow in almost any situation and flowers with steady waves from late spring until frost. Perfectly clear mid-pink colour and luscious form. Extremely
Carl & Cathrina - Miniature A rich poppy-red to red-orange miniature, this rose was selected by William McCarthy as a gift for his close friends, in celebration of their passion for gardening. Clusters of flowers bloom in flushes throughout the seas
Claire McCarthy - Miniature This ivory-cream miniature rose intensifies in colour under some growing conditions. Classic hybrid tea formation, that is elegant at all stages. Claire makes a wonderful container or border rose, and thrives on good cul
John Jambor - Miniature John Jambor was born in 1902 in what is now Slovakia. A self-made man he, in 1991, left behind a tremendous legacy of philanthropy and the Canadian ideal. William McCarthy named this miniature rose in memory of John: his gran
Saint Benedict - Shrub A graceful yet robust beauty, this rose offers pale peach buds that open to reveal golden stamens. Flowers fade to white as they age. The progression of colour from peach to white, often on the same plant, has a remarkable ef
Utopia - Hybrid Tea While Mr. McCarthy may have been attracted to this hybrid tea rose by its warm, gentle colours and superb fragrance, he commissioned its naming upon learning that the trial plant had been virtually untended for several years, pro
Liberty - Landscape Outstanding disease-free landscape rose with brilliant single poppy-red blooms. Rounded, dense shrub with lush glossy leaves, proving roses can look good in leaf or flower. Early and fast to rebloom, setting hips for the fall enc
Shiloh Hill - Floribunda Named for my good friends grand estate, that houses a broad range of plants from, thousands of Roses, Hydrangeas, Azaleas. Maples and every other plant under the sun. Shiloh Hill is an extraordinary rose, highly resistant to
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