How do I name a real Rose that I can grow in my Garden?

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If you want to name a real rose and grow it in your garden you need to become a very good Botanist. So please do not be fooled into naming a rose and having a seed or rose bush sent to your door. It just does not work that way. To find out more we cannot recommend enough that you join The Royal National Rose Society for just £26 per year plus an initial £5 joining fee.

Just Look at what you get for you money :-

• Free copy of ‘The Rose’ magazine three times per year. This beautifully produced magazine is packed with stunning rose photographs as well as practical advice from expert rose growers, topical articles and rose news.
• Free advice from rose experts on how to choose the right roses to grow and selection of companion plants for roses.
• Free advice from rose experts on rose care and rose growing problems.
• Free access to beautiful rose gardens including Sudeley Castle, Mannington Gardens and Renishaw Hall Gardens and more including the Society’s Garden.
• A free bare root rose or a rose handbook.
• Discounts from rose nurseries and on new rose publications.
• Access to the Society’s specialist courses and workshops and practical pruning and rose demonstrations held throughout the year. Members can also use the Society’s library, thought to be the most comprehensive rose library in the world.
• The opportunity to show roses you have grown and to attend rose shows.
• Access to the members only area of the Royal National Rose Society website.

Where can I find out more?

UK Plants Variety Office and Seeds Division http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pvs/default.htm and the UK Plants Breeders' Rights Handbook http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pvs/guides/pbrguide-20050317.pdf

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, maintains an international plant name database with Harvard University and the Australian National Herbarium: http://www.ipni.org/

Royal Horticultural Society's guide to plant naming http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantnaming.asp

UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) http://www.ipo.gov.uk/patent/p-applying/p-should/p-should-otherprotect/p-should-otherprotect-plant.htm