Chianti is aptly named, the darkest of purplish crimsons, with a bit of fire glowing through at the center. The bush creates a large shrub that naturally arches and breaks lateral blooms all along the cane. Bloom period is extended and vermillion hips hold through the winter. It is one of the earliest David Austin roses (1965) that showed the world the potential of returning to the old roses (The Gallica Tuscany is in the lineage of Chianti) in order to strike out in new directions of rose breeding. Chianti wine originates in Tuscany. In the style of many antiques, Chianti throws up thirty or more canes which go up four or five feet and then arch widely out in all directions in a tidy way. Give it a space of at least 6x6'.
Introduced in 1986.
