Text: Yuta Arbatskaya, Konstantyn Vikhlyayev

1. Anna Pavlova

    In 1981 the whole world celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Anna Pavlova's birth, who was the great Russian ballet dancer. The rose ‘Anna Pavlova’ (HT, Peter Beales, 1981) appeared in her honour in the same year. The sort is bred by English breeder Peter Beales and refers to hybrid tea roses. Flowers are pale pink, full (26- 40 petals), of antique form. The bush height is 100-120 cm, diameter is up to 90 cm. In 1986 the sort was awarded a silver medal at the roses’ competition in Genoa.