A Floribunda rose.

2ft-3ft. 1989

GANflo Bred by Douglas Gandy.

This beautiful rose will always have a place in our affections as it was bred by the late Douglas Gandy, who raised so many famous roses during his lifetime and provided us with much of our stock over the years. A great rose garden, many of the roses he raised are still popular today, such as’ Memories are made of this’ Father’s Favorite ‘and the climber’ Creme Brulee ‘. During the middle of the last century, it produced the beautiful and luminous rose ‘David Whitfield’ named after the famous singer, and ‘Jimmy Greaves’, a deep cherry hybrid tea named after the famous footballer, plus the yellow climber’ All Gold ‘that is is still extremely popular today.

In 1989 he introduced ‘Florence Nightingale’, which we still consider one of the best roses he has ever bred. It produces clusters of shaded beige flowers mottled with pink, opening to silvery white.

It blooms continuously during the summer and will produce many more blooms if slaughtered regularly.

Very attractive and really eye-catching, as well as good resistance to diseases.

It can be grown in the garden or in a pot.

Plant in full sun for the best flower show, but can cope with a bit of shade. It is not a powerful perfume, but it does have a fresh and pleasant fragrance.

A very pretty floribunda that doesn’t get the recognition it deserves.

Named after Florence Nightingale, the world famous nurse who helped so many soldiers during the Crimean War.

NIGHTMARE OF FLORENCE

(The woman with the lamp)

1820-1910

Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 into a wealthy English family and the apple of her father’s eye. A very intelligent girl, her father took responsibility for her education and taught her Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, history, philosophy, and mathematics. As a result, she was far better prepared academically for life than most of the women in her class, as women were not expected to study and join any of the professions. Her expected role in life was simply to be a wife and mother.

When she announced that she wanted to study nursing, her family was horrified that nursing was associated with the lower classes. However, her father eventually relented and sent her to Germany to study nursing. With that experience behind her, she returned to England in 1853 to take up a position as superintendent at a ladies’ hospital on Harley Street. London.

A year later the Crimean War began and reports began to come in about a lack of adequate medical facilities for British soldiers who were wounded at the front. Sidney Herbert, the minister of war at the time, and a friend of Miss Nightingale asked him to bring a team of nurses to Turkey to try to improve the situation. In those days not much was known about disease and good sanitation and thousands of soldiers died while being treated in such dirty conditions. Even Miss Nightingale and her team of nurses did not know that poor hygiene was responsible for so many deaths, not just poor nursing. However, as time passed, they realized the importance of hygiene and good sanitation and greatly improved the facilities, greatly reducing the death rate among wounded soldiers.

After the war, he returned to England and founded The Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. (now called the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery and is part of King’s College London) In 1883, Queen Victoria awarded Miss Nightingale the Royal Red Cross. In 1904 she was named Dame de Gracia of the Order of San Juan. And in 1907 she became the first woman to receive the Order of Merit. In 1908 he was awarded the Honorary Freedom of the City of London.

During the Crimean War, she earned the nickname ‘The Lady with the Lamp’ due to a war report in The Times newspaper.

“She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender figure glides silently down every aisle, every poor man’s face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired to pass the night and the silence and the darkness have settled on those kilometers of prostrate sick people, it can be observed alone, with a lamp in hand, making its solitary rounds ”.

After a long and eventful life, he died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 90 at his home on Park Lane. London.

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