Neat, compact rose to 75cm tall, with dark green foliage and bearing fragrant, fully double, mauve and smoky purple blooms, repeat-flowering through summer and autumn ...

2 in the US, reaching a more modest No.9 in the UK. “Ebb Tide” also reached No.10 in the US for Vic Damone in 1953 and No.30 for Roy Hamilton in 1954. Other versions followed by Frank Sinatra ...

The song was abandoned and forgotten about for four years, until Rose’s record label, MGM, needed a B-side for a new song of his, “Ebb Tide.” MGM insisted on getting the new track out as ...