A HEART FOR ROSES

There has been two different roses named after the Cambridgeshire of Papworth Everard, one of which was named after the famous heart hospital.

The Royal Papworth Hospital, which has a rose named after it by Paul Chessum, is now located on the Addenbrookes Campus Site in Cambridge. Until then the Hospital had been located at Papworth Hall and it was there that in 1979 Sir Terrace English performed the first successful heart transplant. The receiver of the new heart being 52 year old, Keith Castle, who was to live another five years after receiving his new organ.

The Hospital had begun as a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis amongst the soldiers discharged in the First World War, before in the 1950s facilities were developed there to do chest/lung surgery and later open heart surgery.

While Papworth Hall had been built between 1810 and 1813 for Charles Madryll Cheere.

The Paul Chussum rose, which was originally know as the 'Papworth House Rose' before having the 'Royal' added after the Hospital gained royal status, is a hybrid tea rose with dark red flowers and was introduced in 2001.

The 2nd of the Papworth roses, Papworth Pride, was introduced in 2017 to celebrate the centenary of the Papworth Trust. It is a modern shrub rose that was bred by Michael Baldwin of Peter Beales Roses and has raspberry red flowers. It grows to about 150cm by 120.