Rosa 'Violette', Rosa 'Veilchenblau', Rosa 'Rose-Marie Viaud', Rosa 'Bleu Magenta', Rosa 'Goldfinch'

Graham Stuart Thomas was a partner at Sunningdale Nurseries in the mid 1940s and Gardens Advisor to the National Trust from 1955. In the 1960s he was awarded the RHS's Veitch Memorial Medal and the Victoria Medal of Honour. Appointed OBE in 1975, he is recognised as a horticulturalist, rosarian, writer and artist.