Mary Delany is a David Austin climbing rose introduced in 2002, named for the 18th-century English artist and gardener known for her botanically accurate paper flowers. It's an unusual and graceful climber. Pointed pink buds open to loosely double, light pink flowers of about 55 petals, held in large, open sprays on slender dark stems. As they open fully they show their golden stamens, and bees visit them freely. The scent is a light-to-medium Old Rose with hints of fruit. It flowers over a very long season. David Austin describes it as healthy and almost thornless, with small dark green leaves, so it's easy to train over an arch, pillar, obelisk or doorway, or along a 3 m wall or fence. It grows in any soil, faces any direction, tolerates partial shade and is rated hardy to zone 4.

An almost thornless, cold-hardy David Austin climber with open pink sprays that bees visit.