Bred by Melissa Paul (2014).

Species / Wild.  

Light yellow.  Mild fragrance.  Small, single (4-8 petals) bloom form.  Moderate, once-blooming spring or summer.  Small buds.  

Arching, armed with thorns / prickles.  Small, fragrant foliage.  9 to 11 leaflets.  

Can be used for specimen.  

Tessie's Rose is an open-pollinated seedling of R. primula (from Pickering Nurseries). In November of 2014 six seeds were sown from a hip I collected earlier in 2014 and had stored in the refrigerator. Five seeds germinated. Two bloomed for the first time in 2016 and were both white, and two bloomed for the first time in 2017 and were both yellow. Tessie's Rose is one of these two. Tessie's Rose, and indeed my garden here on HMF, are named after one of my Hungarian Kuvasz, Santa's Forest Flying Tessie. Tessie really liked roses as in REALLY liked them--to EAT. Not the flowers or the hips, but the whole darn plant. One year when I was planting roses in my backyard, I discovered that Tessie was following along behind me and pulling up the new plants and eating them whole, roots and all. She seemed to like the thorniest ones best and never seemed to hurt her mouth on the weaponized canes. I could not plant roses in the areas she had access to because they would be consumed. She passed away in 2005 at the age of 12. Since I started growing roses from seed, I have been looking for the right seedling to name after this character. I found it when one of the R. primula seedlings was just getting its first buds on its arching canes and one of my current Kuvasz, either Gizi or Zephyr, chewed the ends of the cane off along with the first buds. Delicious tasting plant = Tessie's Rose. Also Tessie's coat was more of a cream color than pure white, so the light yellow flower color is closer to her coat than that of the two white seedlings Gizi's Rose and Zephyr's Rose.