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I found my way over here today and felt like it was time for another comment. I truly love your garden Jon. To me it is all a garden should be.
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Jon’s garden photo of the excavation reiterates to me that alkaline gardens can really grow beautiful roses.
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Yes, 'gardening on chalk' is often written about in English books and I hoped that photo would explain what it means. There is a garden a few miles down the valley called Mottisfont that does it much better.
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Well, that's so nice to hear in this cold and wet Spring! May have to add a few more pictures in that case!
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Rearsby's Roses - who found and registered this rose - appear to have ceased trading. The only reference I can find to them is a planning application for re-development of their property.
My plant came from Lady Salisbury's garden in Dorset c. 1999, and I have not seen it for sale since (though 2 nurseries have it on their catalogue).
Both Gregg Lowery (Vintage Gardens) and David Stone (Mottisfont Abbey) have seen it in situ and are happy with the attribution. It is a hugely vigorous climber - doing for 'Ballerina' what the climbing form of 'Mlle Cecile Brunner' does for its namesake.
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A helpful note re pronunciation: a ditty by Philadelphia journalist Ralph D Paine in 1897 regarding LG's son who captained the England cricket team on an American tour that year tells us:
At one end stocky Jessop frowned,
The human catapult
Who wrecks the roofs of distant towns
When set in his assault.
His mate was that perplexing man
We know as "Looshun-Gore",
It isn’t spelt at all that way,
We don’t know what it’s for.
But as with Cholmondeley and St. John
The alphabet is mixed,
And Yankees cannot help but ask -
"Why don't you get it fixed?"
The Cricket Captains of England, Alan Gibson, 1989, The Pavilion Library, ISBN 1-85145-390-3, p114
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Love it! But the poet(aster) didn't get the emphasis on St John right, I think.
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Hello
I'm in the process of writing a book about Barbier's roses, and think I can add something to "Le Poilu"
According to Dickerson's Old Rose Adventurer, p 312, this rose is a cross between Barbier's Wichmoss and Moussue de Japon. I've never seen the rose, but the pics from Amiroses seem to reflect the parentage. MR12 concurs
Lloyd
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Reply #1 of 2 posted 2 MAR 12 by  Lyn G
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Thank you. I have added the Modern Roses 12 Reference to the rose page and the lineage.
Smiles,
Lyn
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'I'm in the process of writing a book about Barbier's roses...'
Goody!
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