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'Martha Ford' rose References
Website/Catalog  (31 Jan 2014)  
 
Name: 'Martha Ford'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Martha Ford
HMult, ab, Nobbs. Introductions: 1987
Book  (2012)  Page(s) 85.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Martha Ford'. This is a sweet little rose and one of the few non-ramblers Ken bred. He named it to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Fords' arrival in New Zealand, and originally called it 'Hayward and Martha Ford'. Although ostensibly bred from the rambler 'Tausendschon', it has the style of a small polyantha and flowers from spring to autumn. Ken himself notes that "this flower was in full bloom (not just the odd flower) in August and September and as I write this is still flowering in mid-October". There is no registration paper to confirm the date of breeding but Ken recorded it as being bred in 1986. It has apricot-pink blooms which quickly fade to white and, unusually for Ken, has a lovely fragrance. We are very fond of this lovely little bush, sitting in the front of the border softening the vibrant colours of the summer. It is quite thornless and healthy, and we have always enjoyed its gentleness.
Magazine  (2007)  Page(s) 46, Vol 21, No. 3.  
 
Lloyd Chapman. The Best of Ken Nobbs Roses.
'Martha Ford' is in the style of a small Polyantha, which flowers from spring until autumn. She has apricot-pink blooms that quickly fade to white. Unusually for a Nobbs rose, she is fragrant and very recurrent, and is claimed to descend from 'Tausendschon'.
Newsletter  (1991)  Page(s) 24-25. Vol 12, No. 2.  
 
Ken Nobbs: I was also growing smooth stem rambler roses using 'Tausendschon' and 'Veilchenblau', the former as seed parent. Neither of these two roses is fully thornfree, nevertheless a high proportion of the seedlings have a smooth stem except for hooks under the petioles of the midribs of the pinnate leaves..... Most of these seedlings have massed display of red hips to rival a cotoneaster. 'Tausendschon' passed on its floriferousness to four seedlings, which I have named 'Martha Ford' and .....These four, if new shoots are allowed to grow, produce pink buds and double pink fragrant blooms fading to white, and have one good flowering in the depth of winter, usually in August, as well as several periods of bloom during the year. Like 'Tausendschon' they need cleaning up, cutting back any dying shoots.
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