Book  (14 Mar 2010)  
 
'Bleak House' HRg, dp, Irvine, Susan ; flowers rich, clear pink , 5 cm., semi-double, flat, moderate, sweet fragrance; recurrent; growth 4 ft. x 4 ft. growth. Introductions: 1995
Seedling discovered in Susan Irvine's garden.

Website/Catalog  (2002)  Page(s) 16.  
 
‘Bleak House’ A seedling Rugosa discovered in Susan Irvines garden at Bleak House. Rich pink double blooms up to 5cm across with delicious sweet perfume. Repeats. 1.2 x 1.2m.

Website/Catalog  (2002)  Page(s) 3.  
 
‘Bleak House’. (Hybrid rugosa) 1999. Fully double, fragrant, recurrent rose, flowering from October to May. Crinkled, glossy, deep green foliage which turns bronze in Autumn. Seedling of ‘Schneezwerg’ with deep cerise pink blooms. Good companion to ‘Schneezwerg’ and ‘Lily Freeman’, creating a mixed colour hedge. Grows up to 1.5 metres high and 1 metre wide.

Website/Catalog  (2002)  Page(s) 2.  
 
‘Bleak House’. (Rugosa) A vigorous shrub with double deep pink fragrant blooms. Nice foliage Recurrent. Old fashioned. Grafted only.

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 90.  
 
Susan Irvine. Gardening with Heritage Roses. ….A few weeks later my annual parcel of roses from John Nieuwesteeg arrived in the mail. Included (unsolicited) were five fine plants of a little pink seedling Rugosa which had sowed itself at Bleak House in my time there. I had done nothing with it – except to admire it – but my successors there had propagated and registered it and released it as ‘Bleak House’. John though I might like to plant it. It was a seedling of the white ‘Schneezwerg’ with the same habit of growth, the same disease-free foliage, the same small scarlet hips. But the flowers were bright pink instead of white. So I rang John and ordered five Schneezwerg and planted the pink and the white rose alternatively round the circle between the Prunus trees leaving one space for entrance into what will be in a few years’ time, a secret garden for feeding the birds and delighting the children. This time there will be no danger of reversion for the little pink rose is a seedling not a sport of its white parent.

Website/Catalog  (2000)  Page(s) 3.  
 
‘Bleak House’ Hyb. Rugosa. 1998. Australia. Hedging, double, fragrant, deciduous, attractive leaves, recurrent. 1.2m x 1.4m. dark pink.

Magazine  (1999)  Page(s) Vol 21, No. 1.  
 
p11 Bernice Carty. Tasmanian Tour. ….We then visited Susan Irvine’s home, Forest Lodge for lunch…..Susan was thrilled to receive [from us] a package of roses from Bleak House. The roses were named ‘Bleak House’.

p47 Gardening Snippets [editor?]. Rugosa ‘Bleak House’. Released in 1998 this rugosa hybrid has fully double deep pink flowers. It is a seedling from ‘Schneezwerg’ and has dark green rugosa type foliage turning bronze in autumn. It flowers from October to May and sets medium sized hips. It appears to be a strong grower. Height approximately 1.5m x width 1m.

Book  (1999)  Page(s) 15.  
 
‘Bleak House’ Bleak House, Australia, 1995. Rugosa. Pink. [available from] Golden Vale, Hilltop, Stoneacres