Website/Catalog  (31 Jan 2014)  
 
Name: 'Harriet Sheppard'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Harriet Sheppard
HWich, m, Nobbs. Introductions: 1997

Book  (2012)  Page(s) 55.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Harriet Shepherd'. This excellent rose, bred in 1984, is another seedling from 'Thomfree Wonder' and 'Veilchenblau'. You can see the inftuence of 'Veilchenblau' in the soft violet-mauve blend with the white centre and golden stamens. The blooms are about 5 centimetres in diameter and they pale with age. It has a long flowering period with clusters of many-petaled blooms opening flat. A relatively vigorous climber, it does well planted on each side of an archway where the thornless canes do not snag you, but alas it has no fragrance to envelop you as you pass through. Ken thought much of 'Harriet Shepherd'. In his registration papers he notes that this is 'perhaps the best.' and English rosarian Peter Beales commented - when he first saw it at Trinity Farm - that it was a great rose and should be better known and widely planted. Ken noted that "I intend to register 'Harriet Shepherd' as it is admired by Heritage Rose members and can look after itself apart from family associations." [Ken Nobbs, Memorial Roses Bred by the Author. Bulletin No. 31].

Magazine  (2007)  Page(s) 46. Vol 21, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
p45, Photo. 'Harriet Shepherd'.

p46. Lloyd Chapman. The Best of Ken Nobbs Roses.
'Harriet Shepherd' is a tall Multiflora Rambler, producing clusters of double pinkish-lavender blooms with white throat and golden stamens. Blooms are 5cm in diameter, and pale with age. Peter Beales enthused about her in our garden. Breeding is given by Nobbs as 'Tausendschon' seedling x 'Veilchenblau' and once again it has no fragrance.

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 213.  

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. A few of the seedlings inherited the remontant character of 'Tausendschon', notably 'Harriet Shepherd' with fragrant lavender pink double flowers which gives abundant bloom in March as well as November.

Newsletter  (1988)  Page(s) 10-17. Vol 9, No. 1.  
 
Ken Nobbs: After the departure of the Butlers, James and Harriet Shepherd moved into the Butler residence until the arrival of the Clarkes who, probably because they had a bigger family, insisted on taking over the one good house at Kerikeri......Shepherd enrolled as Principal Agricultural Superintendent, and his work was to engage suitable farmers and mechanics for the enterprise....... Thomas Shepherd has left a record of his first nursery at Petersham in New South Wales. He would get up at 3am to work by moonlight. He wrote: "William MacArthur of Camden Park was the first person ..... Little wonder Thomas Shepherd became a leading nurseryman in Australia. He began advertising in 1831.

Newsletter  (1986)  Page(s) 18-23. Vol 7, No. 3.  
 
Ken Nobbs: Some of the descendants of James and Harriet Shepherd are happy with a rose I have sent them called 'Harriet Shepherd'. As Marjorie Shepherd remarks, Harriet had dark hair and an olive complexion, and the rose of deep lavender would suit such a person.....

'Harriet Shepherd' [named after] (Mrs. James Shepherd). Lavender-mauve blend (80C RHS). Flower 3-4cm. 2 to 5 blooms per cluster. 78 petals. November to December. 'Thornfree Wonder' x 'Veilchenblau'.