Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 559.  Includes photo(s).
 
Souvenir de Mme. Léonie Viennot Climbing Tea. Bernaix (France) 1898. 'Gloire de Dijon' x seedling... light rose pink in color with yellow and coppery orange tints and perhaps a little gold... it flowers on the old wood

Book  (1998)  Page(s) 29.  
 
Dorothy Morris. Victoria. My Mysterious Lady.
I came as a new bride straight from my honeymoon to our new farm in South Gippsland in 1967. With enthusiasm I explored the established garden. There she grew, just outside of the garden fence, and trussed with a rusty old steel support, leant her ten inch wide trunk against the fence, spilling cascades of delightful pink roses over the tops of orderly garden shrubs. Who was she? For over twenty five years I owned her, and I made numerous enquiries, but she still remained a mystery lady of great beauty. Surely someone must know who she is? The previous owner told me how she had found her emerging from the ashes outside the garden fence in 1946, when she too, had come to the farm house as a new bride. A decade or so later, the earlier owner of 1935-1946 visited, and she too, was questioned. She told me she did not know who the mysterious rose was, but told me she had survived the burning down of their old farm house in 1942 and had re-emerged in the garden of their new house. She told me, the original settler's wife, her mother-in-law, had planted the rose when she had come as a bride at the turn of the century. So my mysterious rose was old, very old, and, as a phoenix, had risen from the ashes to bloom and bloom in profusion and beauty.....A search that began for me in 1967 and ended in 1995. She had her name under her Souvenir de Mme. Leonie Viennot

Magazine  (1998)  Page(s) 42. Vol 20, No. 4.  
 
Gillian Batchen, Sydney: …The first rose to come out on this roof is 'Belle Portugaise' followed by Souvenir de Mme. Léonie Viennot both of which don’t repeat but are worth growing for the profusion of flowers and the fact that they flower so early. I don’t have any problem with the fact that some roses don’t repeat flower (I do get a few flowers later on 'Mme. Léonie Viennot' but not enough to describe it as remontant).

Magazine  (1997)  Page(s) 5. Vol 19, No. 1.  Includes photo(s).
 
Cover Photo. Souvenir de Mme. Leonie Viennot

Noelene Drage. Souvenir de Mme. Leonie Viennot
As I grow the cover rose, Marguerite asked me to write the notes on Madame. The laws of gardening being what they are, you will have guessed that there isn't a flower in sight, but I did do a fair cut back on her a fortnight ago (self defence) which all my reading is now telling me I shouldnt have done....

Book  (1996)  Page(s) 120.  
 
Souvenir de Mme. Léonie Viennot. Origin Bernaix, France 1897. An outstandingly healthy rose which enjoys warmth. In warm areas it will produce flowers through the winter. Fragrant, shapely buds of coral-red opening to blooms of a clear yellow, heavily flushed with coppery-pink and coppery-red. Losing colour with age but still looking attractive, a joyful sight particularly when there are few other flowers about. Be wary with this vigorous rose not to prune too hard as it flowers on the older wood. This would be why neglected plants through the country are seen to be flowering so freely. Recurrent flowering and good foliage. Size 3.5 x 2.5m.

Magazine  (1994)  Page(s) 12. Vol 16, No. 1.  
 
Ian and Jean Laing, Ingleside: Rose Survival in Bushfires.
Souvenir de Mme. Leonie Viennot This lovely old rose, one of our favourites, was severely burnt so we were especially delighted when a tentative new shoot finally appeared at the base of the plant about a week after the initial shoots appeared on the other less damaged plants.

Book  (Nov 1993)  Page(s) 42.  
 
Souvenir de Mme. Léonie Viennot Climbing Tea. In the northern part of New Zealand... [this rose] grows like a weed...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 567.  
 
Souv. de Mme. Léonie Viennot Climbing Tea, yellow shaded pink, 1898, Bernaix, A. Description.

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 379.  Includes photo(s).
 
Souvenir de Mme. Leonie Viennot Climbing Tea. Refer to her affectionately as ‘Madame Leonie’, but do not overlook this rose if you need a beautiful and uncommon Climbing Rose. In cold climates she appreciates the warmest wall. Prune her only lightly, if at all, for the finest flowers come from the old wood. The flowers are large, exquisitely long-budded and shapely, in shining blends of salmon and cream. They are richly fragrant too, and borne in profusion all season. The raiser was Andre Bernaix of Lyon, who introduced it in 1898. Foliage is a glossy bronze-green. Parentage unknown. Repeat flowering. Fragrant.

Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 224.  
 
Souvenir de Mme Léonie Viennot Bernaix fils, 1898. Noisette. Parentage: 'Gloire de Dijon' x ?. [Author cites information from different sources.]