Newsletter  (2019)  Page(s) Nr. 4, p. 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
Chris Warner however has given me information about two new Rambling Roses he thinks worthy of a mention. He is usually known for his world-famous Patio roses but tells me he did a little breeding with rambling roses a few years ago. He raised an orange-salmon pink Rambler as the picture shows about 15 years ago. He has never released it and it has been growing on his nursery ever since. The seed parent was Mary Sumner with pollen from Kiftsgate he says it is very healthy with shiny foliage and fragrant too. It is growing through a holly tree on his nursery and has reached twenty-five feet in height. He had previously tried to hybridise this colour into ramblers by using a chance seedling found at Picton Castle. It was named Leo’s Eye and is an orange pink shade, but he found it to be of poor health, so he discarded it and made the deliberate cross. Leo’s Eye is still listed in specialist catalogues but a new healthy Rambling Rose in this shade should surely be worth growing