|
|
Jon_in_Wessex 
-
-
|
Thank you so much for this photo! This is stunning. I've never seen anything like it.
|
REPLY
|
|
You are very welcome!
|
REPLY
|
-
-
|
Your rose fits the description of carmine-pink edges. Would you look at my photos scattered through the Lady Waterlow file, and comment on whether you think ours is correct, please?
|
REPLY
|
|
Hello Margaret. I agree that your rose seems too apricot-y - a shade that mine never has. At most it is a bit salmony at the base. The foliage also feels wrong - leaves on mine are noticeably large, rather thin, not very shiny, quite wavy, not typically HT'ish. Several other photos on the page seem much too full and uniformly coloured. Mine was budded from Graham Thomas's plant, and is the one commonly seen in the UK. I don't have a note of where Mr Thomas obtained it, other than it being part of his original collection. I wouldn't dream of commenting on the likely correctness of his attribution!
Best wishes
Jon
|
REPLY
|
|
Thank you! I won't be popular with the people who collected it for us, from an old wall in the former colonial penal station at Pt Arthur. I've attached another photo, showing prickles. Also the ones I've removed from the Lady Waterlow file.
Looking at the photos on the hmf file, I'd think there were at least two roses using the name, apart from ours!
|
REPLY
|
|
Margaret, I would look across the ditch for help on 'Lady Waterlow'. I have an enduring memory of seeing a 'Lady Waterlow' at Sir Miles Warren's home 'Ohinetahi, near Christchurch, New Zealand on Nov 14, 2000. From that one sight of the rose, I have always wanted it my garden, but it never came my way unfortunately. I made no notes that day, but my memory tells me it was similar to the photos of 'Lady Waterlow' that AmiRoses has contributed.
I also saw another example at the ex home of Mrs. Janice Wallis in Wanaka on Nov 18, 2000. My notes on that day were: " 'Lady Waterlow'? yellow in the base and pink on the edge of the petals, big leaves, climbing up a tree."
I saw it again at the superb Jessie Calder garden where I made the beginner's-botany notes "pink, yellow in the base. the leaves are much wider at the pedicel end and triangle-shaped". (Well - I knew what I meant, then!)
|
REPLY
|
|
I'm told it was the rose that everyone at the Sangerhausen conference wanted to plant. Let's hope that many people who saw it or grow it will contribute photos, including of buds and prickles. And hips if any.
|
REPLY
|
-
-
|
I found my way over here today and felt like it was time for another comment. I truly love your garden Jon. To me it is all a garden should be.
|
REPLY
|
|
Jon’s garden photo of the excavation reiterates to me that alkaline gardens can really grow beautiful roses.
|
REPLY
|
|
Yes, 'gardening on chalk' is often written about in English books and I hoped that photo would explain what it means. There is a garden a few miles down the valley called Mottisfont that does it much better.
|
REPLY
|
|
Well, that's so nice to hear in this cold and wet Spring! May have to add a few more pictures in that case!
|
REPLY
|
-
-
|
Rearsby's Roses - who found and registered this rose - appear to have ceased trading. The only reference I can find to them is a planning application for re-development of their property.
My plant came from Lady Salisbury's garden in Dorset c. 1999, and I have not seen it for sale since (though 2 nurseries have it on their catalogue).
Both Gregg Lowery (Vintage Gardens) and David Stone (Mottisfont Abbey) have seen it in situ and are happy with the attribution. It is a hugely vigorous climber - doing for 'Ballerina' what the climbing form of 'Mlle Cecile Brunner' does for its namesake.
|
REPLY
|
|
