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The Sacramento Historic Cemetery & Historic Rose Garden Open Garden Sale. April 20, 2013.
“Old Town Novato” (Found Rose, Probable Hybrid Perpetual, Discovered by Cassandra Bernstein, 2003. very full (80 - 110 petals) VERY fragrant blooms, from rich fuchsia or magenta to deep pink sport a lighter reverse. The contrast provides additional depth to blooms sporting a button-eye, with a flat to cupped, old - fashioned, quartered, reflexed bloom form. This prolific bloomer flowers in successive flushes throughout the season, blooms appearing in both small and large clusters, and often distinguished by medium-long, very decorative sepals. Cass believes “OTN” to be identical in growth habit, cane color and texture, and armature to an earlier Found rose “Jay’s Hudson Perpetual”, as grown in the Historic Rose Garden of the Sacramento Old City Cemetery. In my coastal garden, “Old Town Novato” is astonishingly disease-resisant. Its good health makes it a wonderful substitute for the similarly-colored Bourbon, ‘Mme. Isaac Pereire,’ which can be subject to fungal disease