It gets infected early and stays spotty and mostly defoliated.

It did form OP hips (around 10% of blooms went to hip), it was surrounded by various diploids (polys, chinas, rugosas), usually 1 or 2 per hip which may be of interest to someone.

Pollen diameter measurements would suggest that Broadlands is diploid. Couldn't find any grains that exceeded 34 microns.

not very helpful... from the Australia PBR document:

"Origin and Breeding Controlled pollination: seed parent ‘Unnamed variety’ by pollen parent ‘Unnamed variety’ from breeder’s private collection of germplasm."

ref: http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/pbr_db/docs/1997042.doc

June 1, 2010: ~CREME BRULEE~ is one sale at RITE AID chain stores in NorCAL for $6.99. It does have many roses that are tiny, and they cascade nicely over the side of the pot. The yellow stamen is prominent inside the tiny, many-rounded petals! The roses begin as a gold yellow, and then fade to a warm ivory. . . Oh, Brulee ! !