Book  (2012)  Page(s) 52.  Includes photo(s).
 
'Charlotte Kemp' is a classic Ken Nobbs rambler, from the stable of 'Thornfree Wonder' and 'Veilchenblau'. Bred in 1985 it is thornless, free flowering and healthy. The blooms are single, soft violet-purple, slightly incurved, and hang in clusters on a vigorous rambler. The blooms are small, barely 6 centimetres in diameter, with five to seven blooms per cluster. Ken describes the colour as 'wild violet' on his registration form. Its growth is lax with foliage of mid-green. It is a vigorous, and healthy rose - one of six that we grow in our smaller garden at our historic house in Otaki. 'Charlotte Kemp' is probably unavailable outside New Zealand, but it's one of several Ken Nobbs' roses that grow at the Trinity Farm Nursery and Garden in Otaki as part of the conservation of our heritage and the heritage of roses.

Book  (2007)  Page(s) 84.  
 
'Charlotte Kemp'. HWich, m. Nobbs; int in 1997

Magazine  (2007)  Page(s) 45. Vol 21, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Lloyd Chapman. The Best of Ken Nobbs Roses.
'Charlotte Kemp' is a deep dark purple with small-medium single blooms produced in clusters. There is a slight white centre, amid golden stamens. Blooms exhibit a grey tinge as they age. Once-flowering, this rose is totally thornless and capable of growing to 3 metres. Growth habit is typically Multiflora Rambler. Nobbs classifies it as a Climbing Polyantha Rambler, and while the colour is a brilliant purple violet, it has no fragrance and few hips. Both the above roses ['Charlotte Kemp' and 'Mary Davis'] were produced in 1984. On his International Registration form Nobbs gives the breeding as 'Thornfree Wonder' x 'Veilchenblau'. 'Thornfree Wonder' is another 'Tausendschon' seedling.

Newsletter  (1988)  Page(s) 10-17. Vol 9, No. 1.  
 
The Kemp family descended from James and Charlotte Kemp who moved into, and finally bought, the Butler house in 1834.....

Newsletter  (1987)  Page(s) 18-20. Vol 8, No. 3.  
 
Instead of just giving these seedling roses numbers to identify them I am naming them provisionally after the pioneer women who came to New Zealand with the Christian Gospel from 1814 on. New Zealand's oldest garden is at Kemp House, Kerikeri, and the New Zealand Historic Places Trust now have memorial rambler roses named for the four who occupied Kemp House before James and Charlotte Kemp moved in about 1832....

Newsletter  (1986)  Page(s) 18-23. Vol 7, No. 3.  
 
'Charlotte Kemp' [named after] (1819, Mrs. James Kemp). Purple violet (80b). Flower 6cm. 5 plus blooms per cluster. 5 petals. November to December. 'Thornfree Wonder' x 'Veilchenblau'.