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'Coconut Ice' rose References
Book  (2001)  Page(s) 111.  
 
Myrtle Robertson. During my time in East Maitland in the Hunter Valley Rose Society, three of us were very interested in hybridising, Marguerite Parkes, who has three roses registered and still selling. Wilga Abrahams, who died at the age of 50 when she was just beginning to produce some fine roses, and myself. We moved to Bellingen in January, 1977 taking along four seedling roses .... and ‘Coconut Ice’, both seedlings of ‘Honeyflow’
Book  (1997)  Page(s) 232.  
 
More recently Myrtle has bred a delicate pink cluster rose which she has called ‘Fairy Floss’ – tiny perfectly shaped roses in long sprays on a vigorous shrub.

[Note - 1999, June 13. Personal communication from Myrtle Robertson to Patricia Routley:
“When I found out there was already a rose called Fairy Floss, someone suggested I call my rose ‘Coconut Ice’. It is a bit like ‘Ballerina’ but the petals are more incurved. I still have the rose but have never registered it, only giving it to friends or folk who have requested cuttings].
Magazine  (1995)  
 
Heritage Roses in Australia - 2nd National Conference, Orange. Proceedings.
p101. Susan Irvine. Australian Bred Roses. Myrtle Robertson at Bellingen has gone on from here. .... and ‘Fairy Floss’ are also being registered and are available from Ian Kethel at Bellingen.
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