'VIRclementina' rose Description
HelpMeFind's future is in your hands - Please do not take this unique resource for granted.
Your support of HelpMeFind is urgently needed. HelpMeFind, like all websites, needs funding to survive. We have set a premium-membership yearly subscription amount as low as possible to make user-community funding viable.
We are grateful to the many members who have signed up so far, but the number of premium-membership members remains too small for us to sustain the current support and development level. If you value HelpMeFind and want to see it continue we need your support too.
Yearly membership is only $2.00 per month and adds a host of additional features, and numerous planned enhancements, to take full advantage of the power and convenience of HelpMeFind. Click here to start your premium membership..
We of course also welcome donations of any amount. Click here to make a donation. Donations of $24 or more receive a thank-you gift of a 1-year premium membership.
As far as we have come, we feel HelpMeFind is still in its infancy. With your support we have so much more to accomplish.
Photo courtesy of Kim Rupert
Bloom:
Light pink, white center. Mild fragrance. up to 5 petals. Average diameter 2.5". Small to medium, single (4-8 petals), cupped-to-flat, expanded , open bloom form. Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season. Small buds.
Habit:
Medium, bushy, few or no prickles/thorns. Medium, glossy, dark green foliage.
Height: 4' to 5' (120 to 150cm).
Breeder's notes:
This China/Tea seedling of 2010, a shrub, in pink and white, single flowers with 2 ½ inch diameter, very few prickles and a gentle soft fragrance , and lovely foliage - narrow, long, glossy, dark green, has been growing in a huge terracotta pot in our garden , situated in a position that has us walk past it many times in a day. Viru was always very fond of this rose, observing its growth over many years.
It has a very traditional lineage—that great historic China with the evocative name’Rose of the Temple of Ten Thousand Camellias’, our own Tea rose ‘Faith Whittlesey’ ( ‘Reve d’Or’ x ‘Echo’ x R.gigantea) and the Italian bred ‘Clementina Carbonieri’.
In April 2024, a few months after Viru’s unexpected and sudden passing, our friend Katsuhiko Maebara who has the Dreams of India Garden within the Kusabue no Oka Heritage Rose Garden in Sakura near Tokyo, wrote to me that he would like to honour his beloved friend Viru by creating another garden with as many as possible of Viru’s roses, in an island named Shodoshima off the coast of southern Japan, where an industrialist Mr Kasai, who has a hotel resort and big garden, had shown keen interest. This island has a Mediterranean climate and grows olives on a large scale.
Mr Kasai, as I came to know him, is someone steeped in traditional values , attuned with nature , whose buildings are all made with natural materials- stone, wood, water, who has allowed most of the island to be untouched – rocky, forested, leading to the sea. He believes in Fueki-ryuko, that which is eternal and immutable, which must remain unchanged even as the world changes (ryuko) but allowing for some necessary inevitable transitory changes (fueki).
I felt that this rose which is the child of very heritage roses, from China, India and Italy, and harking back to France (Reve d’Or) and Germany (Echo), was most appropriate to endorse the qualities Mr Kasai embodies. And he wholeheartedly agreed - I had sent him some of our Vir-coded seedlings to choose from and he unerringly chose this single, simple natural looking rose.
Foliage : narrow, long, glossy, dark green
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
|
