'S N. 56' rose Description
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).
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