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Susan Irvine's Rose Gardens
 
(1997)  Includes photo(s).
 
p89. [with Eve Murray, Langley Vale] …..There was a large, low bush, simply covered with clusters of the most cheerful bright pink flowers. “That’s ‘Cherub’,” said Eve. “Alister loved it.”. From the cuttings of ‘Cherub’, I had a hundred percent strike and when it bloomed in the garden at Bleak House the following year everyone loved it. But by then I had gleaned more scraps of information about Alister’s roses and ‘Cherub’ was described in 1923 by Brundrett, who marketed it, as “a very vigorous climber with profuse, non recurrent bloom”. Clearly this was not the low-growing, tireless performer I had got from Eve. I put it on ‘hold’, pending more information. But in the meantime it was in constant demand since it flowered incessantly. Finally I persuaded John Nieuwesteeg to propagate it for me and we called it simply “Not Cherub”!
[On page 94, Susan Irvine writes that this foundling turned out to be ‘Suitor’.]
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p201 ……At the top of these steps, I planted on each side one of the pencil pines known as ‘Skyrocket’, with attractive blue foliage. Their tall straight lines are a valuable contrast to the foliage of the other shrubs and the roses. Outside each of these, and on the same level, is a huge, free-standing bush of Alister Clark’s great rambler ‘Cherub’. These two bushes cover themselves with a dense mass of tiny semi-double pink and white roses for several weeks in early summer.

p213 ….Since this [fence] had to be clad, the Alister Clark climbers and ramblers seemed a logical choice. First ‘Cherub’ and ‘Gladsome’ because of their vigour. Little ‘Cherub’ looks like Dresden china and is almost indestructible. I had found it first – a huge mound of it – at the National Trust property, Clarendon, near Evandale in Tasmania. Nestled in a corner of the back garden where two walls meet, it was at least three metres high and equally wide. I had to employ all my powers of persuasion to coax three ten-centimetre pieces from the curator, a dour but indecisive soul who was reluctant to allow even the smallest particle of the Trusts’s property out of her hands. The day I reached home, John called in. He suggested I plant two of the cuttings, and he would make three buds from the third. My cuttings did grow, but John’s budded plants reached maturity much faster and by the following winter were sturdy plants. Later we were sent budwood purporting to be ‘Cherub’ from Trevor Nottle in South Australia. It was identical to our own. And later still we found it again in Dame Nellie Melba’s old garden.

p226 colour picture

p247 Cherub – A vigorous rambling rose. small pale pink blooms in huge clusters. Spring.

p251. Cherub – Very vigorous rambler. 1923. ‘Claire Jacquier’ seedling. Small, semi-double, cupped, pink blooms in big clusters. Spring only.
(1997)  Includes photo(s).
 
p107 Cicely Lascelles came, [into Susan’s garden] also well into her eighties. She brought me a little plant of the rose named after her – a warm pink, semi-single climber which flowers intermittently right through summer and autumn. Cicely Lascelles was a great golfer and Alister had been a foundation member of Royal Melbourne Golf Club, so it is very appropriate that this year, 1991, two plants of the ‘Cicely Lascelles’ rose have been planted in the gardens there.

p199 ....so just a little further along the fence I planted ‘Cicely Lascelles’ who goes steadily on through the summer.

p226 picture

p247 ‘Cicely Lascelles’ – Climber. Clear pink, semi-double blooms, scented. Very recurrent.

p251 ‘Cicely Lascelles’ Climbing H.T. 1937. ‘Frau Oberhofgartner Singer’ x ‘Scorcher’ (one of Clark’s). Large, semi-double, open, pink blooms of great beauty borne abundantly from spring to autumn. Our plant came from Cicely Lascelles herself. This rose has been planted now at Royal Melbourne Golf Club as she was a great golfer.
(1997)  Page(s) 231.  
 
…. ‘Claret Cup’ which is dark red with a white eye…..
(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].
(1997)  Includes photo(s).
 
p214 ‘Countess of Stradbroke’ had never been quite out of circulation. She turned up in various places. A great double deep red fragrant climber, she was hailed in the American Rose Annual of 1939 as “probably the finest climbing rose in the world”. The Countess may not be able to defend that title today, but she is undoubtedly worth a place in the garden.

p226. Picture. Countess of Stradbroke.

p251 Countess of Stradbroke – Climbing H.T. 1928. ‘Walter Clark’ x unnamed variety. Dark, glowing crimson, double blooms highly scented and very recurrent. Described in American Rose Annual of 1939 as “probably the finest climbing rose in the world.”
 
(1997)  Includes photo(s).
 
p204. ….For it is with the second generation bred from R. gigantea that his success was achieved. The first generation crosses – …….and Courier – glorious as they are, and worthy of a place in any large garden – bloom only in the spring.

p214 ‘Courier’ and ‘Tonner’s Fancy’ are both still flourishing at Glenara. ‘Courier’ for want of more adequate support, has entwined herself round two or three other climbers which were in a similar predicament.

p226. Picture

p251. Courier – 1930. Probably R. gigantea x ‘A. Joseph’. Blooms palest pink on white ground borne in clusters on a vigorous climbing plant, spring. Still at Glenara.
(1997)  Page(s) 232.  
 
....from Myrtle Robertson, too, comes ‘Cousin Essie’ a seedling from Riethmuller’s ‘Honeyflow’. This makes her second generation Australian. Her pale pink buds open to white and the blooms, like those of ‘Honeyflow’ and ‘Carabella’ are borne in huge clusters. If given room, she will grow into a large attractive shrub which is almost perpetually in flower.
 
(1997)  Includes photo(s).
 
p227. Picture. Cracker.

p253 Cracker – This little rose was found in a garden previously owned by Marjory Palmer who had spent a good deal of her life at Dalvuii. She planted a rose garden at Terang which still has a number of Alister’s roses in it ..... This rose is planted as a hedge at the back of the rose garden. It fits the description of ‘Cracker’, which was advertised as a hedge rose, but proof is needed.
(1997)  
 
p35 Picture. ‘Daydream’ not pliable enough for a maypole....

p55 ‘Daydream’s’ canes were not sufficiently pliable.....

p95 I could not now plant a garden without ‘Daydream’ (which Alister himself likened to a waterlily).

p198 After weeks of indecision I decided on three Alister Clark roses – not out of any misplaced patriotism, but because they best met my requirements ‘Daydream’ is one of the loveliest climbers I know – pale pink and single and crowned with golden stamens. ‘Gwen Nash’ is similar but a slightly deeper shade of pink..... It is thought that ‘Gwen Nash’ may be one of the parents of ‘Daydream’, but this is still in the realm of the uncertain. All.... are recurrent.

p226 Picture. 'Daydream'.

p247 ‘Daydream’ – Shrub-climber. Softest pink, single blooms. Recurrent.

p251 ‘Daydream’ – Climber or pillar rose. 1925. Probably ‘Souvenir de Gustav Prat’ x ‘Rosy Morn’ or ‘Gwen Nash’ (both Clark roses). Pale pink, single blooms with golden stamens, borne recurrently. Clark likened it to a waterlily. Still growing at Glenara. An outstanding climbing rose.
(1997)  Page(s) 254.  
 
Hugh Dettman lived in Kyneton….. in his now-neglected garden.
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