dave weil wrote:
Maybe this isn't all that unusual, but today I noticed a couple of
scattered pure white blooms amongst the pink.

Is this unusual? Should I call Ripley's Believe it or Not?
chuckle Is this a reversion to one of the ancestors?


http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ddweil2/FairyWhite.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ddweil2/FairyWhite1.jpg

And no, they aren't just bleached out blooms...

How neat! A white sport on The Fairy rose. I looked around to see if
sporting is reported or known for the Fairy rose, and found this essay
on the phenomenon by Paul Barden that I thought you might find interesting:

http://www.rdrop.com/~paul/main_october2002.html

Paul actually gives the name of a white sport of The Fairy rose as White
Lawrence Rose [Lawrenceana alba]. Are you going to propagate this
particular sport of The Fairy? It might be nice ... that one is very
pretty, and it will be nice to see if it turns out to be a climbing
white sport ... actually, one of those seems like ablushing pink and
the other seems to be white, at least on my monitor.

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Radika
California
USDA 9 / Sunset 15