On 2013-11-14 16:41:50 +0000, Charlie Pridham said:

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2013-11-13 22:50:19 +0000, Bob Hobden said:

"sacha" wrote

I know this is one of those "how long is a piece of string?" questions
but I'd really like to id a rose we put up along a post and some rope
several years ago. There are thousands of roses so I know the chances
are slight. The buds are small and yellow at the base, whiter at the
tips, opening to rather blowsy but fairly small white flowers. It
flowers on and on and on.

Two questions... Is it a large plant or quite small for a climber?
Do some flowers have a pink petal or two in a pure white flower?

No pink, Bob and here, we've gotit to 10' up a pillar but then trained it
along some chain (used to be rope) It's forming arching branches and
could, I think probably go quite a bit taller in the right place. It
flowers generously and I've managed to get a photo today of the last two
very tatty blooms. Of all the hundreds of photos I've got of this garden,
that's probably the one place I hadn't done! Here's the photo but it's
rather more white than it appears
http://www.flickr.com/photos/93694401@N03/10855615315/
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Leaves look wichuriana type so maybe La Perle I am assuming not Alberic
Barbier as that is so well known you have probably ruled it out

You and Spider are right! Alberic Barbier it is. I've never grown it
anywhere before and Ray is very iffy about roses in the wet SW,
thinking them all too easily attacked by nasties. Thank you both so
much. I'm delighted I've got its name. It won't get a chance to go its
full height because it gets tied in along the anchor chain that
replaced the rope once it rotted and broke. I wouldn't be allowed to
do it but I'd love to develop a rose garden here in the Victorian
manner - out of sight of the house so that in winter, you don't look at
bare sticks for several months.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
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