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Thornless rose ID
Sorry I can't show you a photograph, but yesterday in the well-kept
but still otherwise flowerless rose garden at Warwick Castle I saw a medium-tall rose in full flower rambling through some sort of cherry tree. It had clusters of one-inch-wide scentless fully double rosette blooms in a deep cream shade. The small foliage was of a fresh green colour; and the plant was completely thornless. A passing gardener didn't know what it was. A variety of R. banksiae, perhaps? Is R.banksiae thornless, or does it come in thornless varieties? Or what? (The said gardener was chatty, and recounted how when one visitor had asked him for a cutting of something, he'd replied "Of course, madam! Shall we use the secateurs you've got in your bag?" I truthfully swore I didn't have so much as a Swiss Army knife about me, but my daughter rather let the side down by saying "That's not like him!") -- Mike. |
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Thornless rose ID
On Tue, 3 May 2011 12:45:11 +0100, Sacha wrote:
On 2011-05-02 20:46:38 +0100, Mike Lyle said: Sorry I can't show you a photograph, but yesterday in the well-kept but still otherwise flowerless rose garden at Warwick Castle I saw a medium-tall rose in full flower rambling through some sort of cherry tree. It had clusters of one-inch-wide scentless fully double rosette blooms in a deep cream shade. The small foliage was of a fresh green colour; and the plant was completely thornless. A passing gardener didn't know what it was. A variety of R. banksiae, perhaps? Is R.banksiae thornless, or does it come in thornless varieties? Or what? (The said gardener was chatty, and recounted how when one visitor had asked him for a cutting of something, he'd replied "Of course, madam! Shall we use the secateurs you've got in your bag?" I truthfully swore I didn't have so much as a Swiss Army knife about me, but my daughter rather let the side down by saying "That's not like him!") We have R. banksiae lutea growing and flowering like mad outside our bedroom atm but that's very definitely yellow and so is the R. banksiae lutescens which we have on a pole, struggling to recover from its winter bashing and flowering sparsely. But there's Rosa banksiae alba plena which is a sort of creamy white double flower and Rosa banksiae normalis but that's single flowered and slightly scented. Thanks, Sacha and Charlie. A banksiae var or hybrid, then: I assume the thornlessness is normal, as neither of you remarked on it. Valuable to have such an early profuse-flowering rose, scent or no scent. -- Mike. |
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Thornless rose ID
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says... On Tue, 3 May 2011 12:45:11 +0100, Sacha wrote: On 2011-05-02 20:46:38 +0100, Mike Lyle said: Sorry I can't show you a photograph, but yesterday in the well-kept but still otherwise flowerless rose garden at Warwick Castle I saw a medium-tall rose in full flower rambling through some sort of cherry tree. It had clusters of one-inch-wide scentless fully double rosette blooms in a deep cream shade. The small foliage was of a fresh green colour; and the plant was completely thornless. A passing gardener didn't know what it was. A variety of R. banksiae, perhaps? Is R.banksiae thornless, or does it come in thornless varieties? Or what? (The said gardener was chatty, and recounted how when one visitor had asked him for a cutting of something, he'd replied "Of course, madam! Shall we use the secateurs you've got in your bag?" I truthfully swore I didn't have so much as a Swiss Army knife about me, but my daughter rather let the side down by saying "That's not like him!") We have R. banksiae lutea growing and flowering like mad outside our bedroom atm but that's very definitely yellow and so is the R. banksiae lutescens which we have on a pole, struggling to recover from its winter bashing and flowering sparsely. But there's Rosa banksiae alba plena which is a sort of creamy white double flower and Rosa banksiae normalis but that's single flowered and slightly scented. Thanks, Sacha and Charlie. A banksiae var or hybrid, then: I assume the thornlessness is normal, as neither of you remarked on it. Valuable to have such an early profuse-flowering rose, scent or no scent. It is indeed a lovely thing and pretty much evergreen as well as thornless, but before you think it has no faults I seem to remember in the Guiness book of records under "worlds largest rose" that it was a banksiae rose in Arizona! -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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