Book  (2001)  Page(s) 49.  
 
Lilia Weatherly, Tasmania. ‘Light Touch’ (Weatherly) Shrub. ‘Cousin Essie’ seedling. This is another large shrub which grows to about three metres high and wide. The coppery buds open to apricot-to-pink semi-double flowers carried in large clusters. It flowers for a large part of the year. The foliage is very glossy and disease resistant.

Book  (1999)  Page(s) 54.  
 
‘Light Touch’ (PROcef) (PBR). Weatherly, Australia, 1997. Shrub. Apricot/pink. [available from] Stoneman’s, Stratford.

Book  (1998)  Page(s) 68.  
 
New Rose Registrations. ‘Light Touch’ S. Lilia Weatherly. Year of Registration 1996.

Book  (1998)  Page(s) 54.  
 
Light Touch Shrub, pink, yellow base, reverse lighter pink, pale yellow base, 1997; 'Cousin Essie' x Open Pollination; Weatherly, Lilia. Description...

Magazine  (Oct 1997)  Page(s) 114.  Includes photo(s).
 
Tony Fawcett. If you are seeking a stylish new rose that looks breathtaking, boasts good disease resistance and is nearly thornless, then consider ‘Light Touch’. Produced by Hobart rose breeder Lilia Weatherly (see our story on page 32), it is a shrub rose growing to 2m high and wide, and has been selected as the Rose of the year by the Rose and Fruit Tree Group. ‘Light Touch’ has showy coppery buds and according to Lilia, flowers with about 20 petals in soft shades of apricot and pink with a light perfume. “The flowers are carried on florescences at the end of the stems over a long period, especially if the dead flowers are removed,” she says. “Later it will produce a lot of small red hips.” Lilia named the rose after a line often used by England actor Noel Coward. When asked about his aspirations for the future, the actor said he hoped to keep “the light touch”. He subsequently used the phrase as a toast in several of his plays. “I think, if it gets a chance, it may be one of the stayers, particularly as it is so disease-free and nearly thornless,” says the breeder. ‘Light Touch’ is a third generation Australian-bred rose.

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 61.  
 
Lilia Weatherly, Tasmania. My own seedling ‘CE/500’, S, pb, 1997, came from ‘Cousin Essie’ (Myrtle Robertson) which in turn was a seedling of ‘Honey Flow’, F. pb, 1957, Riethmuller. It is therefore a third generation Australian rose. ‘CE/500’ flowers almost all the time although its Spring flush is greater than at other times. Its buds are coppery, opening pink, with flowers in clusters. Its leaflets are long and narrow and very glossy and seldom show any diseases. It is a tall shrub and almost thornless except for a few slight thorns on the petioles.

Magazine  (Sep 1996)  Page(s) 46.  Includes photo(s).
 
Susan Irvine. In Tasmania, Lilia Weatherly, with a rambling country garden and an enormous collection of old and modern roses, has registered a seedling from the creamy-white cluster-flowered rose ‘Cousin Essie’ itself a seedling from ‘Honey Flow’ bred in Sydney in 1957 by Riethmuller, one of Australia’s most successful hybridisers. Lilia is thrilled with this delightful little salmon pink shrub rose, which has not yet received a name and is known by its owner simply as ‘C.E.500’.