Booklet  (2022)  Page(s) 62-63.  Includes photo(s).
 
"Rose Hedge Cottage Pink"

Website/Catalog  (21 May 2020)  
 
Rose Hedge cottage pink  Variable, whitish flesh, buff, pale pink, bright rose-pink

Magazine  (Dec 2019)  Page(s) 31. Vol 41, No. 4.  Includes photo(s).
 
Margaret Furness.  Mystery Teas in Australia.
Rose Hedge Cottage Pink” syn. “Mrs Val Nash’s”. Collected WA.  Constant flowering. The blooms can be single or in clusters. Different coloured flowers may be produced at the same time, from deep pink to almost white. The flowers are often barely double, but the petal count can increase, and the form varies. The flowers have a strong sharp sweet Tea scent. The hips are globular, orange. Bush width 2 - 6m depending on growing conditions.

Book  (2011)  Page(s) 116.  Includes photo(s).
 
Hillary Merrifield. Mystery Tea roses in Australia. ....."Rose Hedge Cottage Pink", which apart from its glandular pedicels is similar to "Georgetown Tea" seen at Vintage Gardens in California in 2005.

Photo caption. The "Rose Hedge Cottage Pink" found in Western Australia is similar to a rose seen labeled as "Georgetown Tea" in California [photo by Lynne Chapman].

Article (newspaper)  (Jan 2010)  Page(s) 2.  Includes photo(s).
 
Patricia Routley: Once upon a time before the world went mad and I had time and energy, I used to travel a bit looking for old roses. Ten years ago, I called into the Nannup Tourist Bureau and asked them were there any properties with old roses in their shire. "Yes" they said "Mrs. Nash has a few". They rang her for me and with their directions, I drove out to meet the kind lady who took me to the neighbouring property the Nash’s had bought in 1965. There we saw signs of a once beautiful garden with finely-built stone terraced walls holding the garden beds on the gentle slope. The house had long gone and the cows had free reign over what remained of the garden. There were very few roses left, some rootstock roses, the feral Rosa eglanteria in the creek bed below, and this large-flowered pink rose growing up a fruit tree. At the time it seemed a climber and it is obviously a long-lived rose and a survivor. The rose later struck well for me and I shared around the excess and put in two plants of it and gave the rose the temporary study name of “Mrs. Val Nash”. After nine years of fevered flicking through pages and typing my fingers to the bone investigating lots of roses, I still don’t have a clue as to what it is. It seems to have a lot of tea blood in it, but flowers in December, which is much later than the normal tea rose and the leaves are a deeper green than a tea. In 2003 it was the star of the garden all through hot February. The new stems are purple with a plum-type bloom on its surface than can be rubbed off. Occasionally the outer petals of the 8-10cm flower appear white and if the weather is very wet, the flowers can remind one of a load of wet nappies hanging out to dry. One of its signature traits is a rough glandular pedicel. The colour, over and under, is pink that very occasionally seems to have a hint of salmon in it. At most other times, the prevailing colour is a lilac pink. The petals are veined and strongly textured reminding me of some crepe material. Time has proved this one to be an extremely vigorous rose. After months of the car side being scraped, it was either prune them or put a bend in the road. I chose the easier way and pruned them both down to 18 inches and you can’t do that to a tea rose and get away with it. The rose had layered itself in six places and these new 1m-high plants were dug and potted up. I have two spares if the town of Northcliffe would like to share in this rose – it is a beauty. I wish I knew just what it is. Have a further look at it on http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.46489

Book  (2008)  Page(s) 200.  Includes photo(s).
 
"Rose Hedge Cottage Pink". Also known in Australia as "Marie's Pink Tea, "Val Nash's Tea".....
Bud shape and colour: Large, wide-based, plump. pointed, colour variable (whitish flesh, buff, pale pink, bright rose-pink); washed and veined carmine.
Flower colour: variable, different-coloured flowers on bush at same time, even in same cluster (bright rose-pink, pale pink, flesh, white), a mauve tone develops with age, nubs yellowish buff, most petal reverses have carmine veining......Fragrance strong, sharp,  sweet Tea with spicy notes......elliptical with larger terminal leaf.