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"Clark's Pink" rose Reviews & Comments
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Does anybody have anything to add on "Clark's Tea"? It has been around now for about 13 years.
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Patricia
Have uploaded a photo of the one we purchased from Mistydowns last year. It is growing quite well without to many issues.
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I don't know anything about "Clark's Tea", but have seen a rose named
"Clark [or Clark's] Pink" (as sold by Melville Nurseries in the past).
There are several plants of this rose well established at Araluen Botanic Park.
It is a once-blooming climbing rose a little like a vigorous, prickly, non-recurrent 'Marie Nabonnand'.
The bloom colour is a dark reddish pink.
If "Clark's Tea" is a paler pink shrub rose, "Clark Pink" isn't a synonym.
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Hmm…. two roses: “Clark’s Tea” Tea - and “Clark Pink” Hybrid tea.
I understand that the rose that came from Mistydowns as “Clark’s Tea” and planted in 2012 at Rustons, has died. Gary, did your light pink rose come as “Clark’s Tea” or “Clark Pink”?
Does anybody else grow “Clark’s Tea” from Mistydowns. I am not sure that we are ever going to solve this, so for the moment I have made “Clark’s Tea” a hidden synonym for “Clark Pink”.
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Patricia and Billy
The rose was purchased as "Clark's Tea". It is definitely not a once bloomer as it has had flowers on it more or less continuously since we planted it in September. I will take a photo of the shrub and post it. Very Tea/Hybrid Tea looking (probably more the latter) and not a climber at all.
Gary
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Very much look forward to your photos of the shrub.
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Patricia
Photo of shrub uploaded today. The more I look at it the more it reminds me of the way "Rose Hedge Cottage Pink" grow up here. When young they tend to spread out low and then up.
Gary
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Thank you Gary. I'll separate the two roses later today.
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Gary - looking at your photos it feels as though I should know where I've seen it before - there's something awfully familiar about it, but the cogs haven't dropped into place yet.
Would you mind posting more photos as the seasons roll by?
I'll take some photos of the blooms of "Clark Pink" at Araluen next spring.
They have the "mucronate petal apex" like 'Marie Nabonnand' / 'Philippe Pétain' / "Beales' Monsieur Tillier" - many of the petals end with a little point like a " } " bracket.
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Billy
By pure chance I planted a Mystery Cream Tea beside the Clarke's Pink and they are very similar and it may be that I received a Mystery Cream Tea and not a Clarke's Pink Tea.
I will keep an eye on them and see if they are the same.
Gary
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