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Margaret Furness 
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Thanks for the detail Darrell. Would you look at the photos of our found rose "Loveday", please, as it looks like a good match. It's so easy to dismiss every pink rambler as the ubiquitous Dorothy P.
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Oh Margaret! Why? because it's a beast?
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The property at Renmark (Ruston's) was on the market for 4 years, with prospective (but not eventual) buyers promising to sign the contract "next week", so it was neglected in that time. You should have seen how the bracteata in the photo spread along the cut-flower rose beds, following the irrigation lines.
You can't kill it with glyphos or blackberry spray, even when there's no risk of off-target damage.
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6 days ago by
Usami
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Margaret, may I ask for a comment on the "unpleasant fragrance", just wondering what it would be akin to. Call it morbid curiosity.
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I haven't grown it for over 30 years. There's one I can check in a few days' time.
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Is the identity of the rose(s) shown in the various photos certain? This is not what I would anticipate for a rose which was described early on as "deep cerise," "light red," "bright purplish red," or even just "cerise pink."
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Interesting that none of the references mention a white eye.
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13 days ago by
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I don't know it's provenance but if it's described as lighter than 'Nancy Hayward' and darker than 'Jessie Clark', and is clearly a Gigantea hybrid, it's probably right. I suspect that the earliest flowers in August/winter are more saturated in colour than the later ones. I haven't grown it but I have grown 'Jessie Clark' and its blooms faded quite quickly on the plant, so perhaps this is also what is showing up in the photos here.
The photo of 'Flying Colours' in the 2014 Mistydowns catalogue shows what could be described as a dark pink/cerise/light red flower and the photo in Peter Cox's book 'Australian Roses' is also a similar shade.
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30 NOV 06 by
lobo
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Where can this plant be purchased?
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en.rose.it has it! It's an Italian company, but if you're in the US, they do ship bareroot roses to the US if you contact them in advance.
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Doesn't that still require postentry quarantine? That's a huge no for me, if so.
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They were ignoring those rules. A few shipments got through though.
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Ignoring international quarantine is also a huge no.
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