Article (newspaper)  (Feb 2015)  Page(s) 2.  Includes photo(s).
 
Patricia Routley: Noelene Drage was instrumental in saving Araluen Park, lobbying politicians and even mortgaging her house to put a deposit down on the Araluen land to convince the Government of the time to finally buy the property. She was also a truly wonderful president of Heritage Roses in Australia during 1996-1997. She was a calming influence, good at working behind the scenes, delegating and just “being there”. I recall the umpteen times she would open her house for yet another Heritage Roses afternoon gathering, never complaining about the people traipsing mud in on the white carpet; the big thick soups she made to feed us and so many other things she did to encourage us to grow old roses. I got the message, well and truly. In 1999 she posted me down a package containing cuttings of the charming little pink hybrid tea Picture. (Interestingly she wrote in 1995 “Last October I found a quartered, deep claret-coloured sport on ‘Picture’.”) I put ‘Picture’ in the Great Southern garden near the karri’s and it just existed there for eight years until I moved it in 2007 to a more congenial home in the Rosary garden. It has done better there and I have seen some perfect pictures of ‘Picture’. Co-incidentally a year later I planted ‘Rosenelfe’ alongside. This 1939 floribunda, is supposed to be a smaller, but a very similar rose to ‘Picture” with a little more colour and carried in more open trusses. I am sorry that plant of ‘Rosenelfe’ later died. Sam McGredy III in Ireland bred ‘Picture’ sometime prior to 1929. Unfortunately no parentage has ever been listed so we don’t know where such a sweet bloom came from. ‘Picture’ is a neat rose, a dainty bloom and a small bush to match. It is a uniform colour of clear rose pink, warmed with soft salmon rose. An immaculate, perfectly formed, rounded and imbricated, small to medium-sized bloom with 25 delicately pointed petals that give it a most refined shape. The blooms eventually end up being rather flat when fully open. Sadly, there is little fragrance but it doesn’t mind rain. There are stiff stems of good length holding the blooms erect and it is an ideal rose to pick as it opens beautifully in water and has good lasting qualities. The foliage seems different on this rose. It is rather dense and a dull grayish green and the leaves are large and orbicular. (Many of the older HT’s seem to have this round foliage). The bush is compact and low growing, ideal for the front of a bed. In a normal garden (mine is not normal!) ‘Picture’ is among the earliest of the hybrid teas and also the last to be in bloom. Apart from its lack of scent, it sounds a great little rose doesn’t it? But even though gardeners loved it, they always thought their blooms were too small to win any prize and never exhibited it and so it never received any great honour. Or if they did exhibit, the judge was an ignoramus who was looking for a bigger bloom. ‘Picture’ is utterly charming, but an inherently small and dainty bloom.

Book  (1996)  Page(s) 65.  
 
Picture Large-flowered (Hybrid Tea) bush. Description... double rose pink flowers, 3 in (8 cm) across...

Book  (1995)  Page(s) 94.  
 
Noeline Drage, Boya, W.A. ….then last October I found a quartered, deep claret coloured sport on ‘Picture’ (McGredy 1932) her of the divine formation and delicately pointed petals like pixie ears. The sport has still be be grown on, but watch this space!

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 447.  
 
Picture Hybrid Tea, light pink, 1932, McGredy. Description.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 205.  Includes photo(s).
 
Picture Large-flowered hybrid tea. Parentage: unknown. Northern Ireland 1932. Description and cultivation. Flowers: a clear pink with scrolled petals when half open...

Book  (May 1992)  Page(s) 398-399.  Includes photo(s).
 
Picture Hybrid Tea. McGredy (UK) 1932... clear pink...

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 30.  
 
Picture (Bush) (Hybrid Tea) Not a large rose by H.T. standards but shapely and rich in colour, being clear pink with deeper shadings. Upright, compact habit. Scented. 1932. (C) 3 x 3’.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 88.  
 
Picture  One of the best loved pink roses from its introduction in 1932, until it began to lose its constitution around 1960. 'Picture 'was one of the first salvage operations which were to occur in the National Rose Society's Trial Ground. Sam McGredy, having entered it in the trials, subsequently judged it a failure by its performance at home In Portadown; when the judges approved it he had none left, but had to apply to Haywards Heath for stock from his trial plants. This is by no means a rare occurrence, proving that two expert opinions may be at variance, in this case those of breeder and judges.....'Picture' was a neat little flower, rose pink, with fairly short petals, a perfect buttonhole rose. It was an excellent bedding rose from its compact and even growth, and its tendency to flower early.

Book  (1973)  Page(s) 76.  
 
Mr. Aves, South Africa. …As for size, the judge must know his varieties. You would not expect a massive bloom from ‘Picture’.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 153.  
 
Picture 1932 Sam McGredy writes: Small, clear rose-pink hybrid tea. Never received any great honour, although it has been one of our most successful roses.