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'Dawson's Yellow Climber' rose References
Book (1999) Page(s) 22. Includes photo(s). ‘Dawson’s Yellow Climber’. 1994. Rose discovered in George’s garden following his death in 1991. Unknown breeding. Large Flowered Climbing rose. Double, fragrant, golden yellow flowers with reddish anthers, some pink in the bud, fully recurrent. Smooth, mid green foliage. Large thorns. Flower 27 petals, 110mm, singly. Climber 2.5m x 1m.
Website/Catalog (1997) Page(s) 8. ‘Dawson’s Yellow Climber’. Climber. Yellow blooms. Unreleased variety.
Book (1996) Page(s) 38. ‘Dawson’s Yellow Climber’. Dawson, Australia. pre 1990. Climber, yellow. [available from] Golden Vale.
Book (1992) Page(s) 132. Dawson's Yellow Climber. by Mr Ron Bell, S.M.A., A.R.A., Harkaway, Victoria Some years ago George Dawson, who has produced many beautiful roses asked me to display some blooms of a yellow climbing rose he had produced, at the spring show of The Rose Society of Victoria in the Melbourne Town Hall. It was a bright yellow colour and was also well formed and it made a lovely bunch. It attracted a lot of attention and one nurseryman came to me and asked me if he could introduce it. He lost interest however when I told him it was a climber. It does repeat flowering throughout the season and is something between a vigorous climber and a bush rose and it is very healthy. I asked George if he had given it a name but he said that he had not so there it grows in my garden under the name of ‘Dawson's Yellow Climber’. It is the first to flower every season and it has a perfume like a lot of his roses and it is crowded by a boysenberry bush which competes strongly with its growth. In spite of severe competition it continues to thrive and I will continue to grow it because it is well worth growing and it would be a pity if it was lost. George has hundreds of seedlings on his property and the vast majority have never been catalogued but they make a fine display and it is a pity more have not been distributed. When I asked him if he still had the yellow climber he was unsure so maybe I have the last surviving plant. It certainly is an endangered species.
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