Rose Keepers Data Base

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Damo, on average how old would the roses you have be, some interesting one's in this list alone, and from your entry there are more to come, Regards David.

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Damo, is budwood a possibility, down the track

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This is it. They are a pretty mixed bag so I have just listed them roughly alphabetically .

Adolf Horstman
Abraham Darby
Angel Face
A Shropshire Lad
Anne Harkness
Apricot Nectar
Albertine
Anne Marie Treschlin
Arianna
Anne Boleyn
Apricot Gem
Avon
Athena
Abracadabra
Augusta Luise
Anna Louise

Bewitched
Buff Beauty
Bettina
Bronze Masterpiece
Bonica
Baronne E. de Rothschild
Ballerina
Bridal Shower
Betty Boop
Botany Bay
Best Friend
Blossom Time
Benjamin Britten
Blackberry Nip
Black Ice

Carina
Chicago Peace
Champagne
Charles de Gaulle
Claire Matin
Charles Austin
Claire Rose
Cressida
Carla
Crepuscle
Colorama
Cecile Brunner
Cream Delight
Cymbeline
Candy Stripe
China Doll
Circus
Copper Gem
Cannes Festival
Comtesse Vandal
Crocus Rose
Charles Darwin
Citron-Fraise


Double Delight
Dr A. J. Verhage
Duet
Dr Huey
Diamond Jubilee
Dearest
Duchesse de Brabant
Dapple Dawn
Desert Island
Darcy Bussell
Daybreaker

Esmeralda
Europeana
Elizabeth of Glamis
Ellen
Eiffel Tower
Elina
Emmanuel
Eglantyne
Evelyn
Ebb Tide

Flamingo
Fragrant Plum
Fritz Nobis
Felicia
French Lace
Friesa
Fruitee
Fabulous
Fragrant Delight
First Prize
Fisherman's Friend
Falstaff
Flowercarpet Yellow

Golden Masterpiece
Gold Medal
Gruss en Aachen
Gold Bunny
Graham Thomas
Glamis Castle
Golden Showers
Golden Celebration
Gerber Engel
Grace

Hannah Gordon
Helen Traubel
Hero
Hot Chocolate
Helmut Schmidt
Harry Wheatcroft
Hot Coco
Happy Child
Heritage

Iced ginger
Ingrid Bergman
Irene of Denmark
Irene

Just Joey
Joyfulness
Jessika
Jacaranda
Julia's Rose
Jardin de Bagatelle
Jude The Obscure
Jubilee 150
Jubilee Celebration
Jane Mcgrath
John Clare

Kentucky Derby
King's Ransome
Kroneburg
Kathleen Harrop


Lavender Mist
Laevigata
Leander
Lady of Megginch
Lillian Austin
Lolita
Las Vegas
Long Tall Sally
Limelight
La Rose Romantica
Lili Marlene
Largerfeld
Lord Gold
Lynn Anderson
Love
Lamarque
Lavender Pinocchio
Litchfield Angel
Lanvin

Mister Lincoln
MaxiVitae
Michelle Meilland
Margaret Merrill
Mary McKillop
Mary Rose
Minuette
Matthius Meilland
My Choice
Magic Carousel
Mabella
Memorium
Mother's Love
Masquerade
Mme Gregoire Staechelin
Mistress Quickly
Mutabils
Makybe Diva
Molineux
Munstead Wood

Nana Mouskouri
Northern Lights

Ophelia
Oaklahoma
Othello
Old Timer
Our Rosamond
Olivia Newton-John

Princess de Monaco
Papa Meilland
Pascali
Picadilly
Pink Panther
Polarstern
Peace
Pierre de Ronsard
Peter Frankenfeld
Princess Margaret
Precious Platinum
Peach Melba
Pat Austin
Pegasus
Pretty Jessica
Perfume Delight
Perle d' Or
Pristine
Pink Chiffon
Prospero
Paul Bocuse
Pomponella
Parkinsons Passion

Queen Adelaide

Radox Bouquet
Red Cascade
Royal Dane
Royal Highness
Royal Gold
Reine de Violettes
Rose Gaujard
Royal Bassino
Rae Dungan
Regensberg
Rumba
Radio Times
Route 66

Silver Jubilee
Sparrieshoop
Sunset Song
Swan
Spek's Yellow
Sheer Bliss
Sexy Rexy
Sweet Juliet
Shreveport
Seduction
Shady Lady
Sea Pearl
Softee
Sylvia
Sutters Gold
Sonia
Sweet Sonata
Strawberry Hill
Soaring Spirits
Sceptre d' Isle
Sally Holmes
Spirit of Peace
Sky Tower
Scentimental
Sonia Rykiel

The Little Girl's Rose
Tiffany
Troilus
The Miller
The Countryman
Tamango
Tamora
The Karnival
Touch Of Class
The Children's Rose
Tarantella
The Prioress
The Pilgrim
Teasing Georgia
The Dark Lady
The Lady
Tropical Sunset
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tradescant
The Endeavour
Tienke

Valencia
Vienna Charm
Violina

Wedding Day
Wise Portia
Wenlock
William Morris
Wildflower
Wildeve
Westerland

Yellow Charles Austin
Youki San
Yellow Button

Zepherine Drouhin



That's most of them ; I have a few unknowns and there are some that I didn't include because I have to check on their status.
Hope I have the spelling right.

cheers. Rosalie

Here is my list. I will have to add more to this after I go around the garden with pen and pad. But off the top of my head.

Species: I grow these in large pots and tubs and only split the clumps every 3 years or so for repotting. Warning: Never grow species roses on their own roots unless they are grafted!

Rosa acicularis (from wild seed, Nosehill Park, Calgary) - large form.

R. acicularis (from wild seed, Nosehill Park, Calgary) - unusual mini form (might actually be R. arkansana or R. woodsii). Ignore advice above on this one, as it is very well behaved on its own roots and a good rose in the garden. An outstanding mini, but needs some extra care when powdery mildew and blackspot are bad!! Also prone to sudden defoliation during summer heatwaves.

R. acicularis (Calgary, Canada) - largest form found growing as a hedge in the city park.

R. acicularis (imported seed from UK). Very dark-flowered form with large yellow stamens and almost Gallica-like foliage. This is possibly the north-eastern Asia/Europe form of acicularis.

R. blanda (from wild seed collected near Missouri/Iowa border). Old canes thornless.

R. carolina (from wild seed collected near St. Louis, Missouri).

R. chinensis var. spontanea (ex Roger Phillips ex SW Sichuan, China)

R. alpina = R. pendulina (seed from Switzerland). Old canes thornless. Often slow to get new leaves after winter.

R. rugosa - typical of wild pink/purple single-flowered form (from UK seed sold to me as "R. pomifera"!)

R. palustris (seed from Missouri Botanical Gardens). Vigorous plant, young canes bright red, leaves dark green. Often slow to get new leaves after winter.

R. davurica

R. setigera (from wild seed collected near St. Louis, Missouri). Flowers a bit later than other spring flowering roses and flowers quite long-lived. Spectacular if given room. Foliage has a blackberry appearance, different to other roses.


Chinas/Bengales (some China polys/polyanthas and early Teas):

Rosa chinensis var. spontanea

Old Blush (Parson's Pink)

Serratipetala (Note: Oz form is not the original form, so is possibly a "remake" from a chance seedling?)

Cramoisi Superieur

Perle D'Or

Archduke Charles? (probably not - looks like a larger clone of Parson's Pink?)

Archduke Charles? (possibly not - probably Monsieur Tillier)

Beauty of Glenhurst

Mutabilis

Minima (good match for Lawrenciana) ex Thomas

Viridiflora

Semperflorens (Slater's Crimson) - one of many clones of this cultivar.

Le Vésuve (on order!)

Unknown (from my late grandmother's garden) - miniature with white flowers in clusters all spring-summer. May be a polyantha, a bit like "Little White Pet". Very thorny! Extremely hardy and drought proof.

Fun Jwan Lo (= 'Rosa Indica Major') - doesn't repeat.

"Agnes Smith" (ROR) - repeats. Contender for Hume's Blush.

"Blakiston Tea' ROR (= "Agnes Smith"?)

Bloomfield Abundance (= 'Spray Cecile Brunner')

White Cecile Brunner

Cecile Brunner (bush form not the climber)

Hermosa


Seedlings (most from open pollinated seed!):

Rosa odorata ('Laos Rose') ex J. Hook.

Lake Mishmi China Rose (ex Yuki mikanagi, ex Viru and Girija Viraraghavan)

Camellia Temple China (ex Viru and Girija Viraraghavan)

Rosa gallica 'pumila' (species ex Berlin Botanical Gardens)

Rosa ussuriensis (species ex Berlin Botanical Gardens)


Teas and other OF:

"Hume's Blush" (NOT - ex MistyDowns). This sends up long arms like a semi-climber and is far too robust to be HB. The leaves are also wrong. At least it repeats and the flowers aren't half bad. It is what you could loosely call a "blush" rose. Looks more like a tea rose. Perhaps a tea or early HT? This is identical to a rose I bought from another nursery many years ago that was labelled "Parks Yellow Tea-Scented China"!!

Duchesse de Brabant (= Comtesse de Labarthe, "Countess Bertha", "Aunt Bertha", "Shell Rose")

Rosette delizy (= "Rosette de Lizzy")

Archduke Joseph ( = 'Mnsr Tillier'?)

Unknown Gallica-China hybrid, mostly thornless climber from pioneer cemetery. Possibly Charles de Mills, but canes very long.

Unknown (from my late grandmother's garden) - a Centifolia or hybrid perpetual perhaps??

Unknown (from old farm house yard, house long gone, near Killarney in Qld) - a tea, HT, or old shrub rose? Strong upright canes, large coppery pink, well-formed flowers. Flowers are a bit like 'President Herbert Hoover', but the plant seems too robust.

Unknown red, single-flowered, climber with slender stems (obvious Multiflora and possibly wichurana or bracteata influence) ex Tyers River, West Tyers, Victoria, old house yard.


Early HTs and OF Chinese-bred HTs (strong China influence):

Tipsy Imperial Concubine


Hybrid Teas and Floribundas: These were shifted during the drought by a family relative who managed to get them mixed up and lost the labels. I have tried to work them out again from the flowers.

Fragrant Cloud

Fruitee

Unknown red HT.

Unknown small pink/white floribunda or patio rose.

Pascali

Unknown - very large HT rose, with high-centred, dark pink flowers, similar to Queen Elizabeth but much better. Found in an old house yard in Toowoomba, removed during house renovations about 6 years ago. My favourite HT!

Fragrant Charm

Kardinal

Red Intuition

Lili Marlene

Iceberg


Other species/cultivars found "naturalized" within 30km of my home: I don't grow these personally, but I know where they occur.

R. canina (a very good almost thornless form exists in one location for use in grafting/budding!!).

R. eglanteria (= rubiginosa) - a common weed - some larger flowered forms about.

"Dorothy Perkins" (pink and red varieties - possibly also "Excelsa"?) -common roadside rose. Very vigorous.

R. Manettii? (old rootstock rose)

R. Indica? (old rootstock?)

A rose on the site of the old Mt. Marshall School has recently been determined as Fun Jwan Lo (Rosa Indica Major).

Rosa banksiae

Most of my roses are pretty common I suppose and seem to be well represented previously. The only ones I have that are less common are:

Chateau de Clos Vougeot (bush - about 60 yrs old)
Tipsy Imperial Concubine (bought last year)

hey ADamask

There is nothing wrong with the common ones , there common because they are popular and have proven themselves over the years, people would'nt buy them if they were difficult to grow and you want something to give you pleasure in the garden without all the problems.

Thanks ADamask, Chateau de Clos Vougeot looks like a lovely rose in the photos. I had not considered it before. I have Tipsy Imperial Concubine on order, but so far have not heard about it. I guess they won't be digging roses for another month?
Ian

Ian

Tipsy is a nice rose that we can never get to grow real large (it is not supposed to but usually roses grow larger in our climate). Beautiful flowers and perfume. We purchased a couple last year to replace one we had several years ago and lost for me reason (too wet I think). It took a while to find someone who actually had it on sale and were quite small when we recieved them so they are still in pots ready to plant out soon.

There is nothing wrong with the common ones , there common because they are popular and have proven themselves over the years, people would'nt buy them if they were difficult to grow and you want something to give you pleasure in the garden without all the problems.

Oh, for sure. I was just thinking that everyone else had listed them previously and so anyone looking for cuttings was well catered for. I can provide a full list if necessary! hehe

Thanks ADamask, Chateau de Clos Vougeot looks like a lovely rose in the photos. I had not considered it before. I have Tipsy Imperial Concubine on order, but so far have not heard about it.

Chateau is a lovely rose. Not much of a bush (that's the usual comment from what I can gather) but the one we have at the old farmhouse has lasted very well. I even managed to get a cutting to strike a few years ago. That got mauled by a rabbit last year and I'm hoping it will hang in there. I've noticed that Chateau has been used for breeding with a fair amount of success over the years also.
Tipsy - doing better than I expected (my friend in UK told me it was "delicate"). I'll probably shift it out of the pot and into the ground shortly. It smells lovely.

Hi Ian, good to see that you've survived the floods. These days the only 'rare roses' I can lay claim to are ones that my friend David (Clark) bred and called 'Rita's Rose' which struggles in my garden but I hang on to them fiercely.

Re Tipsy ... many years ago there was this wonderful post on the American Antique Rose Forum ... I wish I had kept a copy of it ... so delightful and entertaining.

Rita is there archives in that forum or not.

Not to my knowledge David. I had copied several 'interesting and entertaining' posts, but through successive computer crashes have managed to lose most of the contents. There was so much poetry and knowledge ... there was this thread about Rivers and Magpies ... it was wonderful and kept readers amazed and entranced for ages ...