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2nd time: I did not hesitate

12 years ago

Last year I lamented on here how the parent plant of Warwick Chapel red, over by Chesney Tennessee (near Lutrell) had disappeared. It was in a field, and then it was gone. Not that the field was being used, just that the field was empty, now.

What's important about Warwick Chapel is that it is (probably) a HP that does well in my part of the country when it is ignored, and a bit better when it's well treated.

In Blaine, my closest town (it even now has a sidewalk although some folks disrespectfully call it the sidewalk to nowhere) there has been a rose that I had wondered if it were also Warwick Chapel.

The no longer lived in house where Blaine red lived was not abandoned. I never saw anyone there. But it was in their front yard. Then the land was sold for a major upscale convenience store.

I drove past when a crew was there clearing the honeysuckle and some of the weeds. By the time I got back from Knoxville, and pulled over to ask if I could take the rose, the rose was gone, flattened, but honeysuckle was nearby, still climbing a telephone pole.

So I waited and watched. The rose didn't come back last year, even with an inch of rain a week.

Happy story. One vibrant red bloom appeared on Monday. Tuesday we dug it up. Wednesday morning....you know where this is going, don't you?.......there was (after half a year of nothing happening to the now vacant lot) an earth mover sitting on top of where the rose had been, and its treads were moving back and forth to get the shovel scoop into the right location to dig a hole for some reason or other.

But two fairly good pieces of (now called) Blaine's Crossroads red are in my garden. The bloom color is not (this bloom cycle) identical to Warwick Chapel.

So, for now, it lives on.

And time will show if it's the same or not.

(The newest Blaine leaves have a fine red edge that Warwick's leaves lack, but let's see if the roses converge or diverge over time.)

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Comments (7)

mmmgonzo
12 years ago
Yay!!
Your persistence paid off. SO glad you did not wait that extra day to bring that rose into your garden :)
jerijen
12 years ago
CONGRATULATIONS! I once wrote something aboutwhatto do '"...if a bulldozer is idling at your backside ..." You passed the test. :-)

Jeri
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jacqueline9CA
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Congratulations! Anytime a dwelling is actually EMPTY, and scheduled for demolition, the time to act is immediately.

I got a rose cutting of what we are now calling "Schmidt's Smooth Yellow" (Kim thinks it may actually be a rose that was thought to be extinct!) from the front garden of just such a dwelling. Turns out, the son of the deceased owner dug up all 48 of the rose bushes soon after I took my cutting. I0 years later, I visited his widow this week, and my little yellow rose was not among the dozens in her garden. (They actually dug up and moved 48 mature rose bushes, in a truck, 20 minutes up the freeway to their house). When I asked her about the little yellow one, she said "Oh, that was the only one we lost - it died". So, if I had not taken a cutting, it would have been lost indeed.

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roseseek
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Too bad we can't get someone from The Heritage or Sacramento Cemetery to "rustle" the remaining roses from that garden. They should all be interesting older roses and may well yield other "lost" roses. The few times I've been able to "mine" old gardens like that, they've had some real wonders in them! Kim
jacqueline9CA
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Kim - Cass and I visited them - they were ALL hybrid teas. Cass spotted one old one, and there was another scented one (the ONLY one!) that may have been Chrysler Imperial.

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roseseek
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Understood and thank you, Jackie. It's what other HTs there that is of interest. Many of note have disappeared since the forties and fifties...Juno, Margaret McGredy, Charles P. Kilham, The Queen Alexandra Rose, several of the "Irish" series of single HTs from Dickson, and many, many more. Most of which existed here and were "commercial varieties" with wide distribution. It's the 'time capsule' value of a garden like this that intrigues. I honestly wish it were within my abilities to rustle and propagate what remains there to make sure something isn't lost. Kim
sherryocala
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Good job, Ann. Keep us posted.

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