Anne, this looks to me like it might be another of the rose we have called "The Rose Of Many Names."

It's a Hybrid Perpetual. We have also found it associated with Irish immigrants in the gold rush country, and up approaching the redwood country at at least one old farmhouse.

It is quite changeable of form and petallage, but when you grow them together, they all end up looking alike.

SEE:
http://www.goldcoastrose.org/articles/tromn.pdf

Hi Jeri,

It most certainly does look like the same rose, this one found in McCloud, CA, near Mt. Shasta which was originally logged by Scottish/Irish loggers (McLeod, later changed to McCloud). Thank you! I love the history and the fact it is so widespread in California. Very interesting!

This one is at the Calvary Christian Center Assembly, I took a few cuttings to root. Should I contact the organization from the pamphlet or are you involved and can note the location for them?

Here are pictures of mine which I took 5 minutes ago (it does get water here, but certainly does not seem to mind our hot summer). Mine gets fed and tended (but NOT sprayed). It is only about 5-6 years old. It is a rooted cutting of one growing down the street in our old neighborhood. The lady whose garden it is in says it was already there when she moved in 40 years ago.

Jackie

Yes, I think we have found it! With a little help from my friends! Thank you! I will not be giving mine another name and will stick with TROMN.

It's terrific to add yet another sighting of this rose.
What ever it is, it certainly seems to have been greatly loved, and widely shared.

I do wish we could figure out what it really was . . . but . . . well, maybe I DON'T. Maybe it's best that it remain a true Mystery Rose.

Is this rose for sale anywhere? I would sure like to find one at the next Sacramento City Cemetery sale...

I don't think the Cemetery has propagated it. It's a happy rose in NoCal, but can be troubled by rust and mildew, in SoCal.
But it roots readily. I'll mention it to them.

I should mention that ANOTHER place we found TROMN was on Mare Island.

There was a small park there, about a block away from a neighborhood of graceful Victorian houses. Across the street there was a sort of "community theater," and near the park entrance there was the ruins of what had been a pretty lily pond.

A long pathway was flanked by swags of very hefty anchor chain, where I suspect Climbing roses had grown. Near the path, growing up through a huge pineapple guava, we found what turned out to be TROMN.

Clearly, it had had a prominent spot in the park. It's so ubiquitous, I can't imagine why we can't identify it.

I have found another rose by the side of a road that I have posted in some group before and the consensus is it may be Dorothy Perkins. For now I am calling it the Conant Rd. Rambler and here is a picture:

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One thing, these had a distinct yellow center which I don't see clearly in pictures of Dorothy Perkins. Being so far from everything this could well be a seed dropped by a bird. It is in a location where trucks whiz by at top speeds so the both times I've been there it is a grab the clippers, run and clip and back in the car!

There really are a lot of "Almost-Dorothy-Perkins" roses out there.

The thing must be Fertile Myrtle.

It's been growing all summer on a southeast facing slope, basically sun all the heat of the day, with no water and expanding in size. Definitely a hardy thing! Big healthy canes compared to the 1/4" stems of the cut flowers that I rooted (only a few made it) in the spring. Would be a great grow on a slope and leave alone rambler. The scent was so powerful I smelled it on the breeze going 75 miles an hour and looked until I saw it up ahead and across the freeway! The bright pink flowers (what I call "hot pink") gave it away. It is growing at an almost 2,000 ft. elevation in uppermost Shasta County on Hwy 5. Hot in the summer and some snow in the winter.

Does it mildew?

I don't know, I'll report after I'm growing some for a season. The plant by the side of the road was not mildewed at all, but I'll see what garden conditions bring. I think I'm drowning the ones that have already rooted but they are popping up healthy shiny leaves.

That was going to be my question Jeri.