Just saw that I put this in the wrong place - sorry!! Is there a way to move it?

Wow I love it. I hope you find out its name. Judy

Nice! Hope you find out what rose it is RobynB...

RobynB, it looks like the polyantha rose, The Fairy ( Bentall 1932). You can read about it and look at photos on helpmefind.com

Ho, I grew a hedge of The Fairy many years ago, and didn't even think of this rose as being a Fairy rose. Mine looked so faded and awful most of the time--the only rose that consistently ever got powdery mildew that I've grown, and it didn't like my alkaline soil, so was thus chlorotic a lot. How large across are the blooms on this mystery rose, Robyn? They aren't massed together as much as mine were, and this bush's blooms look larger, but it's hard to tell in a photo. Diane

It almost looks like The Fawn, too, which was bred from The Fairy. I know what you mean, Diane, The Fairy was never good for me anywhere I tried it, either. It hates dry, arid, alkaline heat. Mildew, terribly faded, mummified-gray blooms with almost guaranteed crown gall. It holds the record for all of that with Ballerina, another which hates my old climate.

Amen, Kim. The Fairy blooms always looked dried up and half dead on that long ago small hedge of six plants that I had. I've had better luck with Ballerina as far as PM, but it has a definite chlorosis problem around here in our alkaline soil. Diane

I'm not familiar with The Fawn, but I grew The Fairy in a large planter for years and it looked very similar to the posted photo....never faded dramatically and never displayed any fungal problems. Was sorry to leave it behind, but it was too big to move. I took cuttings but none grew and somehow have never got around to ordering another and now I have no room. Nanadol and roseseek, what a pity it was such a dog of a rose for you.

It does look like The Fairy, from what I can see online. The only thing that gives me pause is that the descriptions all say Fairy stays small, no more than 2-3 feet high. The bush in my photos was taller than I am at 5'2". Any thoughts?

There is a climbing sport which is listed as 8'- 12'. Mine was the bush form and (including the planter) was about 51/2' so I guess it would have been around 4'....not as tall as the bush you saw, though. Mine was about 4'-5' wide.

The Fairy has sported multiple times, so anything is possible. It could also easily be it is happy where you have it and is just stretching its wings. Supposedly Ballerina can grow to 6', though I know of one in Redondo Beach that used to eat a three story pine tree. Where they're happy, they're GOING to grow. If the climate doesn't inhibit it, the thing can continue expanding to the limits of the available resources.

Diane: Small blooms, maybe 3"? Small but a bit bigger than those of a miniature rose.

HMF reports The Fairy's blooms as 1.5" and The Fawn (The Faun) blooms at 3".

Yes, Kim, The Fairy's blooms are much smaller than 3" . I doubt mine were even 1.5" because of their being so dried up all the time. Diane

It's not Lavender Lassie is it?

Or Weeping China Doll?

I was gonna say it's color is similar to my Lovely Fairy but the blooms are much smaller than 3 in. I don't remember it's foliage being shiny either.

Robyn, I like you have also searched for a pink rose with a double bloom of about the same size. It was grown by my mother who passed away when I was 11. Long before I cared about the name of a rose or when we might have discussed such things. Would have been some 50+ years ago.

I ordered the fairy first as it had been hybridized before 1960. But alas the flower was too small. After a few other failed attempts. I tried for a lookalike and ordered Forever Friends and The Fawn while I know these are not the rose of my childhood they were very close and satisfied my need to have that rose in my life. All thou I've never exactly quit looking.

I have heard Cecile Brunner called the Sweetheart Rose, and perhaps, a baby rose, but this rose doesn't look like CB, does it? Diane

No ma'am, everything about it is wrong for Cecile Brunner. It is right for a Fairy offspring.