"Phillips & Rix Cl. China"
"Phillips & Rix Cl. China" -- a spring-blooming Chinese climber, has decided for some reason to bloom in January.
(Of course, R. banksia lutea is doing the same thing.)
It has recently been suggested that this is the same rose Phillips & Rix imported as "Lijiang Road"-- which Guoliang Wong suggests is actually Rosa odorata var. erubescens.
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2 years agojerijen
2 years agofig_insanity Z7b E TN
2 years agojerijen
2 years agoMaybe tomorrow I'll walk down there. It'll be warmer (A LOT warmer!) and dry. There's some other things I need to look at, as well.
I sure wish I could see side-by-side images of this rose, and 'Lijiang Road' to see how they match, and how they differ.
But in the meantime, it's fun to look at the China-like blooms of Phillips & Rix . . .
next to "5 Yuan" / aka "10,000 Camellias" and . . .
"Not-Alice Hamilton' . . .
and even "The China From Adina"
portlandmysteryrose
2 years agoWow! These rare antiques give me goosebumps. Thank you for the photos and the thread! I think I’ll take my Phillips and Rix book off the shelf and read it again, too. It’s been awhile. I recently passed along a pile of garden books to various friends during a deep house clean-up, but somehow I still have around 150?! Hmmmm. Carol
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