Can You Identify This Rose?
I visited a friend's garden yesterday. She said this rose was Champneys' Pink Cluster. I said I did not think so--at least it did not look like the rose I purchased as Champneys' many years ago. She said it was given to her by an older friend, now dead. My recollection is that this friend did not have Champneys' but she did have Blush Noisette although I don't recall seeing it in bloom. This rose does not look like the Blush Noisette I bought from the same nursery where I bought Champneys'. Is there more than one rose in commerce with both of these names? My Champneys and Blush Noisette are twiggy in the manner of Chinas with smaller leaves. This rose is robust and has the most intense fragrance I have ever experienced. The spray in the photographs is enough to perfume a room.
I can smell it from ten feet away. I took the attached pictures about 20 minutes ago and I can still detect the faint scent of the rose even though it is no longer in the room.
Lindsey
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Comments (4)It would help if you showed pics of leaves, stems, the overall plant itself, etc. There are tens of thousands of rose varieties out there, and while many moderns are bred for a specific "look" to their flowers (and thus can seem rather similar when showing just their flowers), they often show more differences elsewhere on the plant. :-) ~Christopher...See MoreCan you identify this rose?
Comments (12)Scentimental has wonderful fragrant flowers that last only a few hours. It is lovely but fleeting. It also has relatively good disease resistance. I suspect that this is not Scentimental since you say that it has no fragrance. Scentimental has a distinctly shrub form. Ferdinand Pichard is not especially fragrant. I never notice how long the individual roses last because they are somewhat smaller. I would say that they are not long lived like some roses but I don't know if they flash past as quickly as those of Scentimental. It is less disease-resistant, too. FP throws up long canes that can easily be wrapped around a pillar or guided along a fence. Of course, it could be a completely different striped rose. Since it is remontant you can rule out all the striped gallicas and probably also the Bourbon rose Variegata di Bologna which is said to repeat rarely. I have not personally grown VdB so I am going on what I've heard here. Rosefolly...See MoreCan you identify this rose?
Comments (2)Sure looks like Angel Face. Here's a link to compare. Here is a link that might be useful: Angel Face at helpmefind...See MoreCan you identify this rose?
Comments (5)You're welcome. Hopefully that IS the correct guess. I think there are a couple other "greenish" flowered roses, but I don't remember the names at the moment....See More
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