Rare Roses Trip to Oregon and Calfornia
As some of you may recall, I posted about Paul Barden's Rose varieties becoming rare back in February: [https://www.houzz.com/discussions/paul-bardens-rose-varieties-are-becoming-rare-dsvw-vd~5616806?n=35[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/paul-bardens-rose-varieties-are-becoming-rare-dsvw-vd~5616806?n=35)
At the end of April, I made the road trip down to Oregon to meet with Paul and he very graciously gave me rooted plants of a number of his varieties for me to take on to John P. in California. Some of the roses he sent are fairly well known: Galicandy, Ellen Toffelmeir, Unconditional Love, and Carolyn Supinger. He also provided us with a number of unreleased varieties, including a sibling of Mel's Heritage that he has named Tajique.
I so very much enjoyed meeting with Paul, and talking to him at length about his roses and rose breeding. His generous offer of plants, cuttings and support of our project to put his roses back into commerce is greatly appreciated. The plants he gave me are now planted and growing in John's garden and will be secured for propagation and distribution as that part of our project develops over the next year or two.
As many or you know, John and I are also avid collectors and boosters of early David Austin varieties that are rare or out of commerce. On the way to Paul's place, I stopped by Heirloom Roses and was fortunate to meet with Ben Hanna, the owner. I stopped because there was a post on this forum that the rose "Sweet Juliet" was being discontinued and was on clearance. Sweet Juliet is a rose I grew many years ago and loved. It is now extremely rare. Heirloom no longer has a retail sales area, but Ben was very welcoming when I told him about our project to save rare roses. He offered me a plant of Sweet Juliet gratis. He told me that the Corporate folk at David Austin have once again told him that he must discontinue selling more of the older rare Austin roses, or risk loosing his licence to propagate the newer ones. Same old story and thus the clearance on a number of the older varieties, though the mother plants will remain in his garden.
When we went out to one of the many the green houses to look for Sweet Juliet, I found a plant of another very old rare variety called "Country Living". He offered that to me as well and then asked me if there were any other rare ones I would like. I chose a robust plant of "Claire Rose". In all I left with three plants, all for free. My thanks to Ben for his generosity and interest in the rare roses project. These roses too are now in John's garden in California. John will be sending plants of both Paul's varieties and some more of the early Austin roses to Hummingbird Roses in Michigan once the plants are ready. He will also be sending me plants next spring for inclusion in the Heritage Collections at the Summerland Ornamental Gardens here in British Columbia.
Finally, on to John and Sharon's garden in California. When I arrived, I was in a word "gobsmacked" at the glorious display of roses of all kinds. My timing was about perfect to see the garden in peak bloom. I spent two wonderful days with John and Sharon immersed in roses, rose breeding and gardening in general. John and Sharon were most gracious and generous hosts and it was wonderful to meet them both after corresponding with John for quite a few years on line. John took me to the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, as well as the San Jose City Rose Garden. John and Sharon are the curators of many rare and beautiful roses of all kinds. In all, it was a wonderful and fulfilling trip.
I am so pleased that the preservation of all these rare roses is being advanced. I hope that those of you who have offered cuttings of other of Paul's varieties to John and Mindy can find the time to do so when the time is right. In a way, this post is an update and reminder about what is happening with this small project. We are making good progress.
To finish, here are a few images from John and Sharon's rose collection:
John with his mother plant of Cressida, he has 15 plants now. Provenance of this rose is: David Austin UK; Pickering Nursery, Canada; my rose garden, Ontario; Hortico, Ontario: John's Garden, California. Cressida is now safe secure and in commerce in both Canada and the US. Thanks John!
Crepuscule on the left. The tall climber on the right is I believe Harlow Carr, if I remember correctly. A rose not generally known as a climber.
Close up shot of a bloom of Harlow Carr. It is definitely on my list as a climber now for the collection in the Summerland Ornamental Gardens.
Again, if I remember correctly, this is a John Clements rose called The Impressionist. John and Sharon have quite a few of John Clements roses in their collection, all gorgeous well worth growing. Most are still available from Heirloom I believe.
Well, this has turned into another lengthy post. I must head out to my own garden project and so will sign off now.
Cheers, Rick
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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
hace 4 añosRick, as Marlorena mentioned, and I agree, that climbing rose is not Harlow Carr, which is one of Austin's shorter roses. It's not just the climbing aspect that is atypical; it's just a very different rose. If Marlorena says it's Hyde Hall I'm sure that's correct; the lady knows her roses. Not a big deal anyway, since yours was a tentative ID.
Here's a picture of Harlow Carr taken in my garden years ago. It's thrilling that you and everyone else involved are making the effort to ensure these older roses are not lost to us. Many thanks to all of you.
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