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'Patchwork Sport' rose Reviews & Comments
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A surprisingly large flower for a striped sport of the original Patchwork, with much brighter petal color. Undersides are pale yellow. Opens A very warm Vermilion Pink, finishes Deep almost fluorescent Fuchsia with very dramatic gold stripes. More defined color stripes than many other striped HT’s. Patchwork has clean stripes more like dashes.
Disease resistant, armed Moderately with medium sized thorns. Performs well In humidity. No balling in cool or wet weather. Does drop foliage at end of season when affected by some light black spot, but will resist it for several months. In a vase, buds slowly open, lasting up to 4 days. Medium fruity fragrance, with hints of peaches and berries. One of the strongest fragranced hybrid teas for a striped rose. Slightly shiny foliage starts out a bronzed color tone, and eventually only the leaf margin remains slightly coppery.
Perpetual type blooms, rather than flushes. Large flowers 4 - 4.5” across. Thick petals provide a sturdy flower, and holds up to rain exceptionally well.
Form and shape is relatively short stature, typically 36” tall and 2’ wide. Tends to be more vigorous as grafted. My own root specimen receded and took an additional year to grow and bloom at the same rate as a graft, but does grow acceptably on own roots.
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You write an excellent review Planetrj (zone 11).
I wonder if Kim Rupert might add the date and the details of this sport?
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When you feel compelled to reply to someone as "Planetrj (zone 11)" I start thinking I really should change my username.
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Well, you could just go by “Caffiene” for short...Or “Caffy” ????
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Yes, or GMC. Any of those would be fine by me, and personally I'd just refer to you as Planetrj, which I assume you'd be fine with, but some people feel obliged to use the whole kaboodle. :)
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I like GMC.. also, Caffiene I love too because (you can imagine) living on the island of Kona Coffee, it’s in my blood. :)
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Patricia, thank you kindly. I do recall that Kim had a note on this cultivar In his journal somewhere. If there’s a way to cross-reference this to that entry, it may answer some questions regarding it. Originally, I was given this plant as simply Patchwork, and all along assuming it wasn’t the sport. Then I realized this WAS that sport which all tracks back to the nursery where Kim discovered it. So, apparently the nursery distributed it for a while, however I don’t believe it’s available readily in commerce. This is why I’ve “sanctuaried” this by duplicating it in own-root form.
Maybe Kim will chime in someday on this gem.
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In the early to mid 1980's, I was avidly collecting every striped modern rose; every single HT; every old miniature; every micro miniature and every "coffee colored" rose available in the US, Canada and obtainable via importing from Britain. There was a huge retail/wholesale nursery in Sylmar, CA, near the interchange of 405 and 210 freeways from whom I purchased canned bud and bloom roses for several years. They had a large block of Patchwork, which I spent quite a while studying as I'd previously discovered there could be rather substantial differences between plants of the same variety in the blocks. This plant of Patchwork was heavily Rose Mosaic Virus infected and expressed wildly striped flowers. None of the others expressed such variegation in the petals. I understood RMV (Rose Mosaic Virus) and would have preferred not to have grown infected plants, but the symptoms were wide spread at every nursery I frequented and the variegated petals were a definite attraction to me. I christened the rose "Patchwork Sport" as it was the only striped plant of it in that block and the only one I'd encountered at any nursery selling the variety.
I grew it at my parents' house in Granada Hills and later in my old Newhall garden (A Hidden Sanctuary here on Help Me Find) for years and shared it with many nurseries (Vintage, Sequoia, The Rose Ranch, Pixie Treasures, and others) and sold it through the Friends of the Huntington Plant Sales with the other striped rose sports I had collected and grew in that garden. I have updated the date of discovery on the rose page. I hope it helps.
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Thank you Kim. It does. And I have updated the description.
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You're welcome, Patricia. Thank YOU!
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