This is one tough plant. I had a tiny plant with one basal planted in a terrible spot with too much shade. I dug it up and moved it twice, it looked like it would die for a few weeks but I continued to give it water soluble fertilizer. I checked it yesterday and it looked much healthier and even had a bloom and new growth.
How is your Barbara Worl/Grandmother’s Hat doing now? The exact same thing as you describe has happened to my Barara Worl. My mail ordered plant was a spindly stick. That was over 3 yrs ago. I found it during last year’s horrible drought looking very sad, but it did have some leaves. I replanted it in same area late last summer and am hoping it will survive. Thank you very much for your post. It has given me renewed hope.
That was one of the several potential identifications proposed by Bob Edberg based upon illustrations in old rose publications. Unfortunately, we'll never know just who it is. I sent bud wood of it to The Netherlands years ago in hopes someone there would be able to compare it to similar roses there. It hasn't ever happened.
Kim, Maybe I might shine some light on that in a personal message. Once I got delivered 3 the same unknown roses instead of Gruss an Aachen. I wasn't familiar with Grandmother's Hat... and today I looked at some photo's on HMF of it and for me the "false delivered Gruss an Aachen" and G.H. were similar. I gave those plants away. Best Regards, Jay-Jay.
The rose exhibitor community has been showing Grandmothers Hat under the name “Cornet” for decades. “Found” roses are not allowed at most shows, and apparently someone did a comparison in the literature, and that was the best approximation to the found rose that is everywhere in California.
Another Bob Edberg effort. Bob's major effort was Limberlost Books. He found old colored plates he felt were sufficient matches for both of those identifications. And, it was based upon those plates he made them.
