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"Sarah Moon" rose Description
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Photo courtesy of Jeri & Clay Jennings' Garden
HMF Ratings:
2 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Pink blend Tea.
Class:
Found Rose, Tea.  
Bloom:
Pink and white.  Mild, tea rose fragrance.  Average diameter 2.5".  Medium to large, very double, very full (41+ petals), cluster-flowered, high-centered, nodding or "weak neck", old-fashioned, spiral centers bloom form.  Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season.  
Habit:
Tall, bushy, spreading, upright, well-branched.  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Can be used for cut flower, exhibition, garden, hedge, landscape, shrub or specimen.  Very vigorous.  can be trained as a climber.  heat tolerant.  prefers full sun.  prefers warmer sites.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.  Remove spent blooms to encourage re-bloom.  Requires spring freeze protection (see glossary - Spring freeze protection) .  Feed this rose well.  Prune dead wood.  Prune lightly or not at all.  Resist the urge to prune this rose too heavily -- it doesn't like it!.  
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Notes:
In The Family Of Sarah Moon Since 1897. Provided by Walt Klement, Great-Grandson of Sarah Moon, Santa Paula, California.

History...

On April 23, 1885, 18-year old Sarah Byrd was married to New Yorker, Alfonso Moon. Sarah was born to a pioneering family, in Porterville, CA. But Sarah and Alfonso looked further afield.
Sarah was 27 years old in 1897, when the Moon family moved to Ventura California. There, they leased 100 acres of good Oxnard Plain farmland, and settled down to grow Lima Beans, Sugar Beets, and Corn. Tragedy struck the little family in 1897, with the death in Montalvo of their oldest child, a second Alfonso Moon. The child was buried in the Ventura City Cemetery.
The Ventura City Cemetery today is unrecognizable as a Cemetery. Though most of the burials remained undisturbed, the tombstones were removed by the City in the 1950’s, as the erstwhile cemetery was turned into a rather mundane City park. To complete their vandalism, they smashed many of the old headstones to rubble, and used them for road-bed fill. Nothing, of course, is left of the roses that once grew in this pioneer-era cemetery.
But that sad event was part of an unforeseen future when a grieving mother took home a cutting from one of the cemetery roses, as a living memory of her child.
Sarah, clearly, had a green thumb. Her cutting turned into a healthy plant that still thrives on the family property, and is cherished by her descendents. Her grandson and grand-daughter-in-law, (Gold Coast HRG members Walt and Judy Klement, Santa Paula, California) brought the rose to our attention more than 5 years ago.
Sarah Moon’s rose appears to be an unidentified sport of ‘Maman Cochet’ (Tea, Int. 1893 by Scipion Cochet). (We confirmed that ‘Maman Cochet’ was available in commerce in the late 1800’s, at SHEPHERD’S GARDENS, the nursery owned by Theodosia Burr Shepherd. Shepherd’s Gardens was located approximately a half-mile from the cemetery where cuttings were taken.) We are grateful to Walt and Judy, who have made cuttings available to us for propagation.

-- JMJ, October, 2002
 
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