Article (newspaper)  (Nov 2008)  Page(s) 3.  
 
Patricia Routley: One of the benefits of having a nice garden is that people tend to bring their visitors out to see the roses, and so you not only get to catch up with the neighbours, but you get to meet all sorts of interesting people as well. Last week someone recommended to Louise Schrama out on Hillbrook Road, that she visit our garden and because I was running, I said come on Sunday (October 19) and tag along with the Bridgetown Garden Club who had brought a bus full of people. They did just that and Louise brought her 80-year-old visitor from South Australia. When the behemoth of a bus at last lumbered off down the hill, I turned around and there was this tiny 80-year-old lady standing in the middle of the road, waiting for me. She introduced herself as Joyce Filmer from Blackwood, SA and said she had walked all over our garden and enjoyed it very much indeed. She wasn’t in the best of health so I was impressed and we stood and talked roses for a little. She told me that she once had Silver Moon, a big white climber from Damascus. “I’ve got Silver Moon”, I said. Well, you should have seen her face! She had got the origin of the rose a little wrong, but there was no doubt she knew ‘Silver Moon’. As we stood and talked, her friend, Louise, pointed out Joyce’s arms, which were much scarred from burns she had suffered whilst rescuing her son from a house fire 40 years ago. We all agreed that any mother would do the same for their son. After they had gone, I got on the blessed computer again and emailed my S.A. friends to ask if they had a spare pot of ‘Silver Moon’. “No, but it is no problem to strike one.” When I told them the story of my elderly visitor, my friend Pat Toolan quickly replied with a 1959 picture of a group of school children. She remembered the fire, had lived over the railway from the Filmer’s, and had gone to school with Joyce’s daughter and there in the picture were the two little girls kneeling in the front row. There is no doubt Joyce will get her pot of ‘Silver Moon’ from these S.A. ladies, and I sincerely hope it will be a memento of her visit to Northcliffe, back in October, 2008. I only hope she has a tree big enough to carry the huge white single rose with the buttery yellow buds. ‘Silver Moon’ was bred in 1909.by Dr. Walter Van Fleet in the USA and I can trace my bush of it back to Coromandel in S.A. It often takes some very personal circumstances to make a rose that special to someone - but it's so much a part of why we value these roses. It's not just how old they are, and the way they look, or the people who created them, or the times they were born to, but the history they gather on the way.

Website/Catalog  (Oct 1999)  Page(s) 46.  
 
Silver Moon (Climber) An interesting, white rose with silver-grey stems. Shapely flowers opening single and scented with good foliage. 1910.

Book  (1994)  Page(s) 5, 99-100.  Includes photo(s).
 
Includes detailed description of the history of 'Silver Moon' as well as instructions for training and pruning based on the co-author's experience at the Cranford in New York.

Book  (Nov 1993)  Page(s) 52.  
 
Silver Moon [descended from R. laevigata] with creamy white almost-single blooms emerging from yellow buds... smelling of apples

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 551.  
 
Silver Moon Large-flowered Climber, creamy white, base amber,s tamens darker, 1910, Reputedly (R. wichuraiana x 'Devoniensis') x R. laevigata; Van Fleet. Description.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 149.  Includes photo(s).
 
Silver Moon Laevigata climber. Parentage: Obscure, but probably (R. wichuraiana x 'Devoniensis') x R. laevigata. USA 1910. Description and cultivation... Produces fragrant, very large, pure white, loose, single flowers with golden stamens...

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 121.  Includes photo(s).
 
A large-flowered Rambler, very popular in USA. Van Fleet (USA) 1910. A Rosa laevigata hybrid. Repeats. Height: 30 ft. Rich scent.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 86.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Jun 1986)  Page(s) 92.  Includes photo(s).

Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 45.  
 
Silver Moon.....Shapely flowers opening single and scented with good foliage.