Here's another one in my favorite color and from my favorite late mid-century time specialty.........as time pulls away from 1973 when this one took home an AARS, this one actually looks "better" now than it did then. In 1973, BIG BLOOMS and EXHIBITION FORM were the buzz words and on those terms Gypsy was a flop for the blooms are not huge and they sure are not formal. They are scalloped and the color is somewhere between Chinese Red and Oxblood Red and that color was already trending out/over-introduced by 1973. The plant is a little under-foliaged but the disease resistance is pretty good. Just so many of this color back in those days, this one, again came late and in my opinion, although "above average" should not have won the AARS in 1973 but had it been introduced even a few years earlier would have been much better received. Most assuredly is NOT the "joke" it was titled all those years ago...........and of interest to anyone who "likes" the color, or the era and/or the "sociological" aspect of rose marketing and how sometimes just being a little "ahead" gets a variety extremely far whereas being just a little "behind" deems the variety, well, a "joke" as per above............

This rose has been in constant production for a month. We’ve been having unusually warm temperatures by British standards, so that may be the reason, but I’m impressed, much more so that, judging by the canes it’s been producing, with many buds per stem, the best is yet to come. I have been puzzling over how to describe the scent, which is sweet, deep, and vaguely fermented in the best possible way, without any tart notes at all. Charles Quest Ritson describes it as fruity and musky, but I don’t get the fruity notes and am not sure I have yet figured out what the musk scent exactly is (though I occasionally use the word myself to describe scents similar to Golden Jubilee’s!)... I think I finally found a way to pin down the fragrance of this rose: years ago I grew, for a single season, philadelphus delavayi melanocalyx, or it may have been p. purpurascens (closely allied). I had to get rid of it because it grew far too fast and too large for my patio. Golden Jubilee’s scent, though less intense, shares the same quality as the distinctive fragrance of this p. delavayi/purpurascens (which, by the by, smells nothing like other mock oranges)

again the picture here does not fit the rose described .the rose is a white/pale pink. the picture here is that of a bright rose pink type there are so many like this here. that i doubt the professional objectivity and research savy of those who built this site. to say the least i am disapointed.