Website/Catalog  (23 May 2022)  Includes photo(s).
 
Gertrude Jekyll (Ausbond) - David Austin Climbing Rose 
Gertrude Jekyll is a fabulous rose and one of David Austin Roses best ever introductions, delicate buds open out into large, rich pink deep cupped long lasting flowers with a stunning, rich fragrance. Strong, upright growth and plentiful blooms in quickly repeating flushes from early summer to late autumn . Winner of many awards.This variety can be grown either as a mid border shrub rose (with hard winter pruning) or as a climbing rose if trained and lightly pruned. Full sun position but also tolerates a semi shaded position or North Wall. Fragrance: Strong  Shub/Climbing Rose Height: 1.8 - 2.5m approx

Magazine  (Jun 2020)  Page(s) 11 Vol 42. no. 2.  
 
John Nieuwesteeg, Greater Melbourne
“Von Doussa Children”. The autumn Journal states that “Gertrude Jekyll (Austin, 1986) is considered unlikely because the scent is different” - but that bit is Steve! Perfume is not my strong point.
The bit about Gertude being hard to propagate is me! I have tried to grow Gertrude in quantity for years and always with poor bud take, and a lot of the young plants falling off the rootstock. Not a variety a grower is going to turn into profit.
“Von Doussa Children” came to me from Ruston’s as two budsticks. I think I budded 8 and finished up with 8 top quality plants. The foliage looked familiar but the one or two flowers produced between them the first year were small. I know this sounds confusing but I have now come to the conclusion that “Von Doussa Children” is *Gertrude Jekyll: no question now remains in my mind. I have removed this Gertrude from her old friends and planted her with her other Austin friends. We will now have to go back to the future when she will be considered old!

* Ed: OK, but mine hasn’t set hips, as Gertrude should. Maybe she doesn’t like the company I’ve made her keep. At least you have a clone that cooperates with budding!

 

Magazine  (Mar 2020)  Page(s) 23. Vol 42, No. 1.  Includes photo(s).
 
Margaret Furness, More Foundlings. 
These three roses come from the same cemetery, and are all well worth growing. The first and third were collected around 1993, before the need to document the grave name was recognised, and are no longer there....
"Von Doussa Children" Hybrid Perpetual or Portland.  The flowers are large (about 10cm), very double, and paler around the edges. In my garden this rose reached 1.2m before I moved it, and I assumed that would be its ultimate height. But at Renmark, in a patch which we think had regular flooding of water and fertiliser from a cut irrigation pipe, I was startled to see it had flowers 3m up. It gets some black spot. It flowers in flushes, but its repeat is not as fast as that of “Anne Wooley”. The stamens are exposed when it is fully open. So far it hasn’t set hips. Suggestions have been Gertrude Jekyll, Austin 1986, and its parent Comte de Chambord, Portland, Robert and Moreau before 1858. Gertrude Jekyll was considered unlikely by John and Steve because the scent is different and it isn’t hard to propagate.

Website/Catalog  (2018)  Includes photo(s).
 
(Ausbord)  Gertrude Jekyll
Always one of the first English Roses to start flowering, its perfect scrolled buds open to large, rosette-shaped flowers of bright glowing pink.  The beautiful, perfectly balanced Old Rose scent is often described as being the quintessential Old Rose fragrance.  A vigorous rose; it will form a medium-sized, upright shrub.  Named for the famous garden designer and author.  David Austin, 1986. [...]
Gertrude Jekyll was a famous garden designer and author, who has had a profound effect on the style of English gardens of the present day.  She advocated incorporating roses in mixed borders and created over 400 picturesque gardens in the UK, Europe and America.  She received the Veitch Memorial Medal and the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour.

Magazine  (2012)  Page(s) 3. Vol 34, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Von Doussa Children collected SA. May be a Portland. Photo by Pat Toolan.

Book  (Aug 2002)  Page(s) 43.  
 
Gertrude Jekyll
Shrub 1986
Not rated

Website/Catalog  (4 Jan 1999)  Page(s) 13.  Includes photo(s).

Website/Catalog  (22 Dec 1998)  Page(s) 25.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 266-267.  Includes photo(s).
 
Gertrude Jekyll (AUSbord) Modern Shrub. Austin (UK) 1986. Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit... rich deep pink color...

Book  (Nov 1998)  Page(s) 84.  Includes photo(s).