(May 2015)  Page(s) 11. Vol 36, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Peter Holmes, President Bermuda Rose Society.
"Bermuda's Kathleen" was thought to be the Hybrid Musk 'Kathleen', but this was subsequently disproved at the WFRS Convention in Toronto in 1985. DNA analysis determined that "Bermuda's Kathleen" is not a sport of 'Mutabilis', but may be a hybrid, i.e. grown from seed as a chance seedling. 'Mutabilis' could be a parent of "Bermuda's Kathleen" but at this stage in the studies it could not be determined whether a pollen parent or seed parent."Bermuda's Kathleen" was found to be 'very Chinese in its constituents: meaning it seems very close to the wild Chinese roses analysed so far.

(May 2015)  Page(s) 14. Vol 36, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Peter Holmes, President Bermuda Rose Society.
"Soncy" was found growing at a house named Soncy in Point Shares. At first it was thought to be 'Isabella Sprunt', the yellow sport of 'Safrano', but Dr. Charles Walker saw it in 1984 and remarked that while "Soncy" is fully double, 'Isabella Sprunt' is semi-double. In Bermuda "Soncy" has been found difficult to slip. DNA analysis at a laboratory in Montreal, Canada, has shown that "Soncy', 'Alexander Hill Gray' and 'Amazone' appear to share at least a partial genetic origin. At Vintage Gardens in California "Soncy" is thought to be identical to 'Alexander Hill Gray'

(May 2015)  Page(s) 15. Vol 36, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Peter Holmes, President Bermuda Rose Society.I
"Trinity" is one of the loveliest of the Mystery Roses. A bush of this rose was first found growing just inside the wall at Holy Trinity Church in Bailey's Bay. Fortunately, members of the Society took slips so that "Trinity" still blooms there on a child's grave. The long pointed buds are pale pink opening into pure white loose 4in. (10cm) flowers. A constant bloomer.

(May 2015)  Page(s) 11. Vol 36, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Peter Holmes, President Bermuda Rose Society.
"Bermuda Windchines". At one time thought to be the Hybrid Musk 'Windchimes', it is a small 3 1/2 ft. (Im) bush that produces large sprays of pointed hot-pink buds (as many as 12 in a spray), which open to small single flowers, of bright shocking-pink with white centres showing off the yellow stamens. Blooms all year and produces tiny orange hips.

(May 2015)  Page(s) 11. Vol 36, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Peter Holmes, President Bermuda Rose Society.
"Bermuda's Pink Pet" looks and grows like a Polyantha, certainly not like a China. Small, shiny dark green, finely serrated foliage, suggests Wichurana ancestry. "Bermuda's Pink Pet" blooms appear to be similar to "Caldwell Pink", an American Found rose. This rose may not be either a Polyantha or a China. Further studies are to be undertaken.

(May 2015)  Page(s) 11. Vol 36, No. 3.  Includes photo(s).
 
Peter Holmes, President Bermuda Rose Society.
"Bessie's Rose" a yellow Hybrid Tea came to Bermuda in a bouquet of roses from un-named, unregistered Hybrid Tea seedlings at 'the Rose Test Gardens of the New York Botanic Garden. Considered unsuccessful, these seedlings 'were subsequently destroyed. The bouquet had been presented to Miss Bessie Ramsbottom during a visit to the Test Gardens. One rose was propagated by her nephew, Basil Hall, and has adapted fairly well to Bermuda conditions. This rose was named "Bessie's Rose" on the occasion of her 100th birthday in 1994.

(1986)  Page(s) 18-23. Vol 7, No. 3.  
 
'Betsy Broughton'. (Boyd), 1809. Blush pink cupped blooms. Fine fern-like foliage like a Scotch Brier. Diameter 4cm. Single. 5 petals. October to early December. Prob. Rosa rugosa. Very thorny, about 1m high.

(1986)  Page(s) 18-23. Vol 7, No. 3.  
 
'Beverley Anne'. late flowering small flowered lavender pink rambler. Blooming in December. Unknown parentage.

(1991)  Page(s) 24-25. Vol 12, No. 2.  
 
A fortuitous seedling of 'Tausendschon' I have named after my son's wife Beverley Anne, which I have used on tall standards as weeping roses, with fragrant lavender pink flowers in clusters.

(1986)  Page(s) 18-23. Vol 7, No. 3.  
 
'Billie Shepherd'. Pink. 6cm diameter. 5 to 15 blooms per cluster. 40 petals. Blooming October to November.