Magazine  (10 May 2019)  
 
[From "The bittersweet history of the 'Englishwoman's garden' " by Robin Lane Fox]

I knew the succession at Kiftsgate since 1919: Heather Muir, her daughter Diany Binny and nowadays Diany’s daughter, Anne Chambers. I did not know how good the garden already was in the Muir years.....Nearly 30 years before the famous White Garden at Sissinghurst began, she had a white garden at Kiftsgate. ...The garden has been a haven for very rare plants, received as presents or cleverly acquired by one or other owner. There is far more to it than its most celebrated item, the wildly rampant white-flowered Rosa filipes Kiftsgate. Muir bought this monster of a rose in error in 1938. It is a viciously thorny scrambler, utterly unsuitable for smaller gardens and now nearly 60ft high and wide.

Article (newsletter)  (Nov 2017)  Page(s) 15.  
 
A rather famous sport of R. filipes was discovered in England at Kiftsgate Court, Gloucestershire, and was introduced in 1954 by botanist, environmental activist, and nurserywoman Hilda Murrell—who was abducted and murdered in 1984 just prior to presenting an anti-nuclear paper on radioactive waste management. In 2003 ‘Kiftsgate’ had grown 85 feet into a copper beech tree at the estate where its seedling was first found. A

Book  (Aug 2002)  Page(s) 52.  
 
Kiftsgate
Rated 8.9

Website/Catalog  (23 Oct 1998)  Page(s) 31.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 245, 246.  Includes photo(s).
 
Page 245: [PHOTO]
Page 146: Kiftsgate Murrell (UK) 1954. Sport or form of R. filipes, found at Kiftsgate Court, Gloucestershire, England. Description and cultivation... flowers: creamy-white...

Book  (Oct 1996)  Page(s) 38.  
 
Kiftsgate Description... Huge, scented, cascading panicles of creamy-white single flowers with yellow stamens appear in midsummer, followed by lots of little red autumnal hips...

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 212-213.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa filipes 'Kiftsgate'
The only form I have seen... is...probably from the Roseraie de l'Häy, by E. A. Bunyard....A plant was purchased from him by Mrs Muir about 1938, and still grows strongly at Kiftsgate Court....The shoots are richly tinted with brown and copper, the the leaves are light green with 5 to 7 leaflets. When in flower or fruit it is a most astonishing sight: the corymbs of blossom may be 18 inches across, composed of a hundred or more small, cupped, creamy white flowers with yellow stamens, borne on thread-like stalks. These slender stalks give it the name 'filipes'. [ according to Michael L. Charters of calfora.net, "filipes: from the prefix fili- meaning "threadlike" and pes, Latin for "foot," hence "with threadlike stalks"] Small oval heps.
This particular form is being distributed...as 'Kiftsgate', thus distinguishing it from other possibly inferior forms of Rosa filipes....It takes some years to become established...
Botanical Magazine, t. 8894. A plate and description of the wild species. The Kiftsgate rose appears to be very near if not identical.

Book  (Mar 1994)  Page(s) 98.  Includes photo(s).
 
Kiftsgate Climber. E. Murrell 1954. Description and vital statistics... cream white, small, less than 1 in... With marvellous bunches of long-lasting, small, oval-round, deep orange-red hips in fall... vulnerable to frost...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 287.  
 
Kiftsgate Species, creamy white, single, 1954, ('Filipes Kiftsgate'); A form of R. filipes; E. Murrell. Description.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 160.  Includes photo(s).
 
Kiftsgate (R. filipes Kiftsgate) Filipes climber. Parentage: Form of R. filipes. England 1954. Description and cultivation... This rose originated at Kiftsgate Court in Gloucestershire where it is now quite enormous having climbed up and through a large copper beech and also worked its way through a large part of the formal rose garden... cascading sprays of creamy white... Indulged to its fullest it may equal the original rose growing to around 15 m (50 ft)...