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'Mrs. B.R. Cant' rose Reviews & Comments
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Available from - Vintage Gardens
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Mrs. Ben R. Cant. T. Mr Cant was a great English rose breeder who must have waited years to bestow on his wife in her name his finest creation.
My plant is like that in Hollywood Cemetery, in "The President's Circle," described in a previous member's comment. I live about 2 miles from it. Mine is as large as that, though a full ten years older (the Hollywood plant was planted about 10 years ago).
Mrs Cant needs little watering, granted, but it also seems disease proof and needs no spraying. It also is a full example of the 'cabbage rose', but very rarely balls even in wet, cold weather. It is rare in spring that it begins the year with dozens of large, full roses of an undistinguished pink. There is a small number of blooms in the summer, but in falll the best bloom, as usual, is the most colorful, some approaching a light red, and now comes the largest blossoms. Its early criticsim sometimes called it a bland color, but it never is displeasing.
The strong odor is the strange 'myrrh' scent mentioned only occasionally in other roses (another as I recall is named after another breeder's wife(?), Lilian Austin; my plant of that blackspotted, and its large, sprawling canes proved that it was planted in the wrong place.).
This T rose, Mrs Cant, is easy to grow, free of disease, flowers exceptionally fine in a formal shape of deep body and swirling petals, not tempermental in a hot damp climate like Richmond. One has a generous feeling toward any rose requiring so little care to give its best so often.
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Right now in the Houston area, the summer sun is like a blast furnace, and even though I give a deep water soaking to my established tea roses approx. every 10 days, several of my roses have a few leaves with crispy edges. Mrs. B.R. Cant isn't one of them. This is a very heat tolerant and drought tolerant rose. This is the rose to grow for areas like mine with high humidity, and heat index's of 110 degrees, with not a lot of summer rainfall.
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Carlene.......
Thank you for your report. I have updated the rose page to show that this rose is heat tolerant.
Smiles,
Lyn
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This is one of the best roses of all types in terms of heat resistance.
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I'd use the Gardens tab is it was obvious once you enter it how to add your location to it as a known place the rose grows. I'd like to add that there is an utterly huge specimen of Mrs. B.R. Cant growing at Hollywood Cemetery in the Presidents circle where President Monroe is buried. The cemetery is located in Richmond VA, USA, overlooking the James River in zone 7A. It is over 10 feet wide, probably more like 15 feet wide by about 8-9feet tall. Healthy as a horse too with no spraying or any care at all other than I think they mow around it to keep the weeds in check.
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