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    most recent 23 AUG 18  
    Rose"Brooks Rose (W.A. AUS)”
    Initial post 4 JUN 15 by Margaret Furness
    This rose is the ultimate survivor (except when sons get into the garden). It has turned up in every state of Australia, and even in a derelict garden on Balladonia station, in the Nullarbor.
    Reply #1 posted 4 JUN 15 by lynh
    I know- he sprayed it thinking it was a balckberry ! Do you know anyone in NSW with one I could get a runner from ?
    Reply #2 posted 23 AUG 18 by Margaret Furness
    Did you manage to get hold of a plant? If not, we have a spare budded onto Dr Huey, which I could post to you. Send me a private message with your address, if you want one.
    most recent 22 FEB 16  
    Rose"Brooks Rose (W.A. AUS)”
    Initial post 22 FEB 16 by Patricia Routley
    I was simply amazed the other day to see a lone hip on a bush of my "Mrs. Something" (from a Denmark, W.A. fence in 1995). It was the first time I have ever seen a hip on my six bushes in 21 years. The rose is growing next to a R. eglanteria. A photograph is too large to upload and cut-cat syndrome here prevents me from doing more than just report this one turning-orange, oval-ish hip.

    Later edit. Hip sown, but nothing eventuated.
    most recent 4 JUN 15  
    Rose"Brooks Rose (W.A. AUS)”
    Initial post 4 JUN 15 by lynh
    Patricia, I had this beautiful Brooks Rose and my son accidentally killed it ! Where can I get another please !!
    most recent 17 JUN 11  
    Rose"Brooks Rose (W.A. AUS)”
    Initial post 14 JUN 11 by Patricia Routley
    'Mme. Desprez' continues to haunt me as a possibly identification for the “Brooks Rose”.
    ‘Mme. Desprez’ was a child of ‘Rose Edouard’ and I believe the colour of ‘Rose Edouard’ was about the same as our foundling, the "Brooks Rose".

    Mme. Desprez produced just one first generation offspring – and that was ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’. The form of the bloom of Malmaison is somewhat the same as our foundling.

    One other problem with this theory is, because the “Brooks Rose” sets no hips, and if it is ‘Mme. Desprez’, how did Mons. Beluze fertilise this rose to produce ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’?
    Reply #1 posted 16 JUN 11 by jedmar
    Hi Pat, I have added 3 more offspring to 'Mme Desprez'! See also the references, which has the first mention of a possible parentage of SdlM in 1879. It seems 'Mme Desprez' of M. Beluze had a lot of seed.
    Reply #2 posted 16 JUN 11 by Patricia Routley
    Yes I saw two of the offspring yesterday and knew you were helping.
    I also added the 2005 reference in which Peter Harkness said 'Mme. Desprez' proved a fecund ancestor. That, and the 1879 'Souvenir de la Malmaison' reference which says " there is a great similarity of habit and foliage between" .... ['Mme. Desprez and 'Souvenir de la Malmaison'] tells me that I had better let this possible identification go and to look for something else. The only similarity I can see in the foliage is that they both have five leaflets. And I have never seen a hip on the "Brooks Rose" - could it be my damp climate? Both roses ball (she adds in desperation). Oh well - it did sound pretty good for a while there. Thanks Jedmar
    Reply #3 posted 17 JUN 11 by jedmar
    Of course, it could be that our 'Mme Desprez' is incorrect!
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