Magazine  (2000)  Page(s) 24. Vo9l 37, No. 1.  Includes photo(s).
 
Patricia Routley.  If I could Only Grow Ten Roses.
“Hampton St. Pink”.  In 2004 I met Brenda Wright who told me of two old hybrid teas at a tenanted house she owned.  The one that struck for me was overgrown by shrubbery and trees and in my garden it has taken a few years to grow on its own roots and show its beauty.  Roses here start behind the eight ball in the first place – poor acid soil, long wet cool winters, no spraying, own roots, a drink only once a fortnight if they’re lucky and a 74 year old owner who thinks they will survive only on her admiring gaze.  Mostly they do.  This rose is probably a member of the ‘Columbia’ family as it is thornless.  I might have to get it budded for my new 10-roses-garden in the sky.