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Honeysuckle Cottage - Roses of History and Romance
(1999) Page(s) 39. The Great white and Cream Roses of the Century: HT. A Kordes rose in the style of heritage roses with more than a hundred petals forming a very large intensely fragrant bloom in an exquisite suffusion of cream touched with light pink and softest apricot. A strong and hardy grower. New [in the nursery] 1999
(1999) Page(s) 42. Avebury. A healthy rambler rose with large heads of soft light pink, semi-double flowers each up to 7.5cm in diameter borne along every cane. The whole effect is airy and charming, ideal for a large arch or pergola. The flowers have a strong sweet scent. New. 1995.
(1999) Page(s) 33. Baxter Beauty. A cream sport of ‘Lorraine Lee’ and even more beautiful. The flower colour can change during the year from cream to sulphur and may be lightly blushed with apricot pink. New (in the nursery?) 1988
(1996) Page(s) 43. Rambler Roses. Blush Rambler 1903. Reminiscent of cherry blossom, these soft pink small flowers are semi-double fading to milk white in the centre with golden stamens and are borne in posy-like clusters along the branches. A medium rambler up to 5m, pale green foliage, almost thornless, delightful scent. New 1995.
(1996) Page(s) 43. "Brownlow Hill Rambler. Wichuriana Hybrid. Not yet identified but a delightful spring flowering vigorous climber with clusters of medium-sized very double pale pink blossoms with unexpected peach pink depths to the centre and the strongest fragrance of ripe apples. The foliage is superb, extremely glossy deep green and disease-proof. We rate it with our best. From historic ‘Brownlow Hill’, country estate of Alexander Macleay who built Elizabeth Bay House in Sydney.
(1999) Page(s) 8. Damask Roses. "Campbelltown Rose" This one has defied identification to date but is a quite common colonial planting around Sydney. The stems are almost devoid of thorns. It is tall growing and weighed down in season with very double cupped very sweetly fragrant blooms of rose pink.,
(1999) Page(s) 43. ‘Chalice Well’. A drought resistant healthy rambler rose breaking along every cane with posy like clusters of smallish milk white flowers with a lemon centre that fades with age and intense sweet musk fragrance that carries on the air. Like the rose ‘Shakespeare’s Musk Rose’, the flowers may be single or semi-double.
(1999) Page(s) 34. Cherub. Large-flowered Rambler Rose. 1923. A very healthy strong growing Rambler Rose with glossy rich green foliage and a profusion of large semi-double cupped flowers in salmon to rose silk, in clusters, in spring.
(1996) Page(s) 18. Dr. Grill. Tea. 1886 The flowers are quite exquisite, very large, very full, very double, creamy pink blushed deeper pink. the shrub is large and open and responds to regular pruning. The fragrance is delightfully old fashioned.
1992, 1995 and 1998 catalogues have identical description.
(2010) Page(s) 9. Tea Roses. ['Dr. Grill' not listed.]
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