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     Sandra Burket (Sburket) Bug Squisher Username: sburket Post Number: 37 Registered: 10-2004 |
Thanks, Jeri, I hope you'll share your Open Garden Day photos of this beautiful, and intriguing rose. Sandra | ||
| Jeri Jennings (Jeri) Supreme Crown Gall ! Username: Jeri Post Number: 793 Registered: 01-2006 |
No. It's in the Sacramento City Cemetery, however. It didn't bloom last year -- should bloom this spring -- and the leaves turned flaming red and yellow last Fall, so it is deciduous. I look forward to seeing it on April 12 -- Open Garden Day. Jeri | ||
| Sandra Burket (Sburket) Bug Squisher Username: sburket Post Number: 36 Registered: 10-2004 |
Jeri, Have you been able to ID this rose since your original post? Sandra | ||
| Jill Perry (Oldtearoses) Shovel Pruner Username: oldtearoses Post Number: 8 Registered: 09-2004 |
I wonder if it's related to Débutante- I've seen an occasional flower that's not uniform pink on that. This could be a sport. | ||
| Jeri Jennings (Jeri) Supreme Crown Gall ! Username: Jeri Post Number: 503 Registered: 01-2006 |
Different bloom form -- Not the same rose. And the name is pure co-incidence -- I named this one myself, standing on a streetcorner in the Sierra Foothills. BUT your "Peppermint China" is way cool! It also looks like something I'd like to have -- so thank you for the introduction to it. :-) Jeri | ||
| Barbara Blair (Hawkeye_belle) Greenhorn Username: Hawkeye Belle Post Number: 2 Registered: 09-2006 |
Here is a link to the photo. I hope it works. Barbara http://www.mooreroses.com/servlet/the-6/Peppermint-China/Detail | ||
| Jeri Jennings (Jeri) Supreme Crown Gall ! Username: Jeri Post Number: 502 Registered: 01-2006 |
Barbara, I don't think this rose is a China. The leaf form is wrong for a China, and the Stipules announce loudly that it has Multiflora breeding. The fact that not ALL of the stipules were fringed led us to suspect that it is Polyantha x Unknown. Fortunately, cuttings taken for the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden rooted, so we should be able to study it further in the future. Frankly, we don't even know for sure that it is remontant. We collected it in June of this year, so we don't yet have a track record on it. I recall having heard of "Peppermint China" but I've never SEEN it. I would love to hear more about it tho. Does Mooreroses.com have a photo? I'll go look! | ||
| Barbara Blair (Hawkeye_belle) Greenhorn Username: Hawkeye Belle Post Number: 1 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hi Jeri, I'm new here but your post caught my attention because I just acquired a found rose called Peppermint China. Your description of the blooms match my rose. Mine is not a climber and am wondering if your find is a China? I don't know anything about where is was found but can find out from the vendor, Mooreroses.com. The owner is a friend. TIA | ||
| Jeri Jennings (Jeri) Rowdy Rosarian Username: Jeri Post Number: 436 Registered: 01-2006 |
"Peppermint," because almost all of the small blooms are half white and half pink -- reminiscent of old-fashioned peppermint drops. Found in an old California Gold Rush town. Very full blooms, smaller in diameter than a quarter, and with a rudimentary button eye -- on a plant that grows through an ancient picket fence, waves in the breeze of passing cars, and cascades down an old retaining wall. Blooms appear all along the canes on short laterals. Foliage is very shiny -- and look at the stipules (shown top center). This plant is OLD. The once-white-painted fence has the strength of old paper mache. Push through a thicket of Tree Of Heaven and other weeds and you find a set of steps leading up and through the retaining wall. At the top, there is a gate that hasn't opened in a long time. I could knock it over easily, but I do not. A small cottage is falling into pieces. In the "dooryard" there is an old lilac bush. A most romantic setting -- but unphotographable without smashing the gate to get in. What is the rose?  |