Article (newspaper)  (Jan 2014)  Page(s) 2.  Includes photo(s).
 
Patricia Routley: The very first cutting of a rose I ever struck was one from Lorna van Hazendonk in 1988. At that time I was begging cuttings from everywhere trying to tame the wilderness with some softening and civilised garden plants. I explored and grew a good selection of native plants in those early days but overall, I found they did not last to build the basic structure of a garden. I would plan and colour co-ordinate and dig and plant – and then within three years they mostly all died and I would be back to square one again with just the dead, scraggly bodies to get rid of. Lorna was my nearest neighbour and amongst the various cuttings she shared with me was an un-named rose. It had a fairly distinctive bloom and I was able to pin a name to it fairly early in my perusals of the rose books. Rose Gaujard sometimes has split centres and this was a fault, according to the judges of the rose shows. As a gardener who has never exhibited or shown roses at all, I couldn’t care less how the bud opens. I only ask that the rose touch my heart with its beauty and its history. This rose is a hybrid tea, blooming singly, and is basically white, flushed pale pink and edged carmine, with a silver reverse. In my photographed rose, the colours are darker than it normally is. ‘Rose Gaujard’ was planted in the first rose bed to the north of the house and which is by now so infested with various tree roots, that I can no longer dig in it. Roses planted there have had to be survivors and this rose actually has a bit of a reputation for being a survivor. On its own roots here it has made a massive callus about 30cm wide from which 1m canes still spring up around the edges. On rootstock it is said to be tall and branching. The blooms are not adversely affected by rain so it is a good rose for this area in spring. It was bred in 1957 by Monsieur Jean-Marie Gaujard, the man who took over the famous Pernet-Ducher nursery after the death in 1928 of Pernet-Ducher. Mons. Gaujard did not breed all that many successful roses, but he obviously was so proud of this rose (some say he was blowing his own trumpet) that he gave it his own name, calling it ‘Rose Gaujard’. It was bred from ‘Peace’ x an ‘Opera’ seedling in 1957 and it inherited ‘Peace’s dark green leaves. It promptly won two Gold Medals and if I were Mons. Gaujard, I would have blown that trumpet hard and long. I was 17 at the time ‘Rose Gaujard was bred and the only things that interested me then were high heels and romance. 56 years later I am really happy to have this rose as a memoire of my neighbour, the early days starting a garden here, and the first signs of my utterly absorbing hobby of studying and researching roses.

Book  (Feb 2009)  Page(s) 132 (photo), 133.  Includes photo(s).
 
‘Rose Gaujard’: Hybride de Thé. Parents: ‘Mme Antoine Meilland’ x semis de ‘Opera’. Obtenteur: Gaujard, 1957. …cette variété qui supporte bien le froid, donne de bons résultats dans les climats océaniques frais… Facile à cultiver, ce rosier peut être recommandé aux débutants…

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 516, 517 (photo).  
 
Rose Gaujard Description... cherry red with a reverse of pale pink and silvery white...

Book  (Jul 1996)  Page(s) 38.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rose Gaujard Large-flowered bush (Hybrid Tea) Gaujard (France) 1957 ('Gaumo') Description.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 517.  
 
Rose Gaujard® Hybrid Tea, red blend, 1957, (GAUmo); 'PEace' x 'Opera' seedling; Gaujard. Description.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 208.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rose Gaujard Large-flowered hybrid tea. Parentage: 'Peace' x 'Opéra' seedling. (aka GAUmo) France 1957. Description and cultivation... flowers: carmine-red with a silvery white to blush reverse, giving a bicolous effect... a good rose for exhibition and for cutting...

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 126 (photo), 127.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rose Gaujard (Gaumo) A popular Hybrid Tea raised by Gaujard and introduced by Armstrong in 1957. Parentage: 'Peace' x 'Opera' seedling.

Website/Catalog  (1983)  Page(s) 13.  
 
ROSE GAUJARD ® (Gaumo) Rouge cerise à revers argenté. 65/75 cm. Plante très robuste et florifère. Belle rose magnifiquement formée. Gros buissons.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 47.  
 
Rose Gaujard A full shapely rose of silver and pink on a very strong plant. Extremely healthy and enhanced by an abundance of glossy foliage. Tall. Gaujard 1958.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 4.  
 
Rose Gaujard ® Gaumo Gaujard 1957. Magnifique rose au frais coloris rouge vermillon, passant au rose argenté dans le centre. Beau feuillage, belle végétation.