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'Souvenir of Wootton' rose Reviews & Comments
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Available from - Glenorie Roses
brucetreloar@gmail.com
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Are you sure of the veracity of this one Ozeboy? I thought only the climber was available in Australia.
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#2 of 12 posted
23 APR 10 by
kev
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ozeboy is quiet correct here .the best source is our mr.rose himself David Ruston of Renmark who lists it and has it in his collection.his list is available online and is a great reference to have.kev.
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Hello kev. I do see in David's 2003-2004 Collection listing, on p36 that he is listing 'Souvenir of Wootton' hybrid tea, 1888. However correspondence from Pat Toolan and Margaret Furness who have spent much time in David's garden helping him to prune etc, wrote to me in 2006: <i>"Once again we were stopped in our tracks by .....and yet again by a pillar rose labeled 'Souvenir of Wootton', but which appears to be its sport 'Climbing Wootton' circa 1897 HT from Butler/Craig – bright magenta red full blooms beckoning us from afar." </i>
Perhaps when someone is next at Renmark, they could confirm for you that the plant at David Ruston's garden is the 1897 climber, and not the 1888 bush.
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#3 of 12 posted
24 APR 10 by
 Cass
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It would be nice to see a photo of the rose.
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we have the only souvenir de wootton in existance (that we know of) here in Baltimore, a cutting was sent to us from sangerhousen and the original plant there has since been destroyed. I will upload some photos but helpmefind has to approve of those and post them. our wootton is growing in a public garden and we have successfully rooted cuttings
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The plant at Renmark has been hacked back to bush size. When we first saw it, it was behaving like a pillar rose.
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A plant at Renmark, grown from the original one on David Ruston's property, is definitely a climber. I'll photograph it when it's in flower.
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We look forward to seeing that Margaret.
Here is a rose which came to me as 'Souvenir of Wootton' and my provenance reads something like: Rustons-1; a lady-2; a man who budded it on to R. multiflora-3; a nursery who shipped it to WA-4; in 2009. To date it has not climbed, but in this garden I wouldn't place too much importance on that. I have listed it in my garden records as 'Climbing Wootton'. However, I am having difficulty in reconciling my rose with the photo of 'Clg. Wootton' in the Heritage Roses in Australia journal Winter 2006, page 58.
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I think we got a wrong'un the first time round from the same source, and had it re-budded. I'll have to wait till it flowers to double-check the one we have now. The original plant is still there, if needed.
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Re the photo of 'Clg. Wootton' in the Heritage Roses in Australia journal Winter 2006, page 58. It may have been the rose that was circulating as 'Argosy'?
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That issue is of course the one missing from my collection. But if it's the photo I posted on hmf under Cl Wootton, the plant wasn't / isn't growing among Clark roses. There are Clark roses growing isolated elsewhere at Ruston's, but that's as much as I can offer till flowering season.
14 Nov 2014: I missed the spring flush, but have posted a whole-plant photo to show that what we have in the HRIAI Collection is definitely a climber.
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#12 of 12 posted
8 JUN 19 by
Ms.Lefty
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Todd - Fellow Baltimoron here! I'm wondering whether your Souvenir de Wooten is still alive and growing (at Cylburn, I assume), and whether you (or anybody else) been able to propagate it.
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