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Hello,
I am trying to find out a name of a rose that my Mother had in her yard from the time I was small... It has always been there for as long as I can remember. Now Mother has passed on and the property was sold.... my daughter was suppose to go and dig up at least a part of the rose... but didn't get to before they bulldozed it :(. I have a picture of it and will post it with this. It only bloomed one time a year, was normally in late April or May and was usually finished by Memorial Day. It was like a shrub type that kept spreading out each year. It has a wonderful old rose fragrance that would fill your house with just a few blooms. It bloomed also in clusters... and it would be covered with pinkish, purple blooms... I just am heart sick that I didn't get a piece of this rose.... I do know it isn't Knock Out... if anyone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it. I wrote to the Rose Society before and got no where with it...
Thanks so much
Vickie email - Shyanne652@aol.com
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#1 of 4 posted
27 FEB 06 by
Wendy C
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I'm not very familiar with old garden roses, so I'm sorry I can't ID this rose for you.
I would suggest you try an advanced search. On the left hand there is a selection for 'Roses' click there.
On that page on the top there are tabs, select 'advanced search'.
I did a search using just bloom for ; semi-double to double, once blooming
Color classifications for these older roses can be frustrating, and we don't know what type of rose it is so those I left blank. See if any of the roses this search brings up come close to your Mother's rose. You could also try; Double, once blooming.
Good luck
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Thank you so much, I will give that a try... I tried to post a picture but for some reason it won't upload...
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#3 of 4 posted
27 FEB 06 by
Wendy C
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Vickie, the picture is viewable in this post and another one. I can't say why it doesn't show up for you. It was a lovely arching rose bush. It's hard to see the blooms very well. But a nice whole bush shot.
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Hi Vickie, Could your rose possibly be Seven Sisters? When you mentioned both pink and purple on the bush, I immediately thought of this old cascading rambler that once blooms, has a strong fragrance, and whose flowers take on different shadings as they age on the bush. Take a look at the photos for Seven Sisters on the Help Me Find page and see if you see a resemblance. I can! Claire, St Louis, Missouri
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