'Constance ' comments & questions

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petera

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Discussion id : 120-602 most recent 26 MAR 20 SHOW ALL

Initial post 21 MAR 20 by HMF supporting member

Margaret Furness

I'm so pleased to see some of the rarities from Renmark being spread around. We have lost the source of many of them, Thomas for Roses, first from closing of the nursery and then from bushfire this summer; and the rows of early HTs and Pernetianas and 19th C foundlings at Renmark are effectively lost too.	REPLY

Reply #1 of 2 posted 23 MAR 20 by HMF supporting member

petera

Thanks Margaret. I have a personal interest in these varieties because I helped collect the budwood in 47 degree temperatures at Renmark. We had to be out there at first light each day and finished by 9am as the temperature would get unbearable.
I am accumulating enough Pernetianas now to appreciate the way the breeders developed the lineages and and brought them into the mainstream of HTs but we have lost so many. I would kill for a genuine Margaret McGredy rather than the imposters that are floating around, and as for the Queen Alexandra Rose.........

Reply #2 of 2 posted 26 MAR 20 by HMF supporting member

Margaret Furness

47 doesn't bear thinking of... If you don't have Mrs Arthur Robert Waddell or Shot Silk I can send cuttings when it suits you. Also a rather spindly spare potted plant of Angele Pernet, which is on Dr Huey (better suited to alkaline soils).	REPLY