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A form of the species with creamy-white single flowers. I got it from Cotswold Garden Flowers who say: "Massed single cream flowers May-Jun, pretty foliage, reddish winter stems, neat bush to 1m. " R.V.Roger say: "Medium sized soft yellow single flowers have prominent stamens. Good disease resistance. .Discovered growing on the sand dunes at Dunwich, Suffolk, it flowers all along the arching stems above the ferny light green foliage, and is armed with thorns and prickles." Trevor White Roses add that it was introduced in 1950. In its essence, this is just a good selection of Rosa spinosissima from Suffolk. John Gerard's description of the species seems as illustrative as any more modern version: "The Pimpernell Rose is likewise on of the wilde ones, whose stalks shoote foorth of the ground in many places, of the height of two or three cubits, of a browne colour, and armed with sharpe prickles, which divide themseves towarde the tops into divers branches, wheron do grow leaves, consisting of divers small ones, set upon a middle rib like those of Burnet, which is called in Latine Pimpinella, whereupon it was called Rosa Pimpinella, the Burnet Rose. The flowers grow at the tops of the branches, of a white colour, very single, and like unto those of the Brier or Hep tree; after which come the fruit, blacke, contrary to all the rest of the Roses, round as an apple; whereupon some have called it Rosa Pomifera, or the Rose bearing Apples: wherein is contained seede, wrapped in chaffie or flockie matter, like that of the Brier. The roote is tough and woodie." |
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| 11th May 2007 | ||
