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A warm apricot form of Rosa filipes, most often seen in its pure white 'Kiftsgate' form. Possibly less vigorous, but this one is still swallowing most of
the south side of my workshop. She has spread herself in liquid voluptuousness across the roof like a fat woman in a Rubens painting. It is not the strongest of buildings, and I can see the roof collapsing one windy night into a rosy pile of dereliction. As long as I'm not trapped in its coils a la Sleeping Beauty, I don't really care. Magnificent for a week (rarely two) in July and well worth fifty-one weeks of cascading prickly peril as I walk past it. The National Gardening Association say online: "Bred by Major Guy H. Tristram in Sussex UK, named after his second wife Kathleen aka 'Toby'. Hybridization date is not known but GHT died in 1963. " Roseland House Nursery say: "A very large rambler with pink tinged buds and very pale pink flowers, strongly scented the amount of flower produced is impressive, said to have been rediscovered by a Mrs Taggert in 1970 " |
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