Is She The Duchesse?
Saturday, June 24, 2017
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| June 24 2017 |
At one time in our old Kerrisdale garden we had plant
labels for all our plants. This meant that if I did not consider my Rosemary’s
many perennials I had 600-plus labels for my hostas and 85 for my roses. Since
our move and even before our move labels were lost and now we have quite a few
mystery plants in our Kitsilano garden.
One of them is a rose which I am sure is the
Centifolia/hybrid perpetual (they cannot make up their mind on this one) Rosa ‘Duchesse
de Rohan’.
It bloomed a bit later than all my Gallicas and the only way
I will eventually be able to identify it will happen if it re-blooms. Hybrid
Perpetuals ( an inaccurate misnomer) do bloom more than once. So if in the fall
it blooms she will be the Duchesse.
For those who might want to explore who she was here is the
Wikipedia citation.
