I don’t have the CRL, but was wondering if anyone knows of a US source for Cooper’s Burmese? That would make my week. Thanks =)
(from australia…)
a prominent early rosarian here, alister clark, had an enormous collection of roses and bred many r. gigantea hybrids. in the late 70’s, a few of us became interested in saving some of his introductions, most of which had dropped from the trade. in re-discovering clark’s roses, we were given access to his former garden which still had many old plants. among them was a clone of something very similar to r. laevigata, but with a smooth peduncle and recepticle. cooper’s burmese rose is supposed to be laevigata x gigantea or odorata, giving the softer, smoother look. we wonder if this is in fact cooper’s burmese rose. rogers and phillips has a small pic and text. i could possible find some seed of this roses if other sources fail…
rob…