A post has appeared on Garden Web about this. Rosa Banksiae “Rosea”
Sizes available from a French nursery.
The translation from the French catalog is below. The photo on the Larch site and the one on Photobucket at this link seem more like a rerelease of an old rambler with nothing in common with Banksiae. Kim
Thornless climbing rose, extremely vigorous and generous flowering. Flowering, a profusion of small pink double flowers, in the spring, hence the name Rose in May They are grouped in clusters along stems almost thornless. The foliage is healthy, dark green, smooth and tough but also a rare thing for a rosebush Grimp (…)
Origin: Introduced into France in 1807. Well it certainly isn’t something that is patented.
I grew a plant by this name years ago.
I have raised a lot of Banksiae hybrids and there are no this species characteristics I can see.
IMHO it is a smooth multiflora rambler as it was PM ridden it was SP after one year…
Thank you Pierre. Your description resembles greatly how Tausendschon performed for me and what I did with it. This rose resembles Tausendshon to me.
Tausendschon is much more beautiful than the one sold as Banksiae Rosea
Tausendschon is much more beautiful than the one sold as Banksiae Rosea
Banksiae Rosea apparantly does exist in China, Helga Brichet has seen it, obtaining it won’t be easy.
There was a recent thread on the Q&A on HMF about a rose purchased in Australia as ‘Pink Banksiae’. Hopefully, this will take you to it. The rose was determined to be a hybrid multiflora, renamed by a nursery.
I can get this but I will not. I doubt it will die in a zone 6 winter, even under a plastic bag’s protection, just like another evergreen rose——Rosa laevigata.
If you can get Banksiae rosea and it IS a Banksiae, it would be worthwhile spreading it around where it will live.
