Stephen Hoy recently sent out his lovely newsletter, Singularly Beautiful Roses, focusing on single petaled roses. Photos of Rose of Picardy and Morning Mist impressed me that perhaps Mr. Austin’s nursery had sneaked some Mutabilis pollen into their mix. One of the references states it’s “of the same Alba breeding as Heavenly Rosalind”, but all that means is Shropshire Lass is behind it once, and nothing in that cross accounts for those colors and earth tones. Take a look, what do you think?
Wow! Very unexpected Austin roses! Where have these been?
‘Morning Mist’ looks very appealing to me, wow! Not gonna lie this is probably the first time I think I’ve considered wanting an Austin rose… His stuff never really pushes my buttons which is weird considering his double forms are often rather attractive. Maybe it’s the tales of octopus canes and often less than stellar blackspot resistance here. But they’re very nice!
‘Morning Mist’ definitely looks like it has some ‘Mutablis’ in it’s blood-line. That sherbert color hits all my design likes. Imagine that being planted with things with powder-blue foliage like Zenobia pulverulenta ‘Woodlanders Blue’
Morning Mist reminds me a lot of Summer Wine, right down to the bees preferring it!
I clicked on the links as I was reading your post, Kim, and my very first thought was, it looks like Mutabilis, when I saw Morning Mist, before I got to your suggestion. I think you could very well be right!