Very small creamy yellow rambler rose
Annyfran L
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Hello.
I'm staying at a house with a vigorous high mixed hedge in coastal North Norfolk. I'm entranced by a most beautiful tiny yellow rose which is growing healthily through and along the top and sides of the hedge - (sorry no photo - haven't got the right lead with me!) - its a single, cream yellow - only ever opens to a cup shape -very floriferous with tiny yellow cups (less than 1" diameter, all the way up a long approx 18" flowering stem. I'd have said it was a Rosa banxia apart from the single flowers and very very small composite leaves. Each individual leaf stem on the flowering stems has 9 leaf-lets(double pinnate -(so they come off the stem opposite each other - with a final leaf at the end) while the new whippy, mostly unflowering stems' composite leaves have sometimes 11 tiny leaves and sometimes 13. Each small leaf-let is approx between 5 to 7 mm in length.
The newer whippy stems have soft thorns and the flowering stems (last years growth) have small harder thorns.
Its really very beautiful - especially as these small yellow cups contrast so well with the solid green of the hedge thats supporting it. I've looked at pictures of the R.Banxia - and the leaves of the Banxia just look like more normal rose sized leaves (actually I have to say there are more normal sized leaves nearby - 7 leaves to the whole composite this time (no flowers though) ..so maybe the smaller leaves are the original, and the larger the sucker?
Thanks for your help -sorry if the terminology is a bit approximate ! Although I'd love to get hold of one of these roses, I suspect I am going to be told its just a lucky freak that happens sometimes to old roses. Hope not.
Annyfran L
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It sounds like Rosa xanthina 'Canary Bird', a shrub rose. and hands down one of the nicest roses IMHO. Does it look like this?
That certainly does look like it - although it never opens that widely. Sorry to be thick, what does IMHO mean?
Thanks!
IMHO In my humble opinion... sorry, of course!
Perhaps this one? Fits better with your description of it as a rambler.
R. banksiae 'Lutescens'
R. banksiae 'Lutescens'
Oh, that's beautiful! Sorry, nothing useful to add - just love this. Is it fragrant?
Sorry didn't see this til now. Think its more likely to the Rosa Banksiae Lutescens (thanks) since it was definitely a rambler. Come the summer I will put a photo up if I get the chance to see it again...since I think there's a just a chance it could be an interesting specimen. The tiny flowers did not open up as much as the photo here of the Lutescens. They stayed uniformly cup shaped.