Another
rose whose blooms took me a couple of years to see was
'Ferdianand
Pichard' (at right), most likely from its being in a spot continually
missed
by the sprinkler and also fairly inaccessible. These past two summers,
newly nurtured by a sprinkler line, it finally burst forth, and I quickly took a photograph when I managed
to
be in that inaccessable place to see it.
Among
other striped roses like 'Ferdinand Pichard' are 'Honorine de
Brabant',
a Bourbon rose with crimson and mauve stripes (date of introduction
unknown);
the relatively new 'Scentimental', a striped burgundy and white
Floribunda bred by Tom Caruth and introduced in 1997; and the famous
'York and Lancaster',
an
antique
rose known to be in existence before 1550. 'York and Lancaster', a fragrant summer Damask, is classified as a shrub because of its growth
habit. Its arching canes carry sprays of pink, white, and pink
and
white striped semidouble blossoms on a tall bush. 
rose" with full peachy pink clusters of
double blossoms on quite arching canes. The canes show nicely in the
landscape as dark red. The double quotation marks bracketing the name
of this rose indicate the status of the rose as still under study. The
name of
the rose, "Champagne Arches," is therefore subject to change if the
variety is
found to be an actual named variety –
somewhere, by someone. So
far, according
to the description in the High Country Roses catalog, the rose is known only as
a probable Rosa blanda
hybrid.
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