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The roses listed
in this group are lovely garden roses we have come across in other
people's gardens and have not yet been able to identify. We have found
several unnamed varieties worth propagating to plant in our nursery
garden and some very worth propagating for sale. Our favourite is
the tall, almost climbing, dark pink and fragrant Old Garden rose
growing on the back of the Seabreeze Lodge on Hornby Island: The Seabreeze
Rose [currently out of stock]. It is similar to the also very fragrant
bright pink Old Nanaimo Rose found in [where else?] an old Nanaimo
garden. Others worth saving are several older climbers we found along
the old Molson Brewery plant on 12th and Arbutus in Vancouver before
both the building and the two block fence-line of roses were demolished
a few years ago (custom propagation only). Granny Savoie, a small
flowered purple Gallica, is apparently found near fishing wharves
on the Islands, perhaps having been moved about by fishermen in the
old days.
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