It reminds me of what I have as 'Bella Donna'. Now the caveat there is that what I have as 'Bella Donna' is a foundling that's rather common in the NJ-PA area, often collected around cemeteries and old homes/gardens. Mine was given to me as a sucker from a plant collected in such a way. It's been known here as 'Bella Donna' for a long time -- I think Leonie Bell actually identified a rose she thought was 'Kazanlik' by matching it to something grown at the Wyck House in Germantown, PA that was called 'Bella Donna' -- and that rose has a documented history at the garden since it was originally purchased and planted. Here is her botanical illustration, labeled as 'Kazanlik' because that's what she thought it was originally.
But apparently what you get and see as 'Bella Donna' from nurseries and on HelpMeFind nowadays has a lighter petal color -- see below.
https://www.helpmefind.com/ros...
The 'Bella Donna' at my job is the "conventional" form with lighter-colored petals, as seen in most of the pics on HelpMeFind -- except this one.
https://www.helpmefind.com/ros...
If I recall correctly, the rose in Joe's garden is also a sucker from a collected 'Bella Donna', and possibly from the same source, since we have my source as a friend in common.
Is it a sport? Is it a totally different rose? I don't know. But that button eye, the prickles, the leaves -- it all looks like what I know as that. However, there are quite a few pink Gallicas and Damasks and Hybrid Gallicas (which have Centifolia ancestry) out there, so hopefully someone better acquainted with a larger number of these types will chime in. And after I put all this together in this post, it'd be funny if I was totally wrong! Hahaha.
:-)
~Christopher
