Hi, I have looked all over the internet to buy a rose I planted in my yard at a house I sold 18 years ago. I would have bought it locally, not sure where, probably around 1991. I'm in Eugene Oregon.
It was a climber, with huge thick canes about 10-12 ft long.
The flower was HUGE, it would easily cover a salad plate and some dinner plates, at least 6" across. Lots of petals, so it almost never, until the end, showed the center of the flower. Bloomed singly on each branch with a tea-rose shape. Really quite covered with flowers, just not as heavily as the blaze or floribunda types. And I'm not kidding, the rose was HUGE, much bigger than my Abraham Lincoln or other bush Tea type roses.
It was colored a bit like a Joseph's Coat, only even MORE vibrant and varigated. This is my memory of the rose, and it's quite strong, I might be wrong on the base color, but the mixture was what I am listing. Each rose was a light pink or orangy pink background, sort of, with stripes and splotches of yellow and orange and rich reddish orange pink generously painted all over!. They were glorious! It was the one rose of all of them, that I had to show people!
I have old photos of it somewhere but haven't found it yet.
Any idea of what the name of this rose was so I can find it again? I "think" it might have "Caribbean" in the name, but not sure.
I want to find this rose and plant it as the foundation of my new rose garden at this place.
