The Shell Rose (Reine Victoria)

Description

aka ‘Reine Victoria’, and ‘Mary Lawrence’s Shell Rose’ I look forward to seeing this rose in bloom. The bloom in the photo resembles Burgundian Rose. However The Shell Rose seems to have larger foliage and, perhaps, a larger bloom. This rose is in our Ashdown Collection. HelpMeFind gives this account, “Bob Edberg got this rose from John McGregor at the Huntington Botanical Garden. Paul Zimmerman gave a plant to Francois Joyeaux and he says it indeed is a Gallica/China [by DNA Test] but he could not give it a definite ID.”