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Any hope of an English language version?
Roses and poems - I feel deprived.
Denis

Touché.

But never mind, Denis, you and I can have our own pôme.

There was a young lady from Bright,
who travelled at the speed of light.
She went out one day,
in a relative way,
and came back the previous night.

Sorry Denis and Angharad - can't do the poem but once I get home I can supply some details about the rose. There is a rose that flowers around midsummer and is named after it, but it is white and I didn't have a picture. So I resorted to a picture I took in NZ recently.
Thanks Angharad for giving Denis his poem.

Indeed, thanks Angharad - so nice of you to acknowledge my need for a poem.

Roses are the most over-named of plants. The marketers run the nursery business, these days, unfortunately. Iceberg is the most popular rose in the world, but it is hardly a good rose by most standards (poor shape, no perfume, not long enough in the stem for cutting). However, it is unkillable. It should be re-named Unkillable Rose, but it doesn't sound as poetic.

I hope the "Midsummer Night's Dream Rose" (or whatever) is a nice rose, Anni. The pink one looked pretty.
Denis

Harvinainen ilmiö leveyksillämme: juhannusruusu kukkii juhannuksena!

Voi, minä rakastin tuota Mustapään runoa pienenä! En ollut muistanut sitä pitkään aikaan. Kiitos :)

Lovely limerick, too!

Sanna puhuu siis Oulun leveyksistä, suom. huom.

Ole hyvä, Tosikko - en ollut minäkään muistanut, osui silmään sattumalta ihan muuta runoa etsiessä.

Dennis, here you can read something about midsummer rose in english. http://puutarha.net/ruususeura/c-englanti/Articles/Joy/rose-traditions-3.html

And I have checked my notes from NZ (where the pale pink rose comes from) but am not much wiser. I think it was one of many, clearly very old roses in the Wellington Botanic Gardens - I remember having admired several hybrid tea roses bred by a man called McGredy but am no longer sure if this was one of them.
Sorry!

Sanna, Thank you for that link. What a wonderful website on Finnish Roses.

Anni, The Midsummer Rose is obviously a favourite. Presumably it is a tough rose, too - that usually helps a plant be popular - so everybody can grow it.
The Pimpinellifolia group were traditional in Scotland, so presumably they are suited to the cold.
They are not very common in Australia. Probably for climatic reasons.

Kordes, in Germany, used this group of roses as a parent for his Fruhlings... series, Fruhlingsgold, Fruhlingsmorgen. As the names suggest, they are all spring flowerers. Presumably the other parent was an early flowerer. These roses grow well here, but flower early, and only flower once. Very thorny.

Re New Zealand roses, McGredy is a relatively recent migrant to NZ, from Northern Ireland. He is a famous rose breeder, but not of old roses. He is working on brightly coloured, and multi-coloured roses. So, your photo is much more likely to be one of the old roses from the Botanic Gdns.
Denis

Yes, Denis, the Midsummer roses are extremely thorny, too. And thanks for the McGredy info!