Need help finding the name of a bush rose

[EweSheep]

Many years ago, my sister's neighbor has one pair of bush roses, small dainty, carnation smelling roses. It grew up to six to eight feet tall and roughly five feet wide at the base. Mostly white, with a hint of pink or yellow near the throat of the rose, near the stems. Smelled spicey, very much like a carnation, not a rose. It could not have been more than three to four inches wide, tightly budded like a double impatient/carnation.

All I know or can remember it was a gentleman's name. However there was one speciality catalog that devotes just to all kinds of roses, had that in the catalog but I threw it away when I was moving. It is not a celebrity or someone well known in the last 20 years. The neighbor said the rose bushes have been there before they bought the house so it is around 30 years old.

I am not sure of the name but something like "Carl" or "Karl"????? I am really trying to remember...

Is there a website I can find out this unknown guy's name for roses? Something i can type in or check in catagories instead of reading page by page to find out?

Or a wild idea, a DNA typing can tell me what type of rose this is??????? It has not been exposed to any other roses except of its own sibling. I do not know which places I can find out for sure who my rose plant came from.

 

[Whispering Winds]

I know what you are talking about . . . .cannot think of that last name so save my life . . . .can you google old type roses and see if it comes up? I would guess Rugosa, since it sounds like one . . .I bet if you google rose companies, you will find it!!!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

www.antiqueroseemporium.com/

Check out this site. It has a zillion heirloom roses of all sorts and you can search by all sorts of criteria. Was the name Cecile Brunner?

 

[Cindiloohoo]

David Barber?

 

[Cindiloohoo]

Here's Wikipedia list of roses named after people. There are 4 Karl roses on there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rose_cultivars_named_after_people

 

[EweSheep]

It does look very much like David Barber roses but it said its a container and smelled like a rose instead of a delicate musky smell.

Onward to keep searching.....oh what fun it would be!

 

[EweSheep]

Quote:
Oh it does not ring a bell!

Either he was American or German.................

 

[Cindiloohoo]

That's all I got

 

[carriehelene]

For all rose questions, there is only one place to go

http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/index.php it has more info than you will ever need, including names of all known roses, descriptions, and pictures when possible. It also has the added benefit of being fairly easy to navigate.

 

[EweSheep]

Thanks Carrie for the link, however to add more details to it, I would have to subscribe to it. No deal here lOL!

I will look around some more to see if any man's name will ring a bell to me. Any Carls, William and Davids LOL! However the David Barber is the the one that looks soooo eerie familiar but it is a recent new variety...........now I have to see what else I can do!