Help me please!
When my mum died my aunt bought me a beautiful rose tree. I planted it and it throve in my garden. Then one year it just wasn't there - gone, just gone, no sign it had ever been there.
I have spent a few years in disbelief, hoping each year that it will actually be there, but if it is, it's invisible.
Last year, I decided finally to try to replace it, but I cannot for the life of me remember which rose it was, if I ever knew.
So this is where I need your help. Can you guess, or suggest, what rose it was if I try to describe it?
It was a deep dark red, single bloom, with a strong smell - not tudor rose but proper old fashioned rose like the roses of my childhood (60s). It grew on one tallish strong stem and then spread out at the top. It had thorns, though I couldn't really say whether they were particularly large or strong, they were certainly there! Normal darkish rose leaves.
I know that in Rose Season, the easiest way to discover what it is, now that all the people involved with it are dead, would be to go to a specialist rose grower and sniff their stock, but dh HATES anything to do with gardens and I have to rely on him for driving (am disabled and not allowed), so I can't get to one at all easily - if there are any growers near me in the first place!
Please help!
Once I've got suggestions, I can whittle down likely suspects and then search.
Thank you.