The Charleston
Lowcountry Rose Society ‘s next meeting will be on Monday, April 15, 2019
Time: Social Time – 6:30 pm to 7 pm
Meeting
– 7 pm
Where: James Island Town Hall
1122
Dill Bluff Rd
James
Island, SC 29412
The Reverend Joseph
Hardwick Pemberton was born in 1852 , an Anglican clergyman for more than 30
years. A keen amateur rose grower, he joined the Royal National Rose Society shortly
after its founding, and in 1911 served as its president. After his retirement
in 1914, Pemberton turned to rose breeding in an attempt to recreate the
"Grandmother's roses" he recalled from childhood. He set up Pemberton
Nursery at Romford and nearby where eventually some 35,000–40,000 roses were
grown annually for sale.
Using the climber 'Trier'
(descended from 'Aglaia', itself an 1896 cross by Peter Lambert using Rosa multiflora), Pemberton
crossed it with hybrid tea roses to produce a class of highly scented,
generally cluster-flowered roses which remain popular garden material to this
day. Initially he classed them also as hybrid teas, but later took to referring
to them as 'hybrid musks', based upon a tenuous link between 'Trier' and Rosa
moschata.
We will
be studying hybrid musk roses. Many of these roses were hybridized in Great
Britain and they do very well in the Lowcountry with very little care.
Guest
and the public are always welcome to attend our meetings.
