Rosa 'Violet Carson'

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Rosa 'Violet Carson'
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GenusRosa hybrid
Hybrid parentage'Mme Leon Cuny' × 'Spartan'
Cultivar groupFloribunda
Cultivar'Violet Carson'
Marketing namesMACio
BreederSamuel Darragh McGredy IV
OriginNorthern Ireland, 1964.[1][2]

Rosa 'Violet Carson' is a salmon-pink rose cultivar, an uncommon hybrid of the red hybrid tea (Gaujard, 1955) and the orange floribunda (Boerner, 1955), created by Samuel McGredy IV between 1963 and 1964.[3] It was named after the English actress Violet Carson (1898–1983), who played Ena Sharples in the British soap opera Coronation Street.[4]

The dense semi-double flowers reach an average diameter of 8 centimetres (3.1 in), with up to 35 petals, and appear in loose clusters of 3 to 15 in flushes throughout the season. They have a mild to strong, sweet musk fragrance and an elegant bloom form, with outer petals that bend decoratively outwards.[2] Their colour ranges from a blush to strong pink with a cream centre and a reverse described as lemony or silvery in young flowers that changes to pink and white in mature petals.[2][5]

The compact bushy shrub grows 0.75 to 1.5 metres (2.5 to 5 feet) high and about 1 metre (3.3 ft) wide. The young shoots are crimson with reddish purple new foliage that turns to a glossy slightly blue dark green. 'Violet Carson' is (almost) thornless, rain tolerant and winter hardy down to −23 °C (USDA zone 6).[1][2][5]

The flower has been notably featured in the graphic novel V for Vendetta, but in the movie version is renamed to the fictitious "Scarlet Carson", which Ruth grows for her partner (Valerie), and V grows during his imprisonment in the Larkhill Resettlement Camp. They were portrayed in the film by red roses.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Violet Carson". HelpMeFind.com Roses. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
  2. ^ a b c d Charles and Brigid Quest-Ritson (2010). Rosen – die große Enzyklopädie [RHS Encyclopedia of Roses] (in German). Dorling Kindersley. p. 130. ISBN 978-3-8310-1734-8.
  3. ^ http://www.treloar-roses.com.au/files/violet_carson.htm
  4. ^ "Violet Carson OBE". www.corrie.net.
  5. ^ a b "Violet Carson". Rogers Roses. Archived from the original on 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
  6. ^ V for Vendetta production notes in V for Vendetta DVD and Blue-ray editions. Accessed February 17th.
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