I hope you get your 5 acres some day Brandon.

I hope you get your acres as well. 😁

Part 2

https://youtu.be/5gRaI0Kri2E?si=p-nV1JI-oCgIRMQF

Part 3

https://youtu.be/NdHWZms1Gls?si=unWfEhFriNEPzOCL

Brandon - I looked at all three of your posts on possible "Dream Gardens". Wow! Too many roses to comment on, but my strongest thoughts are:

1) I love your list of "mystery survivors" in cemeteries. My garden is full of now-no-longer mystery roses which did survive at least 20-30 years of no care whatever in our garden between when my DH's grandparents stopped being able to garden, and when we moved in in 1989. Many of them were even planted in between 1905 and 1935 by his great grandparents. Of course, roses surviving in cemeteries are hard to ID - the blooms tend to be way smaller than those whose bushes are cared for, for example.

2) I think the rose which you say might be 'Madame Caroline Testout' IS MCT - blooms and also the leaves are just like the ones on two plants I am growing, both of which were cuttings of a very old "survivor" in the back yard of a house near mine which was vacant for years and years. Another clue is that the one in your pic was growing in OR - evidently thousands of MCT plants were planted in Portland, OR in the first decade of the 20th century, and many can still be found growing all over that city. I love it because mine is a climber, and the blooms are so spherical and sort of "blousy" - not like the later HTs at all.

Jackie