![]() ![]() The foliage is leathery, essentially immune to mildew and highly resistant to rust and blackspots, large and a rich apple green. New growth starts before the flowers are finished, rapidly pushing a new crown of green and pink glory above the earlier growth. The stems are strong and straight, proudly holding the radiant blooms on high for all to admire. The plant is strong vigorous and of upright habit. Mary Poppins has all the robust stamina so characteristic of the “Hallmark” combined with a rich but delicate color. This remarkable new rose is a shell pink sport of the fabulous “Hallmark”, the first modern mildew resistant, fragrant red hybrid tea. Honest Pamela Travers has only 35 petals compared to mysterious Mary Poppins who has 157 petals. Morey translate the attribute of honesty in rose language? I believe the answer is in the number of petals. I will tell you more about this other rose in a future post. It was in The Children in the Story in Mary Poppins in the Park, the fourth of the Mary Poppins books published in 1952. Thinking about this apparent contradiction between her request and what she said about the allure and mystery of the rose in her interview with Frankel, I remembered another occasion on which she wrote about an open rose. She associated these qualities with the daisy, which by the way she judged to be a child’s flower, precisely because of its openness and honesty. Travers’s request for her rose to be honest and cheerful took me by surprise. Morey had a good sense of humour, and that P.L Travers was just maybe a little too demanding. The words “ Pamela Travers asked only that her rose be …” followed by an extensive list of attributes suggests that Dr. Could it be that she wished to embody these qualities herself (save of course from being “ readily and willingly cut for the home” and “ long lasting in the vase”). Morey’s correspondence, and it definitely feels like P.L Travers played the role of the Fairy Godmother bestowing praiseworthy virtues upon her rose. Undoubtedly this description echoes snippets from P.L. ![]() Pamela Travers asked only that her rose be pink, fragrant, healthy, vigorous, enthusiastic, happy, pleasant, easy to live with, adaptable, always in bloom, readily and willingly cut for the home, long lasting in the vase, prolific, long seasoned, bright, cheerful, and if possible, gentle, wise, and completely honest. The gracious author of the treasured “Mary Poppins” stories and other lessons for young and old certainly deserves the honor of a rose. Now I want to share it all with you, my mysterious readers. ![]() Not only did I get to see the pictures of Pamela Travers and Mary Poppins*, but I also read fragments from P.L. I had to wait.Ī couple of weeks later, like fireworks, my heart burst with joy as I flipped through the pages of the pamphlet. All I knew was that Pamela Travers was created in 1966, Mary Poppins and Sleeping Beauty in 1967. I mean, there was no certainty that the pictures of the roses would be in the pamphlet. Only people with nerdy obsessions can understand this anxious anticipation. What if some other Mary Poppins and P.L Travers fan found this and beat me to checkout? Then, the frequent trips to the mailbox began and that was not because I did not know about the system of notifications of the status of my order. I got goosebumps and then I hurriedly pulled out my credit card. Dennison Morey’s Country Garden Roses pamphlet for 1969 Dennison Morey’s Country Garden Roses pamphlet for 1969 on eBay! The first reference that appeared in my Google search was Dr. I got it right, but my extra precaution paid off. Just as I was about to post A Rose for Mary Poppins and P.L.Travers (on Valentine’s Day, wink, wink), I decided to double check the spelling of Dr. Until my own serendipitous experience last month. I have been poking around the Internet for years trying to find pictures of these roses only to find some technical notes describing their appearance. As it happened, she shared one of her personal wishes during an interview, and that interview set into motion a series of serendipitous events, which coalesced into three hybrid tea roses: one named after Pamela Travers, one after Mary Poppins, and a third one after Sleeping Beauty (P.L. Travers wished into physical reality three new varieties of roses. In my previous blog post I told the story of how P.L. ![]()
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