China Climber, Hybrid Gigantea, Hybrid Noisette, Species Cross Rose 'Fortune's Double Yellow'

This rose is supposed to be sterile as a hip producing parent, but when
Blooming next to a rosa gigantea in bloom I have found a ...Read Morefew hips containing a few good seeds on it.
F.D.Y. Does not grow well on my poor, dry soil, and neither does rosa gigantea. They seem to love deep clay soils.

A very vigorous, very fragrant, climbing China rose, very popular among rosarians where it's hardy. It blooms profusely once a year, in l...Read Moreate spring/early summer.

The fragrant blooms are 3.5", semidouble, in clusters.

The canes are flexible. This can be grown as a large shrub, but is best grown as a climber up through a low-branched tree or over a small building.

Robert Fortune saw a mature plant in a garden in Ningpo and brought material to England in 1845. He did not hybridize it. It is not a noisette or a modern climber. It is thought to be a chance hybrid of some antiquity, probably involving R. gigantea, originated in a Chinese garden.

This grows best in hot-summer climates. It is hardy into Z7, but some try to grow it in Z6. In California it's a no-care rose.

Pruning should be limited to the removal of dead wood.

AKA
• Beauty of Glazenwood
• Gold of Ophir
• Jaune de Fortune
• Rosa chinensis var. pseudoindica (Lin...Read Moredl.) E. Willm. Synonym
• Rosa odorata var. pseudindica Rehder
• Rosa sinica cv. 'Fortunes yellow' Regel
• Rosa X odorata pseudindica (Lindl.) Rehd.
• San Rafael Rose
• San Raphael Rose
• Wang-Jang-Ve

Bred in England. Won the Dowager Rose Queen award from the Zacramento Rose Society in 1999.

Parentage unknown.