Noodler's Black Swan In Australian Roses

[lgsoltek]

Mishka5050 kindly sent me a sample of this. BSiAR has had several versions and I don't know which one this is. Personally I think with such a huge difference in colour between versions, keeping the same name is very disrespectful towards customers.

 

Back to the ink itself, I quite enjoy this colour. I prefer it to English Roses, which is too brownish for my liking. I just wish it were wetter.

 

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[Chrissy]

Thanks for the review. I prefer this to BSIER and I think this is the purple version.

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks for the review. I have a bottle of one of the original batches and like it (I would have liked to try the more purple version as well). I've found that my batch looks a bit like Yama-budo, only with black undertones, so if you have Yama-budo you may be able to compare and see which batch you've gotten.

Like Chrissy, I also prefer it to BSiER, which I found to be really brown (and not like any type of roses I've EVER seen...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Chrissy]

 

Like Chrissy, I also prefer it to BSiER, which I found to be really brown (and not like any type of roses I've EVER seen...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I've never seen any brown roses here in England either.

[inkstainedruth]

 

I've never seen any brown roses here in England either.

 

The nearest I've gotten is when I tried to order an 'Austrian Briar' rosebush a number of years ago from a place in California ('Austrian Briar' is the species form of R. foetida -- it's has five petal yellow flowers (think 'Austrian Copper' R. [foetida bicolor] -- but all yellow, the color of 'Persian Yellow' [R. foetida persiana], which is the double form). They had a two plant minimum, so I also ordered 'Kanzanlik' (a variety of damask rose). After a year of hearing nothing -- including getting a bill or it coming up on a credit card statement -- I contacted the nursery and got told "Oh, the Austrian Briar? Uh, it went into the greenhouse looking brown. It came OUT of the greenhouse looking brown.... No, we don't know when we're going to be shipping...."

Unfortunately, I didn't get the 'Kazanlik' either (and that one I could have ordered from a number of other places). The only consolation is that I never actually got charged....

The place in CA doesn't seem to exist any more. I suspect they may have been bought out by Vintage Gardens, which is now the only place in this hemisphere (and one of only 3 places worldwide) offering 'Austrian Briar' -- which, the last time I checked was $40 US and a 2 year wait for a custom root job....

Certainly, when I think of "English" Roses I think mostly of the David Austin roses. Or the White Rose of York [R. alba 'Semi-plena'] or the Red Rose of Lancaster [R. gallica officinalis, the 'Apothecary Rose'] (neither of which particularly really "English"). And none of those are red-brown in color, unless they're dead, or their bloom time is past....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth