There was a rambler known in South Australia as Katie Pianto’s Rose, is actually a seedling from Katie Pianto’s garden, a garden of a very special lady no longer with us.
This rose, probably a chance seedling, has both ‘Indica Major’ and R. multiflora in its ancestry and in Sydney is known as the “The Balmain Rose”. In South Australia it is called
“The Katie Pianto Rose” after the person who brought cuttings of this beautiful plant to our part of the world. David Ruston’s plant started life under an old walnut tree
which has long since died, fallen over and been smothered. Notes from "Help me find" an online site.

Often a rose is named after the place it was found…… or after the original garden owner as with Katie Pianto’s rose.

Thank you re all the hopes that we were okay in last night's storm.. although I didn't get
to go back online, we did have a storm go through and heaps of rain fell. No trees fell over, but there is some work to do on our drive-way that got washed out badly.