Roses in My Garden, Part 2: Rosa Mundi

A riotous display of two unnamed roses.

...Et je suis la plus belle, oui, je suis la plus belle des fleurs de ton jardin.
(...And I am the most beautiful, yes, I am the most beautiful of all the flowers in your garden.)

          --Mon Amie La Rose by Francois Hardy

Rosa Mundi, meaning Rose of the World, is an antique rose dating from the Middle Ages. It is said that its name comes from Rosamund, the beautiful mistress of King Henry II of England.

Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled.

I wonder which rose William Butler Yeats was inspired by when he wrote about Rose of all the World in his poem?

This is Apothecary's Rose, the parent of Rosa Mundi, which is a sport (mutation) of the former, and whose new growth often reverts back to the former.  When I planted the Rosa Mundi in my garden, I got a plant with its own roots, which means that it wasn't grafted on a root stock.  Although they are smaller and often take longer to get to a good size, own-root roses survive inclement weathers better and are generally harder to kill.  Well, my Rosa Mundi keeps throwing up new shoots from underground and most of them turn out to be Apothecary's Rose!  So now I have a plant with two kinds of flowers on it, all through the work of Nature!