Daily News | A famous century-old pink rose bush was stolen in Germantown. Who poached the plant?
In a garden of historic blooms, the plant poacher pursued a single prize. A rambling rose bush planted over a century ago, and known for its striking, delicate, pink flowers. The most iconic and most photographed flower at Wyck Historic House and Garden on Germantown Avenue: the Tausendschon Rose.enclosed garden and, wielding dull pruners, clipped off nearly all of the living plant material from the Tausendschon: some four feet worth.
Staff have reported the crime to police at the busy 14th District, which covers swaths of Northwest Philly, but without surveillance footage, Staub and her coworkers don’t expect the thief to be found soon.They are now trying to save this endangered rosebush celebrated for its beauty, but also its historical and horticultural significance, and a draw for the often overlooked museum. The Tausendschon was planted in the 1910s by Jane Bowne Haines.
Emily Conn, a horticulturalist and manager of living collections at Wyck, said plant theft, especially of roses like those on the Tausendschon bush, is not uncommon in the gardening world. The Tausendschon had just finished its big spring bloom, and was growing new shoots that would bloom again in the summer. The shoots are how Wyck staff propagate the plant for their own sales. They tend to them for two years before selling them for $50 a piece.
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