https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8516790/bette-midler-rose-new-york-restoration-project
Bette Midler gets her own Rose ~~ The "Divine Miss M Rose"
The flower – which you can see in the Botanical Garden’s rose garden, and which will go on sale to the public in 2020, with proceeds going to the New York Restoration Project in perpetuity – is robust, sharp and stands out in a crowd… sound familiar?
When she took the stage to address the honor of someone splicing two different roses together to create her own hybrid flower, Midler told the intimate group of donors and supporters she felt “thrilled and embarrassed all at the same time.” At least, until the mastermind behind the Divine Miss M Rose took the stage and revealed her flower was propagated by combining the John Paul II rose (the father flower) and the Sunny Sky rose (the mother flower).
“John Paul II?” Midler retched to the audience. “I quit.”
At the very least, she signed off on her floral mama: “She sounds like a pisser,” Midler said of Sunny Sky, wondering what led to the flower bed becoming a marriage bed: “Do they go on dates? Did they go for drinks?”