A few more new seedlings
Again, please forgive me for the highlighted rose names not being all in red. Blogger is fighting allowing that. Some come out red, most don't, but if you click on them, you should be taken to Help Me Find-Roses to see more about those specific roses.
Here are some you probably haven't seen yet. This first one is a cross using Florence Bowers Pink Tea as the seed parent. Unfortunately the tag is missing so I'm not positive what the pollen parent was. I used Paul Barden's 42-03-02, Purezza and Tom Thumb extensively and this could have resulted from any of them. It has rather nice form, color and scent and the foliage appears it may be good. It's definitely from Florence Bowers Pink Tea as it was in the middle of a cluster of pots of her seedlings.
This should be quite interesting. Nessie [(R. Brunonii X R. Gigantea) X Mlle Cecile Brunner] X Tom Thumb! It should be a polyantha type plant. It has some scent and it repeats regularly.
This is from the same cross as the above, but tremendously smaller in ever detail.
Nessie X Annie Laurie McDowell created some monster climbers as well as several odd little things. This one is about four years old. It repeats and grows in a three gallon can. Not a lot of scent. Not much growth, lots of flowers and fairly decent foliage. No prickles, either.
Seedlings are flowering! More will come as they push their flowers through the weeds! Thank you for reading!
I find the top photo particularly interesting with the pink shading and what appears to be yellow shading, but may be a reflection from the yellow in the center.
ReplyDeleteThe country could use more scented roses. It is the scent that creates memories. Memories elicit a desire to recreate what once was. I went around to all of the entries in a very large rose trial last year. Not one entry had scent. Without scent we lose a great distinction from every other flowering plant. European breeders and the European industry understand it because it is a distinction looked for in judging roses. Here in the US judging does not reward that.
I think to some degree European breeders feel that the American market is so tainted by the Knock Out series of roses and the Infatuation by some of the ARS hierarchy that we are not the viable market we once were. This could not be further from the truth.
Keep up your work. It is the breeding by individuals such as yourself that come up with great varieties.
Thank you, and I do understand your sentiments. I also check every flower I encounter for scent and prefer those which possess it, BUT, if you wish to grow roses and you don't wish to spray or aren't able to spray, as many European countries aren't, then you must search those which are more resistant to diseases and they often don't express scent. Combining resistance to multiple races of multiple diseases is a Herculean task. Adding scent to that alchemy requires more luck than skill. You can't deny the breeder his due when he's created a healthy, vigorous, attractive product simply because it lacks scent. Perhaps those of us who desire both scent and disease resistance in OUR gardens should all be raising our own seedlings? They may not be healthy nor even viable elsewhere, but at least we know they are right where they were born and we grow them. I'm glad you enjoyed the images. That first seedling does have some yellow tones deep within its folds.
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