Saturday, October 12, 2019

A few windy Saturday seedlings

One day, it's cool, the next, it's hot. The wind blows then the fog rolls in. Who knows what to expect next? At least some seedlings are pushing out a few late fall blooms...

Please forgive that the underlined rose names are not all highlighted in red, as I had intended. For some reason, Blogger is intent upon fighting changing the font colors, but if you click on the underlined names, you will be taken to their rose pages on Help Me Find-Roses so you may see more about them. 

There are quite a few large climbers from this cross, as well as several small plants which flower all the time. This is one of the smaller Nessie X Annie Laurie McDowell seedlings. Nessie is my enormous, once-flowering hybrid from [(R. Brunonii X R. Gigantea) X Mlle Cecile Brunner]. This, crossed with Annie Laurie McDowell, resulted in these small, continuous flowering seedlings. 

This is an odd one. Pretty Lady X (Lynnie X Basye's Amphdiploid 86-3).  86-3 is a huge, tetraploid climber combining R. Banksiae and R. Laevigata. This repeats, has scent and is a climber, and it's only two generations away from R. Banksiae!
 Annie Laurie McDowell has produced very few hips in all of her years of life, so when she does, I MUST plant the seeds! This is one of her self seedlings. Unfortunately, not a great deal of scent, but no prickles, either!
 Another Nessie baby, this time with Faith Whittlesey, a Viru Viraraghavan Tea from India. You're already read what was behind Nessie. Faith Whittlesey was produced from Reve d'Or X [(Echo X R. Gigantea) X Marie Van Houtte]. This repeats and has a wonderful, heavy sweet scent.
 This is an odd smaller climber which repeats and smells very good. It was produced from the miniature Apricot Twist X Lamarque!

This is a fun, smaller shrub with quite good foliage and a lovely photo sensitive coloring. It's from Art Nouveau X April Mooncrest. 


More as they cooperate and flower!

4 comments:

  1. Very interesting flowers! Beautiful! Wish we had smell-o-vision on the internet.

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  2. Thank you. For these, I agree with you. It would be fun being able to also share the scents.

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  3. Fabulous! Have you started any cuttings from any of the one of a kind beauties???

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  4. Thank you. No, as there are far too many plants for the space I have, none of them have been duplicated. Where would I put them? LOL!

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