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!
It's been fun watching this vase of blooms mature over the past few days. I make sure the vase is full of water each evening so they don't go dry (they DO drink a LOT of water, particularly over night). We'll start with Day Three, then move into Day Four and the afternoon of Day Four...
And, the Fourth Day...
Evening of the Fourth Day...
Will Tillotson described Lavender Pinocchio in a Roses of Yesterday and Today catalog decades ago as having sophisticated coloring of an old Persian carpet. This is where Lavender Pinocchio inherited that sophistication.
