I was in Corvalis a few days ago visiting some friends. I persuaded them to stop at a place called Garland’s Nursery which was a miracle in itself because we all know how much time gardener’s take at nurseries! Anyhow, I scanned all of their roses but their were none I wanted. I did memorize a few of the tags on roses that were new to me. One had the parent called ‘Prima’. I checked on the net yesterday and Prima is another name for ‘Many Happy Returns’! The rose was ‘Guinevere’ which makes it a third generation of ‘Mermaid’. A lot of breeders seem infatuated with that line of roses so I thought I’d post here and give a heads up since grafted plants ‘Guinevere’ seems to be readily available in the USA unlike ‘Pearl Drift’ and ‘Many Happy Returns’.
-Mike