Not a lot to learn from this, but its amazing to see regardless.
[url]Modern rose breeding: David Austin, Meilland, Ralph Moore, Jackson & Perkins, and others. - YouTube
Tom Carruth also has a good video on Youtube. I think some of you may have seen it, so this is for those of you that have not.
In case anyone would be interested in seeing more episodes of the series by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix in the first link posted above, I found these, although there may be others available with a bit more hunting:
Thanks. Just watched them both. I love how they’re in a garden and just walk through the prickled beasts and rip right through like its nothing. A sign of a rosarian LOL.
The Rosa canina that at least 5 generations of my roses descended from was a naturalized homestead rootstock. Like in California in the videos, the PNW had abandoned homesteads where certain roses became naturalized in small ecosystems once again. I have also seen this in Montana with Rosa foetida, Rosa rubiginosa, and Rosa foetida bicolor.
Ha! I didn’t see this post earlier. I was just trying to find this video online, and wondered if it was available on PBS or Netflix or something. (In the process of searching, I came across a local PBS production that has Jonathan Windham in it! 
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I had been thinking of this show, which I had never seen, in the context of the news of Roger Phillips passing this past year. His was a website I turned to very often before it was taken down when I wanted to better understand some of the species roses I heard of. I miss that website.
The optimism about the future direction of the roses seems in hindsight a bit optimistic in view of what was happening to the industry when I was old enough to start becoming interested.
Thanks for sharing! (…And for making feel old.)
[Oh, how weird… I also came across the Carruth video a few days after your post… Were we reading the same newsletter or something??]
It was shown on PBS in Britain and perhaps other European countries. The back story was instead of being paid, some responsible for the production were given rights to the film. They wanted more to show it than the PBS outlets would pay so it didn’t get shown on PBS here. That was according to Roger Philips.