Morden Sunrise has the most delicious fragrance! For those who don’t think it smells like strong tangerines, there must be something wrong with your sniffer, lol! Hopefully that fruity scent will be passed on to your seedlings.
Wow!, you quite possibly enabled me with that comment!
It’s red, right down to the stamens, (Dortmund x Home Run)
Dee, I must agree regarding the fragrance of Morden Sunrise, it’s delicious! Although, bred on the Canadian prairie, it unfortunately does have problems with hardiness here, so I always cross it with super hardy varieties.
Terry
Darlow’s Enigma X Home Run. If its fertile and disease resistant I don’t care what color it is.
Patrick
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Nice one Patrick. I guess Home Run is fertile with diploids as well? Did you get any fragrance? Mine has none.
Thanks Robert. No fragrance on this one but I do have one white one which I remember was quite fragrant. I had over 100 germinations of this cross but only 13 survived because of incompatability as you can imagine. I have one coming which is pink and the next to bloom will be red. I love your Dortmund X Home Run.
Patrick
Very nice Patrick, I really love the petal shape. Home Run is really turning out to throw a range of colors, which I think is a real bonus.
Liz
Yes, I understand the incompatability issue. I experienced it this year too. It seemed to manifest as extreme fertilizer sensitivity in a couple of cases. Almost all the seedlings in a couple of crosses failed after a routine application.
So we could say Home Run was successful with diploids but a high number are lost as seedlings?
I only discovered Dortmund isn’t as disease resistant as I assumed late in the season last year.
I cut my big plant to the ground but I did get a a few things I’ll move forward with out of it.
This year I’m trying to work harder with yellows. It’s SO easy to get distracted.
“It’s SO easy to get distracted.”
Isnt it? One idea jumps to the next, and before you know it youre nowhere near where you remember 
Yes Robert that is exactly right. All these are their second blooms after I transplaned them into pots. The next one which will probably be tomorrow is red and it looks like it will have more than 4 or 5 petals or will be a bigger flower and it also has nice foilage.
Patrick
Here is the red one with good looking foilage. Darlow’s Enigma X Home Run.
Patrick
Wow! lookin great!
Patrick, I really like that red one - very nice!
Jim Sproul
Well, it’s different.
Yes it is different and about 30 petals for a first bloom is great. Will be intresting to watch it for a while.
Patrick
Now that one just looks sweet. I think I like that one the best.
lol, it’s a “girlie” rose!
Let’s hope it thrives. I’d better remove this large flower and let the seedling grow a bit.
I think it’s interesting to look at the lineage here.
‘Carefree Beauty’ and ‘Lady Mary Fitzwilliam’ both make large contributions and you can certainly see them in this blossom.
I just thought of something. What ploidy do we get in a triploid x triploid cross?
David?
Any ideas?
Thanks, Robert
I’m into my second bloom cycle. This seedling picked up a few petals. I’m hoping my red seedling does the same. It should rebloom soon as well.