I picked up some hips from Bill Radler’s climber ‘Cancan’ today but there is little infomartion on HMF about this rose. Does anyone have any details?
Yeah, the color is odd. Sometimes its purple-magenta in the autumn.
It is an amazingly beautiful color!!! It is creamy white with pink highlights that at times mature to magenta purple. It is triploid and quite healthy. It makes a nice shrub here in zone 4.
Thanks guys. I liked the color that I saw and can report that it does set hips. The plants that I saw today were tolerating BS very well while most around them were defoliating. Found this from a patent after I posted this thread:
"The new variety of Rosa hybrida shrub rose plant of the present invention was created at Greenfield, Wis., U.S.A., by artificial pollination wherein two parents were crossed which previously had been studied in the hope that they would contribute the desired characteristics. The cross was carried out during July 2001. The female parent (i.e., the seed parent) was the Radcovery variety (non-patented in the United States). The male parent (i.e., the pollen parent) of the new variety was the Radcotee variety (non-patented in the United States). The parentage of the new variety can be summarized as follows: Radcovery.times.Radcotee. "
Neither parent is listed in HMF.
Starting to have germination on this one Look forward to see what turns up in the F1. Wish more was known about the parents.
Sounds exciting, Rob!
Peppermint Pop pollen was fertile. No idea of seed potential.
Rob, how did your Cancan seedlings turn out?
I’ve noticed after this winter that Cancan is a step above the KO family in hardiness. I’ve never tried it as a seed parent because someone mentioned that it has limited fertility. However, maybe your experience shows otherwise?
I think it could be a good bridge towards hardy rebloomers. For example, why not recreate the Red Dawn X Suzanne cross with Cancan instead of Red Dawn? Therefore getting some disease resistance in there right off the bat.
Other possibilities include Brite Eyes and Morning Magic. However, I collected a ton of Brite Eyes OP seed last fall, seeded it thick, and have had only a handful of late germinations. It was striking how the entire seed flat remained bare while the others around it germinated like weeds. I seem to remember not getting any germ on MM either.
Came across this doing research on this cultivar, and wanted to bring it back to the surface to ask of folk’s experiences using this cultivar…
Any Cancan offspring worth mentioning out there?
For some reason in 2013 I used a pollen blend of Felix LeClerc and Cancan. Therefore I don’t really have any seedlings that are for sure derived of Cancan.
In last year’s dry summer my Cancans did not fare to well. It looks like they did something like rust. Still above average hardiness for a modern rebloomer and I think good blackspot resistance.