Here’s a current picture of one of the palustris X ‘Home Run’ seedlings that seems to have had the purple foliage of ‘Home Run’ intensified a little.
And here are some of this year’s new hopefuls…
Rosa palustris X ‘Mutabilis’
Oh wow Tom those two crosses sound wonderful! I can tell those are Mutabilis seedlings, the blue-green and red-purple foliage!
I love Mutabilis and it’s progeny, I’m sure you’re going to find an interesting seedling in there.
Please keep an update on these, they seem great. I was just looking at my palustris again, it really is quite unrose like and very pretty to look at. Definitely going to play with it by putting pollen on it this year.
Tom any update on those palustris x mutabilis crosses?
Yes, please! And also on the Home Run progeny.
Always enjoy hearing of your crosses, Tom.
-Philip
Thanks guys!
Sadly, I was neglectful of the new seedlings during the summer dry spell and lost just about all of those. I think all of the palustris X ‘Mutabilis’ are gone. But they had turned out to have quite a bit of mildew anyway, so maybe it wasn’t such a loss. On the bright side, I still have the palustris X ‘Home Run’ and glutinosa X palustris which were in the ground. I’m hopeful that both of these will have a little bloom in the Spring, if the deer will quit munching the tips.
Until then here’s a Fall color picture of Rosa palustris foliage:
I really do love my scandens, it was the last rose to bloom here (that is fully established) going into Nov, and I can never quite rectify the blossom color, it boggles me. My scandens is bright magenta pink, it’s pretty electric which makes me wonder if the clone Ashdown had and presumably is now at Rogue Valley, is a hybrid with some modern rose…it sort of matches the color of some of the pictures on HMF but it’s such a modern color, not that delicate or basic pink at all.
I’ve seen regular palustris at a garden center that sold natives and it looked nothing like the super willowy scandens either. Is there a big circulation of palustris that range from actual palustris to regional palustris crosses?
My clone truly is a repeater and an almost constant one at that. More flushes than any other of my roses and like I said I just knocked it’s last two flowers off.
Next year I need to start applying more pollen on it to see if it forms any sort of hips. I don’t think I’ve seen a hip on it that ever matured and didn’t abort though, the flower has such a small ovule in relation to the bloom size, so it might be worth more as a pollen parent…I just can’t not think it’s form, leaves, buttery smoothness and repeat cannot be ignored for breeding!