“Honest, ma! It FOLLOWED me home!” LOL!
oh yes, Candy Oh VR - I love this - you MUST spirit it across the atlantic somehow. Even NL (Oh yes, I will have a long order from Bierkreek, next year - terrific personal service too) Please, please, please.
Candy Oh! was an easy choice, but I kept going back and forth between Honey Bun and Peachy Cream. After a lot of thought, I thought the former was better. I also think Scrivens is very selective of what he puts out to the public. Mostly, though, it looks like Peachy Cream fades a lot.
I would love to see Candy Oh! and Catherine Guelda in europe to. It would be great if you could make it happen. To quote campanula “Please, please, please”.
Well, if licensing permits, it’s an easy enough thing to do…
Bierkreek has a large number of neat things coming along from over here. Just let Hans know they’re coming, making sure he’s interested in them, then mail them as ‘samples’. Not terribly expensive and he received them in about four days from when I mailed them. I would LOVE to see the Post Office do that with Priority Mail from the West to East coasts!
I guess licensing is down to David, hopefully he’ll check in and let us know how he feels about the idea.
Not specifically, Proven Winners is a national product, so he may have limits regarding his distribution rights.
Perhaps, but it would be nice to know he’s on board with the idea as these are his roses. And I’m sure he could clarify the situation for us in regards to licensing.
I’m hoping that he can spread those roses further. I just know how touchy companies get, is all.
Hans’ work at the Bierkreek is wonderful for us Dutch rosarians (and other Europeans too of course)!! Some years ago I received some test roses by George Mander through Hans’s nursery. Unfortunately, they couldn’t stand the blackspot pressure, so they’re all gone now. If I remember correctly I also grow two of Kim’s roses (an orange roses that intensifies color and a bracteata hybrid with magenta flowers?).
Anyway, I would love to see some of David’s hybrids to become available here through de Bierkreek!
Rob
Hi Rob, neat! I hope my roses are performing well for you. I can’t think what the orange one might be as I don’t remember an orange one. The magenta Bracteata one should be Orangade X Star Magic. It should be thornless with a characteristic halo like Ralph Moore’s Halo Roses. I’d given that one to Ashdown who sent it to Hans. I lost the original seedling and then lost Ashdown and there were no plants here in this country. Cliff imported it from Hans, not knowing it was my seedling and I brought home two small plants of it two weeks ago from visiting Cliff. “And, this is the house that Jack built!”
Hans is growing a rose more people need to take a look at. Dr. E.M. Mills was a minister at the turn of the Ninteenth to Twentieth Centuries who was instrumental in morphing the ARS from a trade organization to a hobbiest one. He established the Syracuse Rose Society one hundred years ago this year. He was involved in everything and accomplished many, many good works.
Dr. Van Fleet created a rose, pictured in the 1926? ARS annual which he named for Dr. Mills. The stated parentage was Hugonis X Radiance. I’d sought the rose for quite some time out of interest to use it for breeding. I found it listed in one public garden in Sweden. I contacted Paul Zimmerman who put me in contact with Hans at Bierkreek, who happened to know the gentleman in Sweden. Wood came to Hans who has it propagated and it is on its way here to eventually land in the Dr. E.M. Mills Rose Garden which the Syracuse Rose Society maintains.
So, to anyone in Europe, please order Dr. E.M. Mills from Hans! He does tremendous preservation work, mostly unpaid as not too many people order the odd, rare and unusual things he saves. His efforts need support. He emailed me the other day to say he doesn’t think he’s sold one plant of Dr. Mills, but has given it to some gardens and other large nurseries to prevent it from being lost. I applaud his theology of never wanting to hold the last one of anything. What I’ve always called, “never wanting to hold the last Unicorn horn”. Life of anything is too tenuous. If you have an order from him or about to place one, please include a Dr. Mills to help support his preservation efforts. The man is just a good steward of his land, business and roses.
And, if anyone has Lens’ Pink Mystery, please bring or send him wood of it this summer. He had it, I was going to import it from him, but he lost them. Thanks. Kim
Hopefully we will see these roses in Europe soon, I’ll be looking out for them.
Has there been any movement on bringing these roses to Europe? Would still love to get hold of them