Chlorophyll roses

General Discussion
#1

Around last December, I became interested in green roses, specifically Greensleeves and Green Diamond.

It happened because I read Paul’s remarkable comment about how Golden Angel (which I have…) and Sheri Anne, when used as seed parents will often produce green seedlings.

I haven’t used Golden Angel often or that long, so I never saw a green seedling in the batch. It made some especially beautiful colored English type of roses when I crossed it with Geranium Red. One seedling from last year looks like Pat Austin-- but no green colors. I’ve seen roses that looked green at first such as my Sutter’s Gold X Renae seedling. But they don’t remain like that after a while.

So I thought about using Golden Angel and St. Patrick (My aunt owns a few bushs, so I can take a few of her blooms.) And I thought it would be interesting to make a Golden Angel X Greensleeves cross too.

Although, I heard that Greensleeves is disease prone. And I don’t know if it ever has created other green roses.

Anyways, I want to know what experiances you have. Anyone here have used Green Diamond, St. Patrick, Greensleeves, or Mint Julep?

#2

Enrique, I did some investigating a while back on green or almost green roses and I found one common rose in all thier ancestary. All the ones you mentioned above Golden Angel, St. Patrick, Greensleeves, Green Diamond, Mint Julep have Baby Chateau in its ancestay. I don’t know if it means anything but maybe you would want to do some more investigating along those lines if you are intrested in green roses. Good Luck.

Patrick

#3

Wow, good research! My green rose came from that line, too (Danae x Pretty Lady). My guess is that it got the green from Freedom which is one of the parents of Pretty Lady because I doubt it was from the Danae side.