This one doesn’t have much of a scent at all. Leaves are long and thin which is interesting.
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This is the one that had the green petals. Had a citrus fragrance mixed with the scent usually associated with florists roses. The petals lasted forever. I wonder if this is a seedling from when i dusted all of my roses with florist rose pollen for fun.
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Definitely keep an eye on the one that had green petals! It’s always a long shot, but with fragrance, that could develop into something special if the form improves as it ages and there is decent disease resistance.
If they manage to survive the first cull, I send my unscented ones outside sooner than most to judge (harshly) how they fare against diseases–they usually have to be pretty exceptional in other ways for me to consider them worthy if there is no fragrance.
In my experience, many seedlings with oddly narrow leaflets compared to their siblings tend not to be very robust or healthy. I hope that yours manages to dodge that trend.
Stefan
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Oooh. I love this thread. I LOVE yellow, especially yellow roses. I’m putting together my “to buy” list for next year (now that I’ve learned how to grow roses in this challenging climate) with the intent of trying to breed some gorgeous yellows and apricots. I guess I’ll have to move Poet’s Wife up my list. 
thank you.
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Hope, where are you (climate wise) and what are your main priorities for breeding? Solicit ideas if you want. This a generous (and at times opiniated) group.
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North Texas/Oklahoma area. 
haha. Heat, humidity, drought, zone 7, super windy, but it’s the heavy clay soil that is a killer for roses. Yet I love them. I only killed about 4 before I learned!
I love the romantic climbers mostly. Peony shaped blooms, high petal count, solid cut flower potential, super fragrant, pastels mostly: apricot, peach, lavender, yellow, green…pale pink is alright I suppose. 
I’m trying to put together a list that isn’t going to run me a million dollars, but there are so many that I want to try my hand at.
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That is beautiful! Poets wife needs to go on my list. Where are u in SC I live in the Charleston area.
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I am also in the charleston area! Poets wife does better than most here, though it is definitley not spotless. There are improvements to be made. I do also want to mention that the yellows with poets wife do seem to fade, but most seedlings have good medium to strong fragrance!
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Somewhat outshone by the glowing ‘asterisk’ behind it (tell us about it!).
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Pavlovais, i assume you are talking about the red one with 5 petals? That is a seedling from an unknown climber that i received from my neighbors. The parent bush has good disease resistance for charleston. It looks like the parent bush, except it seems like it will have a shrubby habit. I do like the gothic style foliage. The seedling seems to have inherited the cool foliage and the millions of thorns that the parent has. The fragrance is mild and nothing special. It is a fairly generic single red rose. I will be moving it outside soon for testing.
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A quick scan for search terms red+single+climbing in HMF didn’t show me any windmills/asterisks/stars. Is it perhaps a bit past its peak and thus the petals have curled, the boss of stamens diminished? The light centre and then darkening to the points is a lovely feature. (The term ‘Gothic foliage’ is unique to you! A google search of ‘Gothic foliage on roses’ led me down a path I should have seen coming…
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Oh! Well when i say gothic foliage im referring to leaves that have dark purples, red outlines, that eventually change to dark greens while sometimes holding purpleish edges. Deep red or purple stems along with crimson thorns. It is somewhat relative since these qualities tend to dissappear more as the growth ages.
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Another very yellow seedling, the fragrance is not as strong with this one, but i like the foliage better than previous seedlings.
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I have to say–I really appreciate your updates to this thread over time. I like the dark stems and foliage of a lot of your seedlings here. I only just found this forum (love propagation but haven’t done much with roses) and now I wish I hadn’t been so assiduous about deadheading my roses this summer.
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I am glad you are enjoying them! I have some more seedlings still maturing!
Here is another one! I consider this one one of the more pretty flowers until it bursts into a flat group of petals. The fragrance is strange, i am pretty sure it is just honeysuckle, it borders being insulting and stinky. There are no fruity or citrus undertones. I dont think i would consider the scent as tea like either. The fragrance is a medium strength and only really discernable when the petals opened.
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It is pretty! I didn’t realize that roses could end up with an unpleasant scent? But I suppose that is fairly subjective-- I am one of those people who enjoy the smell of paperwhites, for example.
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