This is my mislabeled “English” rose from last year. My problem the beautifull results turn up unknown by a little bit bad administration. I am finetuning it this year tho. But from all the roses I have the only English rose I have is Chipendale. I think it is NewsFlash x Chipendale but not sure. I really like it so wanted to show it to you all.
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The rose is very gentle, lush and beautiful.
That has a beautiful color and form and looks very floriferous, so you’re right to be excited by it. Even if you aren’t sure about the parentage, it’s still a good-looking seedling; if you are curious enough, you could always try to recreate that cross to see if any of the “siblings” appear similar.
The old-fashioned (“English”) flower form can appear in seedlings from any cross with potential for many petals, so that wouldn’t necessarily have to come from Chippendale, although it certainly looks like it could plausibly result from such a cross. Technically, Chippendale should be considered German, despite several very English-sounding trade names that might suggest a David Austin coattail-riding marketing strategy…
Stefan
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Lovely plant!
Historically, low-centered cupped rose flowers were the default when breeders 3/4 century ago began striving to create high-centered HT’s, as I understand it. Always made me wonder how many nice “English-style” roses met the compost bin for not being in fashion.
I suspect though the tendancy to create that level of cabbage-y offspring has largely been bred-out most modern roses that do not have English roses in their lineage, and given the coloring, it likely is the seedling of an English, Generosa, Romantica, Renaissance, or other such collection.
It is sad if a lot beautiful cupped roses went to waist. I think we need to have a huge variaty of strong healthy roses. I hope my copy will stay healthy.
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