There is not much to look at yet, but I thought that I would share the link to my new “rose hybridizing” blog. I plan to give periodic updates on seedlings that are coming along. I would appreciate any comments. Thank you!
Jim Sproul
Hi Jim,
I will bookmark your blog and will look forward to reading your entries!
Me too…congratulations Jim.
Jim,
great design! Maybe I’m the first follower.
cheers
Bernhard
Excellent, Jim. Thank you.
It looks great Jim, I am now a follower also.
I have bookmarked your page. I will look forward to it like I look forward to reading the forum and other members blogs.
This looks like a great start! Congratulations and I’ll be checking in for new entries.
Wow! I’m a follower too.
Thanks all! So now I have to think about what to post next!
Nice Jim.
It will be fun to check in on you now and again.
Jim,
So nice to read your beautiful and loving tribute to those who have mentored you. Yes, I think most of us have been mentored along the horticultural path we have trodden , whether in person, or via books and magazines, and now the computer. By the way, which son is the hybridizer? I love those old pics of you and the boys.
Did they all try it or just the one? Which of the 3 was it, oldest,middle , youngest? Love the rose he created.
Am looking forward to more of your blog and more of your mentoring.
Thanks,
Jim Provenano
Hi Jim
I have been looking at your webb site for about three years
I realy like the minis you have shown on your site,they have given me reason to try hibridizing my self. I have grown roses many years . I have wanted to try this for some time
Bill Dolen
Hi Jim,
I am going to bookmark your blog as well. It is so fun for me to eavesdrop on you hybridizers to see what might be coming next. I’m always admiring your roses that you introduce. I really liked the Lighthouse that I saw at the ARS show last Fall. Any plans to introduce it?
Thanks for sharing your experiences.
Best,
Terry Hart
San Jose
Hi Jim, all of my kids have been helpful in the greenhouse, but my youngest son (3rd son) dabbled the most in hybridizing. Now at age 17, he is more focused on his band, ‘Confessing Yesterday’, and his involvement in the HS youth group. I am submitting one of his last roses for test this year. I think that it is his best.
Hi Bill, thank you for your feedback. I am so glad to be an “enabler” in rose breeding! It is such a wonderful part of growing roses. Coming up with a new, attractive rose for me is reminiscent of the way I felt when I was a kid and found a really beautiful stone on the beach at Lake Superior. There is that same fresh kind of excitement.
Hi Terry, thank you for your comments about ‘The Lighthouse’. I think that Vernon Rickard is the only one handling it at this time.
Jim Sproul
Ah, Jim. . . Vernon passed away earlier this month. I think the family is closing Almost Heaven.
Link: lincolntribune.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=18338
“Coming up with a new, attractive rose for me is reminiscent of the way I felt when I was a kid and found a really beautiful stone on the beach at Lake Superior.”
Beautiful! That pretty much sums it up.
Hi Kathy, thank you. I am so sorry to hear of his passing.
Hi Jon, I’m glad that feeling rings true with you too. I really do feel like a kid that found something special whenever an eye catching rose shows up among the seedlings. I’m sure that Vernon felt the same way.
Jim Sproul
Kathy,
So sorry to hear about Vernon’s passing. I tried to log on to his website a few weeks ago and couldn’t. Now I know why. Had visited him twice at his nursery to buy roses from him about 5 or 6 years ago. Friendly, warm, and generous. He didn’t have two roses as rooted plants that I wanted. He went over to the two mother bushes and gave me 4 or 5 cuttings of each plant to root. They were a gift! Of course we talked and talked roses.
This is a difficult period we seem to be going through right now with so many small rose nurseries closing and so many rosarians dying. Am finding this even on web sites such as Garden Web. I am grateful that I got back into roses during a “golden age”. It will come around again I am sure.
Jim P.