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It resembles a yellow Irish Elegance, nearly like an Irish Elegance sport I recently observed.
Original on top, the lower two the more yellow mutation.
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This seedling was culled for basically lack of excellence. Golden Wings is such an incredible plant that I doubt it can be improved upon. lol
But I have TWO seedling from OP hips off it growing this season, and I’m willing to be proven wrong!
I have wondered which of the yellow Pimpinellifoliae would be most desireable to work with (health and color saturation on a rose that could survive my Texas climate).
Have you tried any controlled crosses that might maintain or reinforce the color saturation?
Even though GW sets lovely large orange hips every year, I haven’t had enough germination from the OP seeds to really bother using it as a female. I might use it’s pollen on a few things this summer just to see.
You could go right back to 'R. spinosissima lutea' Rose there’s a couple USA gardens with it so might be worth tracking down.
I got it last season it’s a pretty deep yellow and sets (black) hips easily.
I’m in Australia so possibly not too far off climate wise and it’s doing well here. Should start seeing germination soon(ish) couple other spino (eg Irish Rich Marbled) have started germinating.
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So I’ve had TWO germinations from OP seed this year! That’s a 100% increase over last year, which resulted in that one seedling flowering as a paler, plainer selfing, and which I culled.
Well, this year the first to bud is starting to loosen its sepals:
Looks yellow, yay!
Feels “fat”. Is it going to be double!?
Stay tooned!
Dusty.
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Although the colour didn’t last, the petals have better holding-power than GW itself…
Still unsure whether it’s an “improvement”, but might add some diversity to other classes?
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If it happens to have unusually good disease resistance, I’d consider throwing something like that at Abraham Darby to see if you can come close to an improvement over Jude the Obscure. That’s a low bar in this climate, where JTO has terrible blackspot resistance and flowers that last a minute. They do smell great for that minute, though.
Stefan
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That’s a brilliant idea!
I may just do that with the next flower. Thank you for the suggestion. It has had good resistance so far, with many seedlings in the same box suffering from spots and mildew.
There IS a second seedling from GW that hasn’t flowered yet, but is building up quite a well-branched little bush.
I’m hoping that it has enough OOMPH to throw out buds soon, but even if it doesn’t, I may keep it to see what it does next year, because it too is healthyAF.
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