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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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This sibling hasn’t bloomed yet, but it was well-rooted into the one-gallon it’s in in this picture, so I moved it up to a two gallon day before yesterday…?
It’s a super-prickly monster in the making. I hope it’s worth it!!
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These are the two OP seedlings I got from ‘Golden Wings’ this year. The smaller one is the semi-double that I showed earlier in this thread. The BEAST behind it hasn’t bloomed yet (I’m sure that midges destroyed the buds on its first round; twas a bad year with them wee buggers all around.), but I see a tiny bud forming on one of the newest branches, so I’m hoping to see a flower in a couple weeks. The vigour of the plant is phenomenal, but those thorns!
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The two OP GW seedlings from last year. In my hand, the yellow semi-dbl that I transplanted into a 1g pot last fall did nothing really.
Ain’t got roots, ain’t got NUTHIN’!
Here’s hoping the prickly-beast flowers for me.
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Any updates on your seedlings @VanIsleDWSmith?
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The prickly-beast has yet to flower for me. I had just moved back in March, and the pest-problems here on the farm are very different than when I lived in town! I am always loathe to spray (and systemics are banned in Canada), so it’s a learning-curve all over again figuring out what/when/how to deal with these things holistically, by encouraging as many predators as I possibly can.
Anybody got a guaranteed-fix for thrips!?
I am thrilled by the apricot-orange glow on this yearling OP of ‘Graham Thomas’ though. In its first year, it was basically a clone of its parent, with a fruitier fragrance. NOW, it seems truly delicious, as it also seems to have better BS-resistance than GT too.
And then there’s THIS absolute treasure, from OP ‘François Juranville’ germinated in 2024, which has thrown massive clusters of flowers on basals reaching about 75cm/2.5’, with a plant width of over a meter now. Seems content to make a draping shrub with truly perpetual blooming character. If only the colour were more consistent, as sometimes the flowers open a nice orange before fading out through pink to white. I do love it, and I think it’s got something worth pursuing, but I haven’t yet seen a hip form. Maybe I’ll try forcing it.
Stay tooned for more!
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Imagine that seedling as a tall weeping standard!
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I am considering getting a golden wings, why do you view it as such a great plant? I have seen one before, it is definitely quite unique as an overall plant
James, here in the temperate rainforest (I’m on the drier, eastern edge on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada), GW makes a huge healthy shrub, and the large flowers (ranking w other famous singles like Mermaid & Dainty Bess in beauty) are reasonably constant. It sets hips with ease, and will continue blooming even without deadheading.
Your mileage may vary of course, but here it delights. Even non-rose people are enchanted, especially if they get to smell its fragrance.
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