Open pollinated Henry Hudson seedling. Where do you think this narrow, shiny foliage came from? The only roses nearby are Robert Erskine’s Aurora, Caroyal, and Leafland Double White Altai. This seedling has not bloomed. It’ll be fun if it’s cane hardy.
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I’ve no idea, but it’s a pretty thing!
My first guess would be Prairie Peace.
Prairie Peace sounds like a possibility–I can hardly tell my Prairie Peace cross seedlings from the R.foliolosa x Henry Hudson seedlings. The shape and color of the leaves are remarkably similar, as are the prickles. The main difference is that the Prairie Peace seedlings mostly are branching more uniformly.
Any r. nitida or theresa bugnet around a.k.a. metis?
Aha! There is a Prairie Peace not too far away that had plenty of blossoms.
Sorry, Riku, no nitida or Therese nearby.
I suppose if PP is an option then Leafland Dbl White Altai is also an option.
Either way it will be fun to see how it blooms, if it blooms.
Thanks everyone!
Joe, do you know what wild roses grow in your neck of the tundra? Rose pollen gets airborne pretty easily so it doesn’t have to necessarily bee from a near neighbor.
Don, I don’t know the species near here. Probably arkansana, but I don’t know. Not glossy foliage. Plus I have many, many more cultivated roses on the place than there are wild roses nearby.
I’m still liking the Prairie Peace option, because she really did put out a lot of blossoms and is about 100 feet away.
I have many, many more cultivated roses on the place
? How many, round numbers
Counting the number of planted roses, not the number of cultivars, I’d say about 160. The majority of them were just planted last spring, so I don’t know if they were blooming at the same time as Henry’s first flush.
jbergeson,
I too have had a number of seedlings from Henry Hudson with narrow leaflets, some of them also displaying excellent scarlet fall coloring.
According to HMF, Henry was the result of two open pollenated cycles of Schneezwerg. Perhaps one of these cycles involved rosa nitida? Alternatively maybe rosa multiflora?
Who knows, but these narrow leaflets do not appear on any of the roses growing near by my Henry Hudson, nor have I encountered the narrow foliage with any seedlings of my other roses.
