From 2024: Miracle on the Hudson X Annemarie’s Choice. It flowers as early as the pimps (earlier than the father) and brings a bright red from the mother. We’ll see if it repeats. The father is a repeat flowering pimp.
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Rachel, thank you.
Phillip, I’ve used Kardinal 85 for the last 3 years, and it never fails to surprise me. A really wide range of results. It has ‘Flamingo’ and ‘Tropicana’ in its background, but nothing obvious to me.
Here it is with Sunsprite last year. These two were hip-sisters, the first is photochromic, becoming more red with sun exposure, and as you can see the second is strongly bicolor, almost like ‘Love’, but more yellow to the reverse.
Finally, it is also the mother of one of the darkest red roses I’ve ever raised (x Chrysler Imperial). Gets darker with sun exposure.
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Wow that dark red one is very intriguing!
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That dark red rose is something else! Really cool stuff.
Thank you. I really only keep it as an oddity; the form is small and messy, no scent, not particularly floriferous, and susceptible to mildew. Other than that, it’s great 
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Still, i love the novelty!!! Its such a cool near black rose!
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I had an interesting seedling germinate today! It is Baron Girod de l’Ain x R. Woodsii. I am really hoping for a fertile triploid with decent disease resistance, itll be fun to see what it turns out to be, assuming genetic incompatibility doesnt kill it.
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A tetraploid seedling seems possible, maybe even more likely, using R. woodsii as the pollen parent, although it might take a while to get back to repeat bloom from there! I’ve been surprised by the relatively good health of my young ‘Baron Girod de l’Ain’ this year.
Stefan
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I’ve never heard ‘Baron Girod de l’Ain’ and “disease resistant” used in the same sentence.
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Tis true that Baron Girod doesnt have good disease resistance, especially here in the south. It is tenacious though. Baron Girod was one of my few plants that decided to take the woodsii pollen, so im rolling with the punches 
hoping for anything good to come out of it.
Tuscany superb is also very disease prone and defiliated here in the south, but i do have one tuscany superb x R. Woodsii seedling that looks pretty disease resistant in this climate! Maybe i can pull it off the same stunt with Baron, here’s to trying!
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My plant certainly isn’t disease free, but the rate of blackspot progression despite the high pressure in my growing conditions has been slow enough that it exceeded my (admittedly not very high) expectations. Luckily, problems like mildew or rust that can probably be serious threats in other climates are usually relatively mild here. Compared to so many other roses that will develop truly severe blackspot, at least, ‘Baron Girod de l’Ain’ seems to be putting up more of a fight.
Actually, my own prejudice would probably have continued to keep me from giving it a try if it weren’t for others who have attested to some blackspot resistance in humid climates. You can find some of that in the member comments section at HelpMeFind, and there is even a mention from one of the Pierres in this earlier forum discussion: Breeding for blackspot resistance background material
Regardless, I’ve only had the plant for a little over a year, so I hope to learn quite a bit more during the rest of this season and beyond.
Stefan
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OP seedling of Astrid Grafin Von Hardenberg
The flower almost looks like a hibiscus.
Usually I don’t keep single roses, but I’ll raise this one because of intriguing color and large flower diameter for a first bloom.
the color is very similar to ‘jardins de france’, and for some reason it also has a faint purple blotch.
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Today I will show a latecomer seedling germinated in May 2025. ‘Royal Celebration’ X ‘William III’ are the parents. This is by far the youngest of 7 and also the only one in which the Spinosissima character is visible. It is also the most vigorous. I am excited to see how it develops in future.
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Hello Roseus, what is your secret to such healthy, vigourous growth in just one month, please?
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Hello @pavlovais, thanks for feedback. I suppose the secret here is first of all the genetic mix.
The current good health could be additionally favored through the controlled conditions in the greenhouse. We have since several weeks continuous hot summer heat, so it was not possible putting the very young seedling directly outside without gradual acclimatization.
However, experience has shown that, despite best genetic conditions, a change of location with different microclimatic requirements can very quickly have a considerable impact on vigor and disease resistance. If these are not suitable, you’re in a bad position. I hope that it can come to terms with the local situation here. I am of course looking forward to its further development. Time will tell.
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That’s absolutely gorgeous
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This was a surprise. In my “greenhouse” in March, the first bloom was a rather blah pale yellow. I transferred it to the garden only because it had an interesting long bud that opened rather like a vase.
So here are pictures of the first two
blooms in the garden. I was surprised by the sudden appearance of a red picotee edge to the petals. (Kardinal 85 x Peace)
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Lee you are getting some interesting results from Kardinal 85. I will have to pick one up
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