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I use these large clips (from potato bags, mostly) to mark my pollinated flowers. They are easy to see and pencil shows well. I just mark “X (pollen source)” and the date pollinated.
‘Roller Coaster’ was used on ‘Love & Peace’ (BAIpeace), and here’s hoping for better heath and flower size from momma, & stripes from poppa.
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Samesies! Haha. Some of its progeny shown on this forum have been incredibly attractive to me.
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I will also schow my news.Rosa "Indigo"x “Rosa farreri”.Over the winter seedling covered.
Second seedling-third generation Rosa “Pranciška”(Rosa Officinalis"x Rosa “Schneekoppe”.Free polination.Bloomed the following year.Important foliage,like parchment. And this cold summer,it seems,to be quite healthy.
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Beautiful blooms on those seedlings @redote884 !
I had never heard of r. farreri before , so it was interesting to go read about it on HMF. They are both gorgeous!
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Thank you.I’m glad you liked it.
Is it fragrant? Love that orange!
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I will sniff next flower👍
I always sniff and record the fragrance (or lack thereof) of the first bloom. That’s often a deciding factor if something stays or goes.
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Not something I actually want to pursue, but when my Gallica ‘Charles De Mills’ opened this season, many were just so perfectly neutered, with all stamens converted to petals and only a tuft of pistils in the perfect bullseye centre of each flower. So I reached for ‘Violacea’/‘La Belle Sultane’ and used it as a pollen-dauber.
“MORE PURPLE” was the only thought in my head at the time.
It seems to have taken. I don’t have room to sow 2+years of waiting seeds. Dammit. #Enthusiast
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High Country Banshee x John Davis. HCB has a lot to recommend itself to a northern gardener: tip hardy, fragrant, shade tolerant, beautiful flowers, disease resistant. Only flaw is it’s once blooming. It sets hips easily with all kinds of pollen and appears to be pollen fertile as well.
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Charles does set seed & those seeds will germinate!