Most unlikely crosses

General Discussion
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Looks good plan and reasoning …. and best reason of all “ you like them”.

Thanks for reminder about Paula, l grow it also but had a 1st bad winter last. So l covered by annex of air by soil, the graft that was exposed (right on edge of garden), recovered well and spinos do that in my garden.

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Well Anja is pretty! Also the south of the UK will be much colder in a 100 or so years when the gulf stream stops… Maybe my rose fame will be beyond my time :wink: :mountain_snow:

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Philip’s rules of hybridizing suggest that the odds of a vermin ravaging your hips is exponentially correlated to the value you place in them.
The critters just know.

Kim, I had a neighbor in NOLA who told me of watching a florist van pull up and cut all my roses. (Said neighbor sat on his porch a lot drinking wine gleefully watching the things that happened to his neighbors.)

Crosses other hybridizers deem impossible may well work in your own yard while parents others use might chronically fail. It is really odd the different results in different locations.

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Unlike many on here, I have had good germination from OP ‘Abraham Darby’ seed, and have a half dozen or so seedlings with their first buds growing. Might do some “deliberates” this summer.
AlsoPLUS: the horrible heatwave has passed; now temps are in the upper twenties instead of the lower thirties. Yay??

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Smoking hot here today again 11am, projected to 33C but TG its a dry heat. And at least allowed to water gardens now but use buckets only in 33C. :rofl:

But garden roses appear to love it - bloom best in awhile, no wilt but some yellow leaves as prepare themselves to shed?

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Wet and mostly below 20 in British summer…