For better or worse, this is what I have coming from Vintage Gardens. I just hope I don’t kill them.
Kathleen Harrop
Reine des Violettes
Purpurea
Aimable Rouge
Indigo
Fire King
Atomic White
Rosa roxburghii
Iceberg, Climbing
Kronprinzessin Viktoria von
Panachee d’Orleans
Triomphe de L’Exposition
I’m hoping to get a flower or two from some of these this year to work with. We’ll see!!?!
Neat! Have fun with them!
Thanks Kim. The Hybrid Perpetuals were chosen because they are mostly thornless. I was messing with The Fairy yesterday and I felt like a pin cushion. We’ll see what happens when they are crossed with some of the newer varieties. Rosa roxburghii was chosen basically because it’s a species roses and I want to start gathering some of them. Others my wife chose when she was looking over my shoulder. When she says go for it, I’ll get a few she likes as well. There’s that old saying, “Happy wife, happy life.”
Yup! Nobody’s happy if momma ain’t happy!
Im glad ya went a unique route with your choices.
Michael:
I spend way too much time on HMF. Much of what I have coming has limited kids listed in the lineage. That could be a good or bad thing. I’m hoping to get something a little different from these, but that will be seen. I doubt I’ll ever have the next knockout, but I sure do enjoy raising roses. In the end, I guess that’s the point.
This rounds out my new stock orders for this year. Whether these will work with anything from the above list is yet to be seen. If nothing else these will give me experience working with different classes. The ultimate goal, other than learning, is a yellow crested repeat bloomer with good fragrance. These will not head for that goal, but I think they should work in producing some interesting mini-floras. I’m not sure how they will work with some of the older roses that I now have in the corral, but it should be fun. And for me that is the primary focus.
Beauty Secret
Cal Poly
Fireworks
Sweet Chariot
Jean Kenneally
Aunt Honey
Joseph’s Coat
Hula Hoop
Hula Hoop was impressively healthy in Visalia. Carolyn’s mother had one in a bed in her back yard that was easily six feet tall, wide and deep. A very beautiful shrub! It made some impressive seedlings for them, none of which, unfortunately, were ever released.