None of my other “keepers” can even come close to matching this one’s vigour. I can’t say it has commercial potential, but it’s sure PURDY.
This beastly-beauty is outdoing every other rose I’ve ever grown. Year two seedling, germinated 2024.
Look at the bud count on that one stem!
And the flowering shoots popping all along the stem behind them.
Look at the backlit THORNS!!
I’m just amazed with it, completely.
Congratulations on such a nice and healthy looking seedling! And thanks for sharing that wonderful pic of the backlit thorns. That lovely stained glass look that young rose thorns get in the light is one of my favorite features in roses.
Looking forward to the bloom pictures when that cluster opens!
Here it goes!! The longer that I observe it (especially sitting right there between ‘Mutabilis’ and ‘Mrs Oakley Fisher’), the more I think it may be a hybrid of the two. It certainly shares the thornage of MOF, more so than its mother! Is MOF a tetraploid like most HTs?
Have I got a triploid on my hands?
Looking at those telltale fringed stipules, I’d say that the other parent is something with a good dose of R. multiflora in its background, so that would rule out ‘Mrs Oakley Fisher’ as the baby daddy.
Stefan
I missed that characteristic completely, Stephan!
Did a quick run-about to see what else could’ve been, and it seems that ‘Trier’ and ‘Ballerina’ are the only two with fringes, though neither are as long and “eyelash-like” as the seedling.
This also makes more sense, considering the flower-clustering. I may have accidentally stumbled upon a recreation of ‘Pleasanterie’ that I like better than ‘Pleasanterie’! Colour me blushing and happy.
Dusty, with sincere thanks.
Pics of both multiflora-derived “other possible baby-daddies”.
I would also vote for the “quasi-‘Plaisanterie’-sibling” origin theory, given those possible pollen donors… and would 100% agree that it could be a significant improvement over ‘Plaisanterie’ (which died young from blackspot here, and did little to impress me with its performance prior to that). Alas, Belgium is still a far cry from Maryland when it comes to blackspot pressure, even though Lens was still ahead of the game overall…
Stefan
I just mathed some distances, Stefan; Maryland to Belgium is 6198km across the Atlantic, and I’m 4767km away, across the North American Continent. Jeepers! What a world.
Ima start calling myself Dusty “Pemberton” Smith!
That does look promisingly yellow (and plump); I can’t wait to see what it opens into. I would agree that ‘Trier’ is the likely sire, barring some possible lavender-yellow synergy from Sweet Chariot, but you would probably still expect to see a bit more pink/purple if that were the case.
I really miss ‘Trier’, but Minnesota’s winters proved to be just a bit more than it could handle, and the last time I recall seeing it for sale here in the States was while I still lived there (now more than two decades ago). I was briefly infatuated with it because I had visited that city when I was a pre-teen and was fascinated by its ancient Roman history, and of course the pivotal role that the rose played in some of Pemberton’s best breeding work. Now, many of those ‘Trier’-derived hybrid musks have proven disappointingly blackspot-prone for me, but they are absolutely top-notch roses where they’re adapted. I’m still holding out hope for ‘Cornelia’.
