Photo 1 is of the original Micrugsoa seedling. It’s nicely recurrent here in Georgia. Pale lavender pink, smoothish hips, and very fragrant.
Photo 2 just bloomed for the first time this past summer.
Photo 3 also just bloomed last summer.
Stephen
Photo 2 just bloomed for the first time this past summer.
Photo 3 also just bloomed last summer.
Stephen
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Thanks so much for sharing @hoy127 !
It was interesting to me that your original micrugosa seedling had smoothish hips. Hmmm. You didn’t happen to take a picture of them by any chance? I wonder whether there’s any similarity to the hips of the rose at L’Haÿ.
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Update on this topic:
I ended up keeping only one of these seedlings, or rather, only one survived the “summer of hell” I put them through last year: I placed the seedlings on the hottest part of the roof, in one liter pots, and watered only every 2-3 days even in 44°c heatwaves.
By the end of the summer, only two survived, and only one still had fully green leaves. It also happened to be the most compact of the batch.
As a reward the winner was transplanted to a 7 liter pot in the fall, where it promptly responded by putting out a new basal cane.
The foliage is textured and fragrant (a light resinous scent IMO) and the canes are what I would call “stubbly”: lots of prickles but very short and not painful to touch. Growth has remained nice and compact, and free of powdery mildew.
No blooms yet, but definitely keeping this one, and will give it a more protected position this summer.
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Hi SeasideRooftop, congratulations on this great success. A really beautiful and interesting seedling! I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it continues to do so well.
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At long last, the surviving seedling is about to bloom! Here’s the bud, with a nice red tinge at the base of the sepals:
I didn’t expect a first flower at this time of year… Might it be a sign of some potential for rugosa repeat, in spite of the 21 months it took to go from sprouting to blooming? I’ll update with a bloom pic when it opens.
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Hello SeasideRooftop! What a nice surprise, Congratulations! That’s not entirely unusual, but it’s always a great pleasure to discover such a special happening. I am very excited to see what the flower will look like and whether it smells.
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I have had the same thing happen a few times, and they ended up with repeat bloom.
In fact one of them ended up with some of the best repeat I have had in any rugosa hybrid.
Duane
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Thank you for your input, @Roseus and @mntlover1 ! I guess time will tell if it’s remontant or not, although I guess the odds are low.
As the buds emerged and the receptacles came into better view, they showed a very glandular, not at all prickly surface:
Also wanted to point out the stems, foliage and stipules. This is the basal cane that appeared last fall:
And here’s the bloom this morning!
Similar to the L’Hay pics of the mother’s blooms. It has fragrance!
So…. I still don’t really know what’s in the mix here, but I would say rugosa played a part, and possibly something like macrophylla. But then where does the fragrant foliage come from?
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Hello SeasideRooftop, thank you for sharing these interesting impressions with us. In my experience, this seedling should have dominant repeat-flowering traits, otherwise it would not have bloomed for the first time in August. That was always the case for me. It remains to be seen how strongly the repeat-flowering trait will be manifested. That will become clear next year. In any case, I am excited to see how things develop and am keeping my fingers crossed for you. A beautiful success!
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