Yes , on to its third flush!
This is truly perpetual, once it started flowering it has never stopped. Wondering how I prune it hahaha
My Rose de rescht looks awful again now, the worst of all my rosesā¦ which is a shame as it is one of my favourites!!! The time has come where I must consider moving mine to a better locationā¦ Do you have photos of where yours is so I can make a better educated move?
A much shader spot seems to be a good plan, however if itās not a good mother the best way for me to get anything is from itās pollenā¦ so full sun & heat seems to produce more anthersā¦ or so I find
This rose was culled, amazing flower, smelled great, covered with black spot worse than I have ever seen. So far every rose I have got using duchess of Portland as pollen parent has been very sickly
The few reasonably healthy roses I got from any Portland type were from āMarbreeā. It sets seed easily and it generates many decent plants. But beware! Most of its offspring will be difficult, if not impossible to propagate by rooting cuttings! I have some very nice āMarbreeā seedlings that I cannot distribute because I canāt root cuttings from them.
Hi Paul, have you tried layering or budding your Marbree seedlings onto a rootstock?
Got a few more hips from a marbree rose (canāt buy one in the UK) this year I got "x14 seedlings all so sickly I got rid of them all
Hey Brian. If I have to employ āextreme measuresā to propagate a rose, then it has not passed the basic market worthiness test. IMO a rose has to be at least relatively easily propagated by cuttings to be worth naming/distribution.
IIRC (it was twenty years ago), I did attempt to bud some Marbree seedlings onto a couple of rootstocks and none took. Thereās a limit to what Iām willing to do to propagate a variety. Iāve got a beautiful double red Kordesii hybrid that Iād love to distribute, but it suffers from the same problem: flatly refuses to make roots on cuttings.
Unusual in the British market to buy own root roses, however the fact that this didnāt take via budding is concerning
So I am finding once again that all my Marbree seedlings seem to be struggling a lot more than anything else. I thought I read somewhere they donāt do well on their own root? I will keep them on as I am intrigued to see if they will grow out of itā¦
Wow thatās an interesting colour, anything else nearby that could have pollinated it?
Hi @Alberto ! Congratulations on these two beautiful and amazing seedlings! The second one resembles āIndigoā or āNuits de Youngā a bit in color. To identify the roses in the surrounding area could be therefore interesting. Since I also breed with āRose de Rescht,ā Iād be interested to know if they are repeat-flowering and have inherited that wonderful fragrance.