I’d like to hear evaluations of the following roses for the following characteristics:
Disease Resistance (under no or low/organic spray)
Ease of parenting as seed and/or pollen parent
Livin’ Easy
Sexy Rexy
Abraham Darby
Geisha
George Burns
Shocking Blue
Outta the BLue
Blue Skies
Westerland
Thanks in Advance
I really like Livin’ Easy–
I use it for everything now.
I have an especially nice seedling of it with Goldmoss. The seedling itself is mossless, but a similar color to Livin’ Easy but with more petals.
It can pass glossy foilage very well.
Yesterday I found some seedlings of it with a rugosa hybrid. This next season I will try to breed it.
It will breed look a likes often…
but then you’ll see some very nifty seedlings too. For example, seedlings of it with Rugelda were very Pernetia like in color. But they were very disease prone.
But then there’s another seedling of mine with Orange Ruffels that’s fairly disease resistant. It has holly like foilage.
Livin’ Easy - good all around
Sexy Rexy - gets blackspot here, people tell me it sets readily but my hips were tiny.
Abraham Darby - pollen works well
Geisha - nice but minor mildew
George Burns -massive blackspot, havent tried it as parent
Shocking Blue - good all around
Outta the BLue - really icky seedlings for me, healthy
plant. Dislikes heat.
Blue Skies - no clue
Westerland - good all around
This is for the Portland metro area. So moderate temps. Black spot area. Low mildew area. High humidity. Continual rain except for June, July and August.