Thursday, April 25, 2013

I did some promising rose pollinations today, including pollinating the big pink Tea Rose 'Bon Silene' (good hip setter) with pollen from my white rambler 'Seagull'. I also pollinated 'Seagull' with my light pink Tea Rose 'Duchesse de Brabant'.

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Monday, April 8, 2013

Woo Hoo!

I've tried for YEARS to get this rose, never could....Carol Meyer is mailing me her potted one!!!!! That tangerine toning blows my mind! THANKS Carol!

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Monday, April 1, 2013

For many years now, my favorite yellow rose has been David Austin's breakthrough rose 'Graham Thomas'. In a stroke of genius he used 'Iceberg' in part to breed it for remontancy. I put a bud of GT in a coin envelope today to use this weekend as a "Dad" on 'Seagull'.


In 1989 in Denver I bought my very first Old Rose, 'Baronne Prevost' an Hybrid Perpetual from the year 1842...my neighbor Cherrie says it STILL thrives there. What a treat to have an own root, organically grown one here in my Tampa yard a second time for three years now, but THIS time in a buried 5 gallon Water Wise Container Garden. This bloom was from yesterday in the midday heat. Lovely perfume, buxom form.