tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41613303331965398182024-02-20T02:20:18.522-08:00ROSEGASMSOh, how roses can stir our souls.John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.comBlogger420125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-48873010100440536642017-02-20T19:49:00.000-08:002017-02-20T19:49:00.328-08:00Two exciting crosses today that will hopefully produce excellent for-Florida roses.....both were (Duchesse de Brabant X New Dawn).<a href="http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.1661.7">http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.1661.7</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.4460">http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.4460</a>John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-19661309900565393892017-02-19T17:03:00.002-08:002017-02-19T17:03:47.505-08:00Tomorrow at Publix I am buying my annual 'Caribbean Red' papaya for the seeds to sprout, but this year directly in the gardens for MUCH quicker growth. No more starting the seeds in pots first.....direct sowing gives me MUCH bigger plants and sooner, like this seven months old one in my east bed by the driveway. Since my soil is so fertile, I wonder if the root growth is why they do so well.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-71683551843470657332017-02-17T11:52:00.000-08:002017-02-17T11:52:29.028-08:00Three more pollinations today: (Old Blush X Eugene de Beauharnais) and (Old Blush X Oklahoma) and two of (Duchesse de Brabant X Oklahoma).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-37890148795009462702017-02-13T16:01:00.002-08:002017-02-13T16:22:28.617-08:00"Shirley's Pink" is responding beautifully to a 50% pruning with a feeding of Mill's Magic Rose Food, minor elements, dolomite and Epsom Salt about six weeks ago.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-9969654281359074152017-01-25T18:08:00.002-08:002017-01-25T18:08:53.408-08:00Just for fun today I pollinated the old Tea rose 'Mrs. B. R. Cant' with the early 20th century Hybrid Tea 'Peace'. I really hope I get a hip!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-81578511479144675492016-12-30T14:45:00.000-08:002016-12-30T14:45:01.893-08:00Today on December 30, 2016 I planted about five dozen open pollinated seeds from my nineteen year old own root and organically grown 'Seagull' here in south Tampa. In years past some seedlings resembled early Polyanthas, or miniatures like 'Popcorn' and 'Improved Popcorn'. Most are very fragrant. Always fun!<br />
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-89901718832046577892016-07-30T08:26:00.002-07:002016-07-30T08:26:34.083-07:00'Ruby Voodoo' is a rose I bred in Denver in July 1998. The Mom was the Hybrid Perpetual 'General Jacqueminot' from 1853 in my front yard, the pollen was from the Hybrid Tea 'Stephen's Big Purple' from the Cranford Rose Garden in Brooklyn when author Stephen Scanniello hosted me. The rose was chosen for commerce by the Colorado Plant Select Committee and is available retail, own root, from nurseries in Colorado and a few adjoining states. In Colorado it is incredibly cold hardy with no protection each winter. I love the Victorian look of each bloom, and the fragrance is a potent "Old Rose". I get a small royalty for each plant sold. High Country Roses in Denver sells it mail order and mailed me recently one for free to test here in Florida. One leaf was damaged by shipping but it already is growing well in an 18 gallon Water Wise Container Garden, lots of new growth. I'd be amazed if it grows well here since it so loves Colorado! Pics of the blooms were taken by people in Colorado...it'd be nice to see and smell the blooms again. I love the parentage!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-66725762068199535162016-07-11T09:28:00.004-07:002016-07-11T09:28:45.215-07:00This was suggested to me as a likely candidate for the true ID of "Shirley's Pink".....I am inclined to agree!<a href="http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.25259&tab=36&qn=2&qc=0">http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.25259&tab=36&qn=2&qc=0</a>John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-52550449182423233362016-07-09T10:31:00.001-07:002016-07-09T10:31:49.982-07:00The original "Fairmount Proserpine" in Denver's Fairmount Cemetery.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-68000305068601218752016-04-24T18:38:00.002-07:002016-04-24T18:38:37.590-07:00Just before sundown I took pics of the Mystery Rose I bought YEARS ago in Thonotossassa, before I knew this house existed, while here from Denver landscaping for my customers. LONG story so I'll just say it grew in Denver, then Tampa, then gave it to my neighbor Shirley one winter when I stayed here a few months. No thorns on new growth, BARELY blooms here, and just in spring but the fragrance is simply incredible. I also took 4 cuttings and stuck them at sundown in a pot. My best guess all these years has been 'Reine des Violettes'.....study name is "Shirley's Pink". In JUST the right conditions in Denver, 'Reine des Violettes' can be amazingly purple, but is usually a shade of pink. This own root one has been in Tampa for 15 years. I gave Shirley a gallon of an awesome organic feeding solution, and after she waters it a second time I will give it a deep mulch for better health and to see if it can bloom more often.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-12440621909889777442016-04-21T10:56:00.001-07:002016-04-21T11:16:47.159-07:00My favorite rose breeder hands down, Warren Millington whose breadth and imagination are vast! Check out the pics of his MANY hybrids!<a href="http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=7.19509&tab=21">http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=7.19509&tab=21</a>John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-54039101989005244352016-04-17T07:38:00.000-07:002016-04-17T07:38:03.411-07:00New blooms on "Secret Garden Musk Climber".....unbelievable cinnamon oil perfume!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-27815646661008475462016-04-12T14:44:00.001-07:002016-04-12T14:44:45.622-07:00LONG story...in 1995, three years before I bought my Tampa house, I was here from Denver in a rental car to service my landscape customers. I was told to visit a very old rosarian woman in Thonotossassa, I bought this rose from her potted collection and took it to Denver. Most of her roses came from northern Georgia. It was in Denver under glass in a pot, then in a Lutz garden north of Tampa, then I gave it to my neighbor Shirley here around 2000. Each spring she brings me one of the VERY few rose blooms, each with a fragrance that is simply incredible...it blooms just once a year here in Zone 9B. It has zero thorns, greyish-green leaves, gets maybe 5 feet tall here. She cuts it back each February, gives it chemical fertilizer now and then. I just gave her a home made one gallon jug filled with various wonderful organic nutrients mixed into water. Tomorrow she will apply it and give the rose a deep watering. I have always felt it likely is the Hybrid Perpetual 'Reine des Violettes' from 1860. She left a LONG cane uncut and told me to take it for cuttings tomorrow. The fragrance will take your breath away....my neighbor Theresa was simply amazed when I gave it to her!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-91658526020710681502016-04-10T11:58:00.001-07:002016-04-10T11:58:14.936-07:00Bloom on the old climber 'New Dawn' today. I a few moments later boinked it with Rosa laevigata (Cherokee Rose).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-22564062481219340622016-04-09T10:22:00.002-07:002016-04-09T10:22:09.983-07:00New growth on my own root 'Hansa' rose I got from White Flower Farm.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-13097921555261606722016-04-05T07:59:00.002-07:002016-04-05T07:59:06.876-07:00'Eugene de Beauharnas' today, a little plant in a pot.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-32826410440239714132016-04-01T12:13:00.001-07:002016-04-01T12:13:47.834-07:00Open blooms of 'Alister Stella Gray' and 'Eugene de Beauharnias'....the second has incredible perfume!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-84717138849702437082016-03-28T15:41:00.000-07:002016-03-28T15:41:06.540-07:00'Alister Stella Gray'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-12957579695522085902016-03-28T14:45:00.002-07:002016-03-28T14:45:46.816-07:00Today's boinks: ('Alister Stella Gray' X Rosa laevigata) and ('Monsieur Tillier' X "Secret Garden Musk Climber")John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-90776635177772884482016-03-26T13:38:00.001-07:002016-03-26T13:38:35.352-07:00I heard of the California Mystery Rose "Secret Garden Musk Climber" many years ago in Denver, long before I knew my Tampa house even existed. Hard to get...I was on the waiting list for two years. Famed rosarian Fred Boutin told me once he feels a possible parentage might be (unknown white Floribunda rose X Rosa moschata). Mine has been growing several months.....first bloom this morning. The fragrance is just like people say.....pure cinnamon oil!!! I so hope it thrives here like it does in southern California! Kim Rupert says it is not a good seed parent, so I picked the bloom and put in a baggie in the fridge as a pollen parent.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-56550134130148593112016-03-24T09:56:00.001-07:002016-03-24T09:56:11.400-07:00Today's rose boinks: (Duchesse de Brabant X "Barfield White Climber") and (Crepuscule X. Rosa laevigata).John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-7404914939090996232016-03-21T14:13:00.001-07:002016-03-21T14:13:57.631-07:00First rose boinks of 2016.....(Duchesse de Brabant X Rosa laevigata) and (Duchesse de Brabant X "Pink Cracker Rose").John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-63600868698598042202016-03-20T19:25:00.001-07:002016-03-20T19:25:33.913-07:00Hi Mr. Hansen, My name is John Starnes and when I lived and taught in Denver I spent 12 years teaching the board of Fairmount Cemetery just what they had there....a remarkable living treasure. I invited many rosarians to visit this great historic place, including Michael Shoup, Fred Boutin, Stephen Scanniello, William Grant and many many more to see the 77 roses I found on their 240 acres over the years. In 1997 I co-hosted the Heritage Rose Conference in Denver and loved taking nearly 200 rosarians to see and experience the grandeur of Fairmount Cemetery. I used my gardening column in The Rocky Mountain News to encourage people to visit, and sent cuttings of the very rare Mystery Roses to many rose growers, like "Fairmount Red" and "Fairmount Proserpine", year after year. I could bore you with endless details and developments, both good and bad, but instead I very deeply hope that you LISTEN to the many rosarians who are contacting you and others in Sacramento who simply want you all to just leave "well enough alone" and instead be proud of YOUR living treasure there. Many of the roses, like at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, are unique indeed and are deserving of being treasured vs. moved and/or destroyed. I am sure you are aware of the love that so many people feel for the cemetery and its Old Roses....please do not waste this opportunity to preserve it for countless generations. John Starnes 813 839 0881John A Starneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11960012017565150624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4161330333196539818.post-4915833454977296502016-03-19T16:11:00.001-07:002016-03-19T16:11:04.139-07:00These various pollens will be kept in the fridge and used over the next few months plus others, often on my favorite seed parents 'Francois Juranville' and 'Seagull'.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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