Please share the best roses you have grown from seed.
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Comments (15)This year I sowed Giant Violet Queen and Miss Willmont (pink)together in the bed behind the mailbox, around which (box) the wild blue chickory blooms the entire month of July. Sowed the week of Memorial Day; and the plants, both varieties, are less than one foot tall! And finally have started to bloom this week - pale lavender, washed out pink, and there are even a couple dark rose, nearly red blooms. Mill Willmont is suppose at least 36" high. In past years, I've never had a problem growing healthy, true to height zinnias (albeit not the colors promised sometimes)in this bed. I'm wondering if it's because I amended the soil by adding a rich compost mix. Do they prefer ordinary to poor soil? The weather was cool and then rainy for quite a while,too....See MoreWhich roses have you grown simply due to their names?
Comments (61)Seil, I like your "Son of a Peach". Tom Carruth used to tell the story of the marketing meeting to name his new (at the time) peach colored mossed mini. One of the other employees came up with "Peach Fuzz" and the rose became HIS. Karen, you could, if it grows well in your area, grow Peace as it was sold in Italy as Gloria Dei (Glory to God) or even Gloria Mundi, the poly. That one is not quite as readily available as Peace, but cuttings can be had if they're wanted. Kim...See Morebest bicolor you have grown in oklahoma?
Comments (10)Jeff, No need to apologize. It is just that there are hundreds of bicolor varieties available, so I wanted to narrow down exactly what you were looking for so I could suggest something in that category. I haven't grown Gold Medal, so cannot specifically comment on it. The reason I haven't grown it is that I have found that in our climate, red and yellow bicolor varieties that produce large fruit tend to produce pretty late in the season which increases the odds that hot daytime/nighttime temperatures in summer will shut down fruit set almost before it begins. In the category of red and gold bicolor tomatoes, I like Hillbilly the best. I also like Lucky Cross but it produces late and poorly in our heat, so I stopped growing it. Little Lucky produces fruit with flavor similar to Lucky Cross and produces better for me. Both Little Lucky and Lucky Cross have about the best flavor I've ever seen in any bicolor, but they don't produce well enough in our heat to earn a regular spot on my tomato grow list. One bi-color/tri-color tomato that has produced awesome large tomatoes here (but only in a long cool, mild and wet spring) is Ananas Noir/Black Pineapple. I got the seed for it from Baker Creek. Because our heat is hard on varieties that produce very large tomatoes, I don't grow a lot of bi-colors since most of them do produce huge fruit. I don't like devoting space to a plant that might only give me 3 or 6 fruit all year long. When I do plant bicolors nowadays, I tend to plant the smaller-fruited ones. In that category, Black and Brown Boar is the best producer I've ever seen although its fruit are not huge. It set huge loads of red and green striped fruit for me in 2012. Michael Pollan, which produces yellow and green striped tomatoes produces very well in the heat here too, although its shape can be a little variable. Probably my favorite bicolor in the 2000s overall, though, is a red and green striped one called Chocolate Stripes. It has produced loads of fruit for me even when grown in a 20-gallon container in a horrendously hot and dry year, and the fruit were quite large considering the growing conditions. Pink Berkeley Tie Dye and Berkeley Tie Dye have produced almost as well for me in years when spring was moderately cool and fairly wet, but not as well in hotter springs. Speckled Roman is a red and yellow/yellowish-orange striped paste tomato that produces incredibly well in our heat and I love this one for making salsa or pasta sauce. Last year, I grew several striped cherry tomatoes, including Rambling Gold Stripe and Rambling Red Stripe. Both of these plants were grown in containers and did not stop producing until they froze last week. I had moved them into the greenhouse in October or November, and the Rambling Gold Stripe still had flowers and brand new fruit forming in the last few days right before we went down to 12 degrees and everything in the unheated greenhouse froze. Finally, although I like Baker Creek a great deal, plenty of their tomatoes that I've planted here have not lived up to the expectations I had based upon reading what they wrote in their catalog. Let's face it.....almost all the retail seed sellers are going to tell us that each variety they sell is great because they want us to buy it. I have avoided buying from a few companies that endlessly hype everything they sell because every variety cannot possibly be as wonderful as they make them sound, and it is frustrating to read these wonderful descriptions and plant a variety only to have it be almost a total dud here. Texas Star is a bicolor I've grown twice, and I liked it but I only get maybe 4 to 6 fruit from it in the best of years, and we haven't had that kind of year in a while now. They have great flavor and set fruit pretty early, but then the heat shuts them down early. If I could know in advance we'd have a nice rainy spring like we did in 2004 or 2007, I'd plant Texas Star again in a heartbeat. Probably the most productive red and yellow bicolor I've ever planted was from a Bonnie Plants transplant purchased in March of the year I grew it, which might have been around 2004 or so, and it was sold as Mr. Stripey or Tigerella. It had great flavor and produced tons of fruit. I grew it in a much hotter drier year and it didn't do nearly as well....which gets back to the essential reason that I don't grow many bicolors....their inconsistency in this climate. Finally, for anyone wondering why I didn't mention one of my all-time favorites that even has the word 'Stripe' in its name, I did not mention Indian Stripe because to me it falls into the black tomato or purple tomato category more than the bicolor category since its striping is faint at best and almost nonexistent some years. It does have superb flavor though. Dawn...See More5 yr old avocado tree grown from seed
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Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
2 years agoMy only rose from seed is baby Alika who's mother was the red gallica. I lived in Alaska at the time and I think the dad was a wild Alaskan rose. It is the single pink with Hazeldean the yellow spinosissima.
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoThis is the momma plant I collected the seeds from! I think I collected them in 2015 if the picture is correctly dated in my device; that would make my seedlings five years old this year. (There is another post coming from my mobile device that's still uploading, and it has pictures of my seedlings)
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2 years agoMmm, unfortunately I would say I'm not knowledgeable enough in that regard to make an appropriate and accurate statement.
I've heard with trees at least that when selecting seedlings or seeds it's best to obtain them from a location as physically close or as similar climate-wise as one's own.
With Rosa setigera being native to the area (along with several others; I particularly love R. palustris) and with the seeds collected within 40 miles, it's entirely possible they'd be "better" than ones from Tennessee or such. Where they are also gets good sunlight and the soil is deep and rich. Definitely some of the best stuff on the property. So I'm sure that helps too.
Plus, even though they need no actual care, they're my babies and in my garden, so I do gently manicure them, especially this spring now that they're growing up. They might also get a little of the fertilizer solution that nearby Gertrude Jekyll and A Shropshire Lad are.By the way- I have not tied these in with anything. These plants are supporting themselves with aid of the fence posts, but no tie-in's!
Have I mentioned the brilliant autumn colours yet? I should have!
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2 years agoMarianne, right? The colors look like someone hand painted each one with their unique blend . I wish I could get a hold of a plant. I had cuttings but don't think any rooted.
I have some seedlings I really like. I don't think it's that hard to grow them from seed but I can't say my germination rate is that great. Some germinate much better than others so if you get discouraged, consider that it could be due to the variety.
I have some seedlings this year. Two were from Midnight Blue and were gorgeous white with a hint of peacny pink in the centers. Beautiful form and colors and big blooms for tiny little plants. These plants are not vigorous , even now in May. But so pretty I am sure I will want to grow these for my own enjoyment. To me it's fun to name them. I keep up with them better if I name them rather than assign a number. One great bloomer this year is such a saturated pink...it's just cheery, so I named it Encouraging Word. Haven't downloaded pics yet.
I have a seedling I named Gentleman Bob after my husband. It is being beautiful this moment. I think it's a climber...has a spray of lovely coral semi double blooms. Can't get a good pic..they come out orange. But what fun.
My Lauren Elizabeth seedling. It came from Cl. Crimson Glory. Has a lot of petals, good rebloom, pretty good vigor, and an intense fragrance. It usually looks more deep pink than red.
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2 years agolast modified: 2 years agoAll beautiful seedlings! I especially love Marianne. I have a one-year-old own root Marianne, and I can't wait when it's more mature in my garden. I normally don't grow once-bloomer roses because of limited space but Marianne earns its spot in my garden.
This is my first open-pollinated seedling of James Galway. Its named is Anhle. Helen
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