Every year when the seedling benches are being emptied in the fall to get ready for planting the new rose seeds, there are a handful of seedlings from important crosses that germinated late and were too small to evaluate. Most years, some of these will get put into small 5 inch pots and moved out to the "salvage" yard. This area is on the other side of the greenhouse where I don't get to on a daily basis. As a result, these salvaged seedlings are often neglected. Sometimes the water malfunctions, and many seedlings meet their demise by getting too dry. Perhaps some of the survivors will have better drought tolerance.
The two seedlings shown below are moving up to big pots so that they can show their true potential. The first appears to be a mini and has a very large blotch.
The second seedling looks like a real treasure. It is from one of the 'Darlow's Enigma' Hulthemia crosses. What I like about this one is that it looks like it wants to be floriferous like 'Darlow's Enigma', and it is the only Hulthemia from 'Darlow's Enigma' that has the wonderful Darlow's fragrance. I can't wait 'til this one matures!
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