Rose Hybridizing

Culling seedlings, especially later in the season, can be difficult.  Once an unpropagated seedling is culled, it is gone forever.  Since we...

I've been keeping an "eye" on this new 2016 seedling while it has continued to develop outside the greenhouse this summer into...

This blog post highlights a "family" of new 2017 seedlings coming from a cross that I made last year between two of my unnamed see...

Having bred roses now for almost 30 years, I have learned that one shouldn't get excited about rose seedlings in their first year.  Most...

I love using some of Will Radler's roses in my breeding program.  He has done amazing work to help clean up roses available on the marke...

This is directed especially and foremost to my Mom, Shirley Bade Sproul.  Happy Mothers Day!!  Thank you for your strength, love and determi...

There are still many more new seedlings blooming everyday for the first time.  Some of these will be "keepers", at least for awhil...

I had missed culling for the last 2 or 3 days, so I had my work cut out for me today.  In the before and after photos, about 600 seedlings h...

This seedling bloomed for the very first time on Easter morning, ten years ago.  That morning it was nicknamed "Easter Morning...

The new 2017 seedlings are beginning to bloom!  It will be fun to see what this year's crop brings.  Already there have been some worth ...

And it has a blotch! I was very pleased with the blotch on this 'Tigris' seedling.  When I first started breeding with 'Tigri...

Four years ago, I decided that I would like to try breeding some of the more modern Hulthemias back to 'Tigris'.  That of course was...

The lilac seedlings are just starting to bloom.  There are four seedlings this year that are blooming and this is the 4th year since I plant...

The seedlings are continuing to germinate and some of the earliest ones are developing their first flower buds.  It won't be long until ...