Rose Hybridizing

'Thrive!', a healthy descendent of the 'Knock Out'® rose, is a new landscape type rose that is being introduced by Star R...

When breeding for Hulthemia hybrids, it is the blotch that is the focus of one's attention.  Seedlings lacking blotches, or those having...

The first rose depicted below is not a Hulthemia.  It is one of my favorite informal floribunda type seedlings for our area.  It blooms prof...

The Hulthemia blotch has fascinated many of us ever since Harkness and Cocker released their first hybrids.  In this post, I wanted to highl...

This is a short departure from writing about the new Hulthemias, to write about an older seedling.  With this post, I wanted to highlight th...

For anyone already reading this blog, it is clear that the characteristic defining difference between regular roses and Hulthemia rose hybri...

Here are more Hulthemia petals coming from some of the new 2011 seedlings. As is seen above, the reverse is almost always lighter than th...

Just like regular roses, Hulthemias come in all types of bloom forms - there are singles, to semidoubles, all the way up to hundred petal ty...

This seedling was a happy surprise!  It's always a special treat getting something that I have never seen before. It's like finding...

This is by far the smallest Hulthemia seedling that I have grown.  The height of the plant is not as tall as the thickness of my hand.  Ther...

This seedling, code named N210-1, sprouted last year.  It came from a batch of "OP" seeds from one of my earlier repeat blooming H...

Among the new 2011 seedlings today, I had the opportunity to encounter one of the most intense blotches that I have seen thus far in the Hul...

The warmer weather has brought on the peak bloom rather quickly.  Approximately 1/3 of the 1,000 potted roses seen here are new 2010 rose se...

The first 3 photos below are of more 2011 Hulthemias.  The last 2 are photos of two Hulthemias from 2010 that are blooming for the first tim...

Today, there were many new seedlings blooming for the first time necessitating much culling.  There were many Hulthemias that had to be cull...

The two Hulthemia seedlings that I will highlight in this post are more interesting to me than the previous two seedlings that I have been w...

Well the two seedlings that we have been watching have bloomed!  Neither one is very impressive.  The first seedling does turn out to be a H...