I just finished uploading a new video (more of a slide show, actually) to YouTube. Its title is: 'Red Galaxy' -- the spotted rose. The video is about my registered rose seedling that receives quite a bit of attention in this blog. If you care to view the 1½ minute video, I'll make it easy by providing a link -- click here to see the new video. When you are finished, don't forget to come back HERE !
Update of February 4, 2013: For those of you who might be interested in which rose I think is the seed parent of 'Red Galaxy' and why I think so, please read my update to the PAGE titled "German seedlings", which can be accessed via the tabs at the top of this blog.
January 25, 2013
January 17, 2013
Mike's secret map
This post could very well be sub-titled: How does Mike keep track of all of his rose seedlings? Especially since I don't use garden markers and haven't given the seedlings "names" (with one exception). I do it with the map shown below, and by the clever method of recording the "birthdays" of the seedlings. Here's my map --
Click on the photo to enlarge it and have fun tracking down roses referenced in this blog. The two big Q's are two of my 'Queen Elizabeth' roses; everything else are roses grown from seed, except for the 'Red Galaxy' clones that I grew from cuttings, which are identified by the dark blue circles. The orange circles identify 'Voodoo' seedlings; the green circles identify seedlings grown from seed collected in Germany (C - Cologne, T - Trier, W - Wurzburg); the light blue circles identify seedlings of the 'Red Galaxy' rose. All the other roses are from 'Queen Elizabeth' seed. The bottom row are the seedlings growing along the driveway in the front yard; the middle part of the map is the big bed of roses in the back yard. Update of September 13, 2014: the two new beds shown at the top are the REHAB bed (left) and a smaller TEST bed (right).
For those of you who studied the map and are wondering what the "Mystery Rose" in the bottom-right corner of the map is, wonder no more. It's a "volunteer" seedling that I found growing in the back yard in the Summer of 2010 (Note: the "birthday" of 6/21/2010 is a rough guess; I just assigned it the first day of Summer). It has all the earmarks of being descended from a 'Dr. Huey' rose, which is a much used root stock rose that sometimes sends out suckers, and then blooms and sometimes (though seldom) produces hips and seeds. I've seen 'Dr. Huey' growing all over town, and I'm sure my seedling resulted from a bird "depositing" the seed where it would cause the most confusion. It now has an ideal spot along the driveway. Update of May 25, 2013: The "Mystery Rose" was looking rather nice yesterday, so I took the photo shown below --
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| Updated: April 18, 2019 |
Click on the photo to enlarge it and have fun tracking down roses referenced in this blog. The two big Q's are two of my 'Queen Elizabeth' roses; everything else are roses grown from seed, except for the 'Red Galaxy' clones that I grew from cuttings, which are identified by the dark blue circles. The orange circles identify 'Voodoo' seedlings; the green circles identify seedlings grown from seed collected in Germany (C - Cologne, T - Trier, W - Wurzburg); the light blue circles identify seedlings of the 'Red Galaxy' rose. All the other roses are from 'Queen Elizabeth' seed. The bottom row are the seedlings growing along the driveway in the front yard; the middle part of the map is the big bed of roses in the back yard. Update of September 13, 2014: the two new beds shown at the top are the REHAB bed (left) and a smaller TEST bed (right).
For those of you who studied the map and are wondering what the "Mystery Rose" in the bottom-right corner of the map is, wonder no more. It's a "volunteer" seedling that I found growing in the back yard in the Summer of 2010 (Note: the "birthday" of 6/21/2010 is a rough guess; I just assigned it the first day of Summer). It has all the earmarks of being descended from a 'Dr. Huey' rose, which is a much used root stock rose that sometimes sends out suckers, and then blooms and sometimes (though seldom) produces hips and seeds. I've seen 'Dr. Huey' growing all over town, and I'm sure my seedling resulted from a bird "depositing" the seed where it would cause the most confusion. It now has an ideal spot along the driveway. Update of May 25, 2013: The "Mystery Rose" was looking rather nice yesterday, so I took the photo shown below --
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| Photo taken: May 24, 2013 |
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