One of my unnamed seedlings from the 'Queen Elizabeth' rose has blooms that look rather old fashioned. The blooms have the most petals of any of my seedlings, and in rose terminology are considered to be "very full". It's interesting that even at an early age, when the seedling opened its very first bloom, this modern rose looked old fashioned. That's its first bloom shown below in the photo on the left, and to its right is a photo of one of today's blooms. I used the bloom on the right to make an official count of the number of petals, and there's all 119 of them displayed on the table in the third photo.
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Photo taken: August 11, 2009
Rose plant was just 3 months old |
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| Photo taken: September 16, 2015 |
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| Photo taken: September 16, 2015 |
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| Photo taken: August 5, 2016 |
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Update of August 5, 2016: I added a new photo today (the fourth photo above), seeing that the rose bush was displaying a beautiful cluster of blooms this morning. The summer heat is making it easier for the "very full" blooms to open properly.
