To celebrate a Summer bounty of pretty rose blooms, let's test your ability to identify a world-famous rose among the 4 photos shown below. The other 3 are one-of-a-kind roses that are found only in my rose garden, and which remain unnamed. No hints for you, and best of luck. Answers revealed beneath the photos.
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| Photo taken: June 20, 2018 |
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| Photo taken: June 24, 2018 |
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| Photo taken: June 26, 2018 |
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| Photo taken: June 26, 2018 |
Answers: The world-famous 'Queen Elizabeth' rose is the left rose on the bottom row. The other 3, as different as they look from each other and their parent, are seedlings that I grew from their common parent -- the 'Queen Elizabeth' rose. The parent was open pollinated, and very likely "self" pollinated.
Update of June 28, 2018: In addition to the 3 seedling roses shown above, I have 36 other seedlings that I grew from the 'Queen Elizabeth' rose. Of those 39 roses, only
ONE shows any close similarity to its parent -- see my post of September 5, 2015 ("
The look-alikes"). There is much diversity in this group of 39, as shown below when classified by petal count:
- 9 Singles (4 to 8 petals) See my post of May 31, 2012 ("Singles are nice, too")
- 6 Semi-doubles (9 to 16 petals)
- 18 Doubles (17 to 25 petals)
- 3 Full (26 to 40 petals)
- 3 Very full (41 or more petals)
