I've written elsewhere in this blog about my registered rose seedling which I named 'Red Galaxy' -- see my posting of May 22, 2012 (A rose by any other name . . .) and see also the "German seedlings" tab. This rose seedling has been gifted with spotted blooms, and is also special because it is remontant, meaning it will bloom throughout the growing season. Other spotted roses that I have seen on the web are once-blooming and are likely to be either Gallica roses or seedlings of Gallica roses.
When you look at other photos of 'Red Galaxy' in this blog, you may detect that the rose bush has been moved. To give it better protection from the elements, I moved it from the driveway to my back yard late last year (2011). The rose bush responded very well, proving its toughness. Below are some photos of the rose bush and its blooms. I'll add more photos later this Summer (and Fall) so that we can see just how remontant it is. The "birthday" of this seedling was February 23, 2009.
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| June 10, 2011 |
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| June 1, 2012 |
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| June 1, 2012 |
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| June 1, 2012 |
Update of July 18, 2012: A second flush of blooms is now in progress, with the Summer heat causing the blooms to develop a very bright red-orange color and less darkness on the periphery of each bloom. This would have to be the brightest colored seedling in my garden. Here's some photos that I took today:
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| July 18, 2012 |
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| July 18, 2012 |
To get a preview of things to come, let's go back in time to October 2nd of 2010, when I loaded a short 22 second video to YouTube having the title:
German rose seedlings along driveway. If you stop the video at the 17 second mark, you will see the young 'Red Galaxy' seedling in bloom -- it is the 3rd rose from the right. At the time, it was just 19 months old and in its second growing season, giving a strong indication that this was indeed a remontant rose. Here's a link to the video:
October 2010 videoUpdate of August 31, 2012: We're at that time of year when the number of rose blooms starts to slack off, but thankfully their beauty remains the same. The photo of August 4th was taken on the hottest day of the year, when the temperature reached 102 degrees F. The time was around 8 p.m., and the bloom showed absolutely no stress. I couldn't resist taking another photo this evening; the three blooms formed a very nice symmetrical mini-cluster.
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| August 4, 2012 |
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| August 31, 2012 |
