Way to go! I hope to have my first seedling grow next season. It looks like a nice rose.

CJ

How beautiful! Great job!

Thanks for the encouragement! And something even more exciting--this little cutie smells good, too! In spite of the fact that I made a lot of mistakes with it (that moisture-holding soil and rain do NOT mix) it's doing pretty well, I think. I'm encouraged enough to try more this year. Definitely a learning curve to this.

I'm very exciting about the coming year. I tried intentionally pollinating only one rose this year, and it's setting a hip. I hadn't looked up the genetics to see if the parents are compatible, so I don't know if anything will come of it--I was just out in the yard, desecrated the seed parent and stuck some pollen from another plant on it. Did some hi-tech identification by tying a long blade of grass around the stem, and now it's working on a big fat hip. Next year I might try getting more serious about collecting pollen and planning crosses more carefully, but as a "just for fun" project, it's pretty neat.