Question!

Has anyone here ever tried to breed their own roses to develop their own variety?

I have been toying with the idea of crossing some of my striped roses...I know this type off thing takes time, patients and often than not ends in disappointment...but still the urge is there.

Donna

We do have a couple of successful hybridizers here; I hope they will see your inquiry.

Donna: That is how new rose cultivars are "discovered" , ruling out the odd "sport" that Mother Nature breeds. All the famous Rose Breeders, i.e. Kordes, Tantau, David Austin, Weeks, and on and on do it continuously. AND, numerous individuals play at it, sometimes with amazing results. It does take a lot of work, in that you have to isolate the rose you want to pollinate from insects, etc. and hand pollinate it with pollen from the "donor" you want to cross with it. Then you have to plant the seeds from your crossing, and plant them out and wait a few years to see what appears? Lot of work but it certainly can and is done somewhere on this Planet all the time. I know you accidentally misspelt "patients", but there is the probability that one could wind up being a "patient" in pursuing this quest! LOL. Go for it! Cheers!

@sunnyvalley does quite a lot of crosses with her roses but she hasn't been on the site for a while. I follow her on Facebook, so I know she's quite busy right now, her established roses are finishing up first flush and her seedling beds are coming into full bloom. Here are some she has named and registered.

She did an interesting cross last year that has first year blooms currently. The parents are Black Baccara, a hybrid tea florist rose, and Little Artist, a miniature. I couldn't tell the size of the blooms from the photos (they were deep pink and fully doubled), but I'm curious to find out.

I communicated with Sharlene recently. She stated she was really busy with her rose seedlings and the iris hybridizing. She asked to please pass on her regards to her 'rose friends'.