Newsletter  (May 2018)  Page(s) 40.  
 
[From "Hardy Roses in Iceland", by Vilhjálmur Lúðvíksson, pp. 37-41]
The first examples of locally raised roses came in the 60´s and 70´s from rather accidental sourcing of imported rose seeds. Thus the hardy spinosissma variety 'Katrín Viðar', the tough rugosa variety 'Skotta' as well as the beautiful but botanically ill-defined 'Métis'-like 'Yndisrós' (seed marked Rosa hypoleuca) all emerged as noticeably floriferous seedlings and were selected from groups of less interesting siblings at the Reykjavik Botanical Gardens