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Love the purple wood of R. Setigera Patricia & it grows beautifully here. Although I love its "wildness", I would like to tame it even if just a little. I have 2 seedlings out of it here from last season (the cross is R. Setigera x 'Simon Robinson') & one is tall & lanky but the other is low-growing & bushy. Neither has bloomed yet of course but I definitely look forward to them doing so! Who knows if one - or both - could be the beginning of something great! :-)
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I've always particularly wanted to grow R. setigera ever since I stood in front of "Moser House Shed Rose" in California. And just lately I've been wondering if there is any purple-ness in the wood of R. setigera's descendants 'Long John Silver' and 'Baltimore Belle'. The versions I have are too young and struggling.
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I had Baltimore Belle here years ago & I don't recall it having purple stems. I wasn't fussed on that rose at all really & don't miss it even though it can look very beautiful in photos. Kind of makes me wonder why I want to use setigera in my breeding but then I remind myself of the purple stems, different foliage & the fact it is very easy to grow from a cutting. FWIW one year I put open-pollinated R. Setigera seeds in a glass of water & promptly forgot about them when they were relocated to a bright window-sill...all the seeds germinated in the water & survived transplanting into soil. Talk about tough!
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Trouble is, the versions in Aus of Baltimore Belle and Long John Silver are both said by experts (ie not my idea) to be incorrect. I don't know whether what we have are Setigera descendants.
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17 AUG 14 by
 Jay-Jay
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Rudolph Geschwind used R. Setigera for breeding very nice and hardy roses.
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