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I'm loving your photos and documentation.
Thank you!
It's unfortunate Quarry Hill sin't more active in updating their collection here at HMF.
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#1 of 6 posted
5 JUL 20 by
Rosewild
Quarryhill, I think is woefully understaffed (as am I!). They're located just down the mountain from me, so to speak, and I volunteered in 2016 to survey their Rosa collection. Bill McNamara gave me permission to collect herbarium specimens and take cuttings. Tags are the bane of collections. If you hang it on the bush it gets engulfed and lost as the plant grows (and anyone who's tried to retrieve a tag inside a thorny rosebush knows how fun that is). If you put it in the ground it's destroyed or lost during weed control. And then there's the short half-life of the tag itself. Quarryhill wants to GPS their entire collection. I have one of those handheld GPS devices and used it while making my survey. I do the same in my own garden. Unfortunately I developed physical mobility issues and after a spring of visits had to quit. I discovered and learned a lot, they have a wonderful collection and a seemingly inexhaustible source of water to make it all thrive. I wish gardens like theirs could get supported somehow, someway. It's the only safe refuge for these rare species. Hope to post soon photos of the many species growing there and my notes on them.
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I'd love to see some updates on Quarryhill.
Thank you for efforts.
I sent a couple of species their way a few season ago.
The were,
R. tunquinensis
R. X lyellii
I'd love to know if they survived.
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#3 of 6 posted
8 JUL 20 by
Rosewild
Hi Neil, I don't recall seeing either of the roses you gifted QH. I also gifted them Hillier's sino-wilsonii and Fortune's Anemone flowered species, anemoneflora and one or two others I can't remember but haven't heard about them either. Unfortunately I don't have any contact with the staff since Bill left. But now that I'm getting all my QH stuff together maybe I will try to remedy that. Do you still have have your seedling grown Rosa cymosa from Dr. David Byrne's seeds? Did he tell you his source?
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It would be tragic if those species didn't survive at Quarryhill. It took me forever to root lyellii to send up that way
I sent cymosa to Jonathan Windham if memory serves. I have no idea if he still has it.
I don't know the source of David's cymosa. I do know that the one I germinated appears to be different, possibly inferior to cultivated form of cymosa pictured from Europe.
I also tried to gift these species to the Huntington and they were not interested. Sad.
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#5 of 6 posted
9 JUL 20 by
Rosewild
When I get back in touch with QH I will look into it. Indeed, a tragedy if lost. Many years ago I was fortunate to get seeds of Hulthemia persica. They grew but did not thrive until we grafted them on Silver Moon rootstock. Then they took off and bloomed profusely. We managed to produce about a half dozen plants which we passed around to UCBBG, David Byrne, and other Rose people. But all arenow lost, even our own. Perhaps we should have renewed the graft over and over?
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Thank you for your efforts.
The fellow I was dealing with at QH was Howard Higson.
I was in contact with a source for Hulthemia in Europe many years ago. As I recall I was told the clone did have to be renewed over time.
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