|
|
'Schoener's Nutkana' rose Reviews & Comments
-
-
|
ARS Magazine, May-June, 1933
Hybridizing Species Roses
J. H. NICOLAS
Crosses of species roses and Hybrid Teas sometimes give strange results not always compatible—to the layman's eye —with the parents, but, apparently, they are to be expected when unrelated or distant types are cross-bred: A friend of mine [Schoener] sent me a hybrid reputed to be a cross of R. nutkana and Paul Neyron, a shrubby, vigorous plant but without apparent trace of Nutkana, although the bloom was single and pink. As it excited a great deal of skepticism as to its true origin, I planted a handful of selfed seeds, and in the lot came several more or less Nutkana types, and one almost pure Nutkana in all particulars, even with its root-stolons traveling long distances. This experience satisfied the doubting Thomases—including myself.
|
REPLY
|
-
-
|
Took care of a couple of plants as a gardener at Rancho--plants responded very well to spur pruning, which produced well-set flowers and emphasized the arching branches. Good specimen plant IMO.
|
REPLY
|
-
-
|
This is just 'Schoener's Nutkana's second year in our garden and we were blown away by the contrast between the gorgeous intensely dark pink blooms and the beautiful, clean, grey-green foliage. Being in Santa Barbara, we wanted to grow a rose that had been hybridized here (by Santa Barbara's "Padre of the Roses," Father George Schoener). The 150th Anniversary of his birth is coming up on March 21, 2014 so we wanted to have his two remaining roses in our garden - the other one is a lovely HP, 'Arrillaga'.
|
REPLY
|
Reply
#1 of 1 posted
3 MAY 13 by
Tessie
|
I think it is a lovely rose! Healthy as a horse, gorgeous flowers, and tough as old army boots. The local botanic garden has multiple HUGE plants. Some even growing in shade. Contrary to the HMF listing, all of them rebloom. I've asked the propagator there (Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, a California native plant specialist) to propagate Schoener's Nutkana for the fall plant sale. I'm a member so I will follow up which will hopefully see this accomplished.
11/8/14 update to 5/3/13 post--RSABG has a fair number of this rose, propagated from their own plants, in stock right now in 1 gallon pots. I brought one home with me today. I happened to mention to propagator Antonio Sanchez that HMF says this rose is a once bloomer. He gave me a strange look and commented about how much it repeats.;)
Melissa
|
REPLY
|
-
-
|
Today, volume 7, pages 21-21+ (Feb. 20, 1937)
Padre of the Roses
Harold D. Jacobs
He chose the hardy wild Nutkana as a parent stock because it could withstand the cold northern climate and it bloomed early. He selected the Paul Neyton,[sic] an old and large French rose, as its mate. Working literally like a bee, he pollenized 1,500 blooms the first spring. But the only result was to prove what he had learned in his botany classes: that a wild rose will not take pollen from any other species.
Then his next step was to graft the Nutkana onto the vine of the Paul Neyton as a sort of blood transfusion. It worked! — and after fertilizing this plant, he obtained five perfect fruits. The product of this seed is Schoener's Nutkana, well known to rose lovers — a large, single pink rose, which sends up shoots seven to eight feet high each year and produces bunches of flowers from every eye along the stem.
|
REPLY
|
|
