I just purchased this rose and look forward to using it for breeding. I'm curious about something when looking at lineage. Shouldn't 'Rosa kordesii H. Wulf' and 'R. kordesii' automatically combine their percentages into one percentage since they are synonyms? The same thing for 'Rosa wichuraiana Crep. synonym' and 'Rosa wichurana Crepin'? I see this in a number of lineages for various rose varieties. Thank you. :-)

I am very excited that this rose won an Award of Excellence Award (an award for miniature and miniflora roses) for 2012!!! It was a seedling of mine back in 2003 and over the years it matured / developed into a nice healthy landscape miniature. In the upper Midwest many commonly sold miniatures aren't hardy enough to reliably survive and frequently defoliate from especially black spot. Oso Happy Petit Pink has minis and healthy, hardy landscape shrub roses in its background and has shown really good field resistance to black spot and leaf spot. It is nearly sterile and the old blooms fall cleanly (sometimes a little wind is needed to help) and it keeps reblooming nicely. I really like that Oso Happy Petit Pink has a mounded, well branched plant habit and it doesn't send out excessively long, asymmetric canes later in the season. It stays as a nice, building flowering mound throughout the growing season. It's health really helped it to shine in the AOE trials and ultimately seems to have been the key for it to earn an award.