My rose seeds are starting to germinate in earnest now. It’s always exciting to see them start popping like popcorn. Of course, now I’ll have to pot them up and get them under lights. That’s far less exciting. At the moment the germinated seeds are all coming from two plants. One is a Little Darling and the other is a seedling of Deep Purple. If the seedlings from the DP seedling take after the mom but in different colors, I will be very happy indeed. The DP seedling has dark red blooms– scentless, unfortunately, but not surprisingly– in abundance. At its peak, the plant is smothered by the profusion of blooms. Even if I ended up with more seedlings that look just like it (which is, after all, highly likely given that they are OP), I’d be pretty happy. I’d have red blooms like mad. But the same profusion in another color would be awesome, too. I’m not expecting anything particularly interesting from the Little Darling seedlings, but I could easily end up being pleasantly surprised. I did those mostly because I had a bunch of hips and didn’t want them to go to waste.
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