Thread: My really cool striped seedling (photos)

It will be very interesting to follow the future of this as it continues to grow.

Hi everyone! Once again, great comments and name suggestions! I think all of your ideas are worth pondering and I will have to try to decide on a name one day. I am saving this post so I can keep all your suggestions for consideration. I can't wait til next summer when I can see what my seedling will do. I promise to keep you all up-to-date. Thanks, rose-friends!! Celeste

There area number of roses named Celeste although no shrubs with that name. C?leste (alba, syn. 'Celestial') (1739). C?leste (gallica, Descemet, pre-1815) (1799). C?leste (Hybrid China, Hybrid Tea / Large-Flowered, Tea.) (1845). C?leste (centifolia) C?leste (alba, Dupont, pre 1810)

An OP or Open Pollinated hip/seed is the pollination of a rose flower and the resulting hips/seeds where there was no intentional cross made. Ma Nature took care of the fertilization herself either by the rose self-pollinating itself with it's own pollen or by an insect going from one rose bloom to another and carrying pollen around with it, thereby pollinating roses with pollen from other blooms it had visited. Hope this clears that up...

Do you think that this rose would look good in an arrangement or bouquet with something like Dainty Bess or Sparrieshoop? I think it would, but I am just curious.

Oh, wow, what a beautiful seedling Celeste, so gorgeous! If it were up to me, LOL, I would have named it Celestial Sweetness, because!!!! it would reflect your! wonderful lovely personality. I love its touch of unique cinnamon pattens and swirls. Absolutely a winner, just as Karl says!

Hi Celeste, Thats some gorgeous stripeys you have. What is open pollinating seeds? I really want to attempt to cross some of my own roses and play around a little next year just not sure how to go about it. I know someone on here once told me how but I lost the thread on it. Hope all is well with your family. Thanks for sharing, Judy

It does look alot like my 'Fourth of July', but different enough...:) I like the name "Cherry Bomb"... but that's already been taken. How about "Cherry Cheesecake"... it has all the right colors. Rob

Congratulations on your new baby! Very, very pretty. I like the suggestion of 'celestial fire'. A successful experiment - you may be on to a new obsession. :)

OOOOH! Did you keep records of who the seed came from?