I would have donated several roses to the auction, if only someone had contacted me. I've offered before....

Paul, we would gladly still accept whatever you have that you would like to donate. I can still add to this year's list. Contact me at the above email addy. I tried to email you privately, but I may have an old address for you.

Don't know who it was that said no before, but I think they must have been out of line.

I know you grow a lot of neat roses, and we'd be really happy to be able to offer one or more of them.

Thank you,

Kathy Strong

fyi, Dr. Jack Bender is a great rose! Very winter hardy and disease resistant HT. This rose has not been offered for sale since Moore's shut their doors. About 5 feet tall and 2.5 feet wide here in Michigan.

Kathy - Can you still bid for me?

After looking over that list I could go broke with all the plants I'd like to get. Really nice list of roses.

Will do, Mike.

And I have contacted Trospero, and he has agreed to donate some of the very newest of his newly registered varieties, so that is something else for you all to look forward to. Yahoo and THANK YOU!

More to come on that, or Trospero, if you are reading this, please give us all a rundown on what's included here.

Why can't I have a cheap vice like horse racing, craps, or poker?

What do the asterisks mean that are at the end of the line on some of the roses on both the Silent Auction and Live Auction lists?

Melissa

Good question Melissa -- I actually didn't know the answer to that one myself. I had to go chase down the info. But now I know. It means the rose is in a 5 gallon or bigger container, and that we would therefore prefer not to ship it.

Sometimes we try to say "non-shippable" as to some roses, but really, when push comes to shove, we ship anything if the highest bidder needs it to be shipped. But we then have to bare-root it, and sometime severely prune it also So bid away.

We only ship, however, in the U.S.

Kathy

quite a lot of stripey sorts.

Hey folks --

We now have three new introductions from Paul Barden to offer you in this years auction. Check these out:

Dakota Redwing
Castle Bravo
Dominic Sunset

Links to the HMF listings for these roses are on the Live Auction List. There are also many other new additions from the last time you looked at the auction lists, most probably -- these lists is always a work in progress, right up to a week before the auction date.

Kathy

Here is a link that might be useful: CCRS Live Auction List

Who is coming???

Next weekend, folks . . .

"We now have three new introductions from Paul Barden to offer you in this years auction. Check these out:

Dakota Redwing
Castle Bravo
Dominic Sunset "

It may be of interest to know that all three of these new varieties is not yet available in commerce; these plants are pre-release donations. The buyer will be the first to grow these new roses :-)

What a wonderful opportunity!

I was sent the Auction Bidding lists, there are many more roses on the list, I hope you all take a look.

(I had my form filled out....then the sons car broke down)

Kippy come join us. If you are in Zone 10 - Sunset 24, you can't be far away, can you? And the seminars the day before are completely FREE!

And thank you again to Trospero for the pre-release donations!

Kathy

Kathy

I am in Santa Barbara, it is a long SLOW drive through LA to get there. Or an $80 round trip train ride (bet I would not have to share a row with a box full of roses in my lap)

Well, then I guess there's always that internet bid list you started working on. Keep going.

Hey Kathy, I see QUICKSILVER on the silent auction list, but it's not on the bidding form. I would be interested in bidding on it.

I would not be at all surprised if there were mistakes on the forms, as we keep adding things. But just to see I just took a look at that one. On the form I just downloaded, quicksilver is there.

If there's something that you want to bid on and the form is wrong -- just add it. We'll figure it out when we get the form, and if we can't we'll shoot you a note to ask.

Kathy

Quicksilver is a cool rose, btw, I grow it -- very vigorous for a cool lavender, unlike most in that color group. And it is also one that I think we have saved from extinction -- at the time we put it in our auction a few years back there was only one known plant anywhere (at the J&P facility in Somis) and now the J&P facility in Somis is long gone. J&P was using it in their effort to create a bluer rose.

Go for it, Beth. Your garden probably also has a few that would be the sole survivors of a variety. Let me know if you think any are "worthy" and you want to give us some bud wood to get a few more going to sell.

Saving worthy but undistributed roses from extinction is what we are all about. I can't tell you how many times we have gotten rare varieties going, only to find out the source of our plant had died from some stupid mistake by someone somewhere (usually a public garden) and then we were able to replace their plant with something we grew from it.

Thanks,
Kathy

This post was edited by kstrong on Tue, Nov 12, 13 at 9:45

Thanks Kathy. I'll give it a try with bidding on QUICKSILVER. But now that we've talked about it here, it'll probably be on everybody's wish list!

I do have a lot of roses that are on the brink of extinction. I started sending some to Cliff a few yrs ago for him to propagate, but then he had to close up. One was JEAN DU TILLEUX, which a customer of his had asked for. He obviously was able to get it going, because Heirloom now has it. Yeah, I really should go thru my list and see what needs to get out there. If you would like to have some budwood, and can get them going, I'd be happy to send some cuttings out. I might also try the burrito method of starting them myself too. I've been experimenting with doing the florist roses that way, and it seems to work so far. I just have to get the potting-up part perfected. Need to get grow lights I think.

Quicksilver has been a good rose for me also. Even comes through winters fine. Yep, everybody bid on this rose and leave the roses I want alone!

The spirit of what Kathy says about Quicksilver is pretty much correct. However, the last plant that we knew of was at Weeks not J&P. Tom Carruth had saved it for breeding because of it's great genetics: Jack Christensen had crossed Blue Nile x Brandy. When I found out that Tom had this rose, he generously offered to bud up 10 plants. The plant in the auction is from one of these original 10. Truly a rose worth saving (apologies to Beth if this encourages more bidding).

Here is a link that might be useful: Quicksilver photos

Well, NSD John -- then there were in fact two of them, J & P did have one when I was there a few years back, and they were, I think, using it in the "blue rose" quest.

I believe that the rose they were using was Lavande. Debbie Zary gave me a cutting, which I rooted.

LaVande is the one they ended up injecting with something that was essentially defeated by pH problems, but they also had that Quicksilver sitting there, and I think they were trying to do more conventional breeding things with it. Ask Keith -- tomorrow -- how convenient.

Well, that's a bummer. I forgot about this and missed entering a bid! LOL Oh well. Maybe next yr!

Ya know, LAVANDE is a wonderful rose too. It blows pretty fast, but it's still a beautiful bloom even so.

Do we have any auction results?

Yep We had over a hundred internet bids. Thank you to all of you who sent us bids. That was our best internet showing EVER! And, Elvis showed up to auction off Graceland.

I don't have all the details yet, but I know Simsalabim went as a bargain this year, compared with years passed. That one was around $75, if I recall correctly. Highest price roses were Anvil Sparks and Blue Bell (see, ya just never know!), both of which were in the silent auction.

Aw man, I was going to bid on GRACELAND too. And BLUE BELL. Well, next yr I'll have to watch the deadline date better. LOL Geez, I got ANVIL SPARKS from Berling. Was that one blooming and looking really good or something? I mean it's not as hard to get as the others.

Did you guys sell everything?

I won 7 out of 13. The next year, I will put the stakes are higher.

Simsalabim!!!!

I would have to be paid huge amounts of money to grow that horror....and even then, it would be hidden behind the garbage bins.
Are stripey roses going through some sort of revival in the US? There are usually a few about in the UK but nothing like the ones across the Atlantic?

There really is no accounting for taste, hey?

Simsalabim!!!!

I would have to be paid huge amounts of money to grow that horror....and even then, it would be hidden behind the garbage bins.
Are stripey roses going through some sort of revival in the US? There are usually a few about in the UK but nothing like the ones across the Atlantic?

There really is no accounting for taste, hey?

I won all the ones I really wanted. Got Polo Club, Rainforest, Fascination, Magic Moon and San Diego. All except Polo Club were at bargain prices! Thanks Kathy!!!

Campanula, there are a LOT of people here who love the stripey roses! Those are my favorites, second only to the oddball colored ones. Thank goodness we all have different tastes!

Hey Mike, I thought you already got POLO CLUB? Hope you have better luck with yours. Mine is barely alive. Maybe I should dig it out and pot it up. It hasn't grown or done anything for yrs! My soil is horrible volcanic clay. Or maybe if I dumped a bunch of manure and mulch on it it might help. You'll love it tho. The few blooms I got off it a few yrs ago were spectacular!

Beth, out of almost 300 roses, every last one was sold. There were even 2 mystery roses from Rogue Valley that sold. Kathy bought one for about $3 and thinks it may be Bud Myers. I'm really glad that Mike got San Diego. It needs to be saved! BTW the Polo Club that we grew was very strong and surprised me by the large bloom that it put out. It really is amazing.

Beth, I noticed an outbreak of similarly coloured petunias appearing all over the UK (gold and maroon) which caused me to literally avert my eyes on walking past.
As a rule, I am a lover of bright colours (no beige in my house or wardrobe) but am strictly old school when it comes to roses - white or pink (or palest yellow at a pinch).
Course, that does not apply to the dahlia beds, nor the many rows of cutting gladioli or luridly coloured annuals (apart from said petunias) in my allotment. Particularly enjoying a combo of orange, purple, deep red and acid green.......just not in the roses.
And yeah, striped roses, not even pink and white, really do it for me but I was agog at the variety available in the US.

Hah -- This was the striped rose that got the most attention. The plant we had for sale was not blooming, so I took in a bloom off of my mother plant and just stuck it in a jar next to the plant. The bloom happened to be enormous.

Here is a link that might be useful: Anvil Sparks at HMF

'Anvil Sparks' is one of the weakest, death-prone underperformers I have ever tried (four times) to grow. I even custom budded it to help push growth (it worked to a degree) but none of the plants ever lived more than three seasons. Everyone wants it, but its the worst to propagate and extremely difficult to raise to adulthood. Good luck to those who try!

It's funny. I've gone thru about 5 plants of ANVIL SPARKS over the yrs. The first one was the best and I had it when we lived down the hill where it was warmer. The subsequent ones all either just died, or sat there at about 2" and never grew and then died. I got two new ones from Burling this spring, and they're both bigger than any of the previous plants. I'm hoping one of them will be ok and grow and produce some nice big fat blooms just like that one that Kathy showed! That's beautiful!!

I've sent Burling many cuttings of many roses over the years (and I gave her a new batch on Sunday when she came down to speak at our auction extravaganza). Don't know if she is propagating from my plant or not, but if she is, then you got a good one. My Anvil Sparks and I get along great for some reason and always have, although I have heard that others have had their problems.

The rose that I've lost and would really LOVE to find again was Sue Lawley. Anyone grow it?