Mike McCullough, USA, zone 9a-9b

Notes:  

NAME

HYBRIDIZER

CROSS AND FLOWER COLOR

Alfred Martin

Jack & Fleurette Evans

R. edgeworthii [ R. bullatum ] x Else Frye  Pink flowers

(Anah x IMS) x Fusilier

Maurie & Fran Sumner

Pink flowers

Bob Scott’s Maddenii Series Hybrid

Bob Scott

White Flowers are similar to R. maddenii.  The plant in Mr. McCullough’s Mother’s yard in Aptos, California, which was grown from a cutting of Bob Scott’s plant is growing in full sun.  

R. burmanicum x R. dalhousiae

Maurie & Fran Sumner

Yellow flowers.

California Gold

Paul Bowman

Else Frye x Eldorado    Fragrant, greenish yellow flowers with occasional pink markings on reverse.

R. ciliicaclyx x Fosterianum

Unknown, plant is located at Strybing, and is available at the Sonoma Horticultural Nursery

R. ciliicaclyx x Fosterianum         Pink and white flowers are similar to Else Frye.

Donatella

 

A relatively new Maddenii series hybrid with March blooming yellow flowers that are about the size of Lake Lorraine.  May be a deeper yellow than Lake Lorraine.  Has a slight fragrance.

R. edgeworthii x R. vietchianum

Maurie & Fran Sumner

R. edgeworthii x R. vietchianum    Plant brought to a California Chapter ARS meeting by Maurie & Fran Sumner and was a raffle plant.  White flowers.

Else Frye

Else Frye / Paul Bowman

Unknown, but likely to be R. edgeworthii x R. ciliicaclyx               Pink and white flowers

Heaven Scent

Howard Kerrigan

Fragrantissimum x R. burmanicum      Yellow flowers

Humboldt Sunrise

Dr. Richard Anderson

Else Frye x R. johnstoneanum    Naples yellow flowers with a darker flare.

My Lady

Maurie & Fran Sumner

Fosterianum selfed    White & pink flowers

My Lady x Rose Scott  82-838

Bob Stanley

My Lady x Rose Scott                Pink flowers

Mysterious Maddenii

Howard Kerrigan

Large, March - April blooming fragrant white flowers.

Owen Pearce

Maurie & Fran Sumner

Saffron Queen x R. burmanicum

Peter Schick

?

A R. yakushimanum hybrid with red flowers.

R. protistum x R. grande

Bob Scott

 

Rose Scott x Self 81HX11

Bob Stanley

Rose Scott x Self            Pink Flowers    

Reine Long

Paul Bowman

R. taronense x Else Frye.  Very fragrant, white streaked rose flowers with a large yellow blotch.

 

Saffron Prince

Maurie & Fran Sumner

(Saffron Queen x burmanicum Cox form).  Yellow

Scott’s Valentine

Bob Scott

[(R. johnstoneanum x R. cubittii UCBG Pink) x R. moupinense] x Rose Scott

Smiley

 

R. ciliicaclyx subseries hybrid with white and pink flowers

Valo

 

A ciliicaclyx subseries hybrid with pink flowers.

 

The Winner

Bill Moyles

A maddenii hybrid with large yellow flowers.  The foliage looks like it may have some R. dalhousiae or R. nuttallii in it

UCBG is the University of California Botanical Garden in Berkeley, California.  Several species have several plants.  Some species have more than one lot, since I collected a lot from a particular plant.

The Strybing Arboretum is now called the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum.

Monte Toyon is the 3 acre garden in Aptos created in the 1950s by Maurie & Fran Sumner.