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Buckaroo’ as pollen parent. In 1980 the introduction
of ‘Anna Ford’, a marriage between the Harkness
floribunda, ‘Southampton’ and the Meilland
‘Darling Flame’ proved to be a huge success.
Table 11.
Miniature Roses bred by the House of
Harkness
CULTIVAR COLOR YEAR PARENTAGE
‘Red Dot’ mr 1978 [(‘Marlena’ X ‘Kim’) X ‘Little Buckaroo’]
‘Esther's Baby’ (HARkinder) mp 1979 [(‘Vera Dalton’ X (‘Chanelle’ X
‘Piccadilly’)) X ‘Little Buckaroo’]
‘Anna Ford’ (HARpiccolo) ob 1980 [‘Southampton’ X ‘Darling Flame’]
‘John Bradshaw’ (HARquisp) dp 1985 [‘Seedling’ X ‘Esther's Baby’]
‘Crispin-Morwenna’ (HARkitten) or 1980 [(‘Vera Dalton’ X
(‘Chanelle’ X ‘Piccadilly’)) X ‘Little Buckaroo’]
‘Clarissa’ (HARprocrustes) ab 1982 [‘Southampton’ X ‘Darling Flame’]
‘Hollie Roffey’ (HARramin) mp 1985 [(‘Tip Top’ X (‘Manx Queen’ X
‘Golden Masterpiece’)) X ‘Darling Flame’]
‘Guiding Spirit’ (HARwolave) dp 1988 [(‘Blue Moon’ X ‘Seedling’)
X ‘Little Prince’]
‘Pallas’ (HARvestal) lp 1989 [‘Clarissa’ X ‘New Penny’]
‘Pandora’ (HARwinner) w 1989 [‘Clarissa’ X ‘Darling Flame’]
‘Phoebe’ (HARvander) lp 1989 [‘Clarissa’ X (‘Seedling’ X ‘Mozart’)]
‘Phoenix’ (HARvee) rb 1989 [‘Clarissa’ X (‘Wee Man’
X (‘Southampton’)]
Meanwhile on the North Island of New Zealand,
recent immigrant from Northern Ireland,
Sam McGredy best known for creating some of
the world’s favorite hybrid teas and floribundus,
had began to experiment in the breeding of
miniature roses. In 1973 McGredy introduced his first
cultivar, ‘Anytime’, a stunning attractive orange
single petaled variety born from a 1962 variety from
Ralph Moore in California called ‘New Penny’. This
clever and intuitive stroke of genius from McGredy
recognized the strong and desirable genetic
background of ‘New Penny’, that of a cross between
‘R. Wichurana’ and ‘Floradora’. Indeed
McGredy continue to use both Moore’s ‘New
Penny’ and his own ‘Anytime’ in his breeding
program. However, Ralph Moore in his wisdom had
detected a faint but noticeable purple halo around
the central stamens of ‘Anytime’, an observation that
eventually resulted in the development of the attractive
single petaled “halo” series from Moore such as
‘Halo Glory’, ‘Halo Sweetie’, ‘Halo Fire’, ‘Halo
Rainbow’, and ‘Halo Today’. McGredy was successful
in introducing stripes into the miniature
color ranges with varieties like ‘Little Artist’, ‘Roller
Coaster’, and ‘Hurdy Gurdy’.
‘Little Artist ‘
By Sam McGredy
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Table 12.
Miniature Roses bred by Sam McGredy
CULTIVAR COLOR YEAR PARENTAGE
‘Anytime’ op 1973 [‘New Penny’ X ‘Elizabeth
of Glamis’]
‘Tick-Tock’ ob 1973 [‘New Penny’ X ‘Elizabeth
of Glamis’]
‘Woman's Own’ mp 1973 [‘New Penny’ X
‘Tip-Top’]
‘Wee Man’ mr 1974 [‘Little Flirt’ X ‘Marlena’]
‘Royal Salute’ (MACros) mr 1976 [‘New Penny’ X
‘Marlena’]
‘Kaikoura’ (MACwalla) ob 1978 [‘Anytime’ X
‘Matangi’]
‘Ko's Yellow’ (MACkosyel) yb 1978 [(‘New Penny’ X
‘Banbridge’) X (‘Border Flame’ X ‘Manx Queen’)]
‘Moana’ (MACbipi) mp 1978 [‘Seedling’ X ‘New
Penny’]
‘Otago’ (MACnecta) or 1978 [‘Anytime’ X ‘Minuette’]
‘Takapuna’ (MACtenni) op 1978 [‘New Penny’ X
(‘(Clare Grammerstorf’ X ‘Cavalcade’) X ‘Elizabeth of
Glamis’)]
‘Waitmata’ (MACweemat) rb 1978 [‘Wee Man’ X
‘Matangi’]
‘Wanaka’ (MACinca) or 1978 [‘Anytime’ X
‘Trumpeter’]
‘Snow Carpet’ (MACcarpe) w 1980 [‘New Penny’ X
‘Temple Bells’]
‘Angelita’ (MACangel) w 1981 [‘Moana’ X ‘Snow
Carpet’]
‘Hi-de-hi’ (MACanat) mp 1981 [‘Anytime’ X
‘Gartendirektor Otto Linne’]
‘Dorola’ (MACshana) dy 1982 [‘Darling Flame’ X
‘New Day’]
‘Little Artist’ (MACmanley) rb 1982 [‘Eyepaint’ X
‘Ko's Yellow’]
‘Paragon’ (MACkosred) mr 1982 [‘Ko's Yellow’ X
‘Little Artist’]
‘Seaspray’ (MACnew) pb 1982 [‘Anytime’ X
‘Moana’]
‘Seaspray’ (MACnewing) pb 1982 [‘Anytime’ X
‘Moana’]
‘Academy’ (MACgutsy) pb 1983 [‘Anytime’ X
‘Matangi’]
‘Freegold’ (MACfreego) dy 1983 [‘Seaspray’ X ‘Dorola’]
‘MACspice’ (MACspice) m 1983 [‘Anytime’ X
‘Gartendirektor Otto Linne’]
‘MACspice’ (MACspike) m 1983 [‘Anytime’ X
‘Gartendirektor Otto Linne’]
‘Baby Sunrise’ (MACparlez) ab 1984 [‘Dorola’ X
‘Moana’]