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While the expansion of the number of miniature rose growers slowed down in the late 1980s in America, several new practitioners of the trade rose up to capture the imagination and creativity of their predecessors. In the mid 1990s in Nashville, Tennessee a relative young man made a great impact with his initial introduction, a deep red perfectly formed miniature called ‘Miss Flippins’ after his daughter. This variety took the exhibiting scene by storm and was soon winning on a regular basis at rose shows. Tucker had dared to use the elegant medium pink hybrid tea ‘Elizabeth Taylor’ as seed parent crossed with a Benardella masterpiece, ‘Kristin’. While his initial efforts may have been planned as casual experiments, Robbie Tucker caught the hybridizing bug! Soon he erected greenhouses and was in the mail order nursery business! He continues to introduce top grade varieties but has recently introduced some wonderful mini floras. Table 33. Miniature Roses bred by Robbie Tucker CULTIVAR COLOR YEAR PARENTAGE ‘Solar Flair’ (Solar Flair) rb 1996 [‘Rise 'n' Shine’ X ‘Captivation’] ‘Miss Flippins’ (TUCkflip) mr 1997 [‘Elizabeth Taylor’ X ‘Kristin’] ‘Little Tommy Tucker’ (TUCtommy)my 1998 [‘Rise 'n' Shine’ X ‘Captivation’] ‘Dancing Flame’ (TUCkflame) yb 2001 [‘Seedling’ X ‘Kristin’] ‘Sublime’ (TUCsublime) rb 2003 [‘Unnamed Seedling’ X ‘Dancing Flame’] Editor’s Note: See previous page for Robbie Tucker Minis Photograph courtesy of Rosemania 28 Another newcomer to breeding miniature roses was George Mander of British Columbia, Canada. George captured the attention of the miniature rose buying public both here in the US and in the UK with his stunning bicolor ‘Glowing Amber’ based on the fellow Canadian Laver introduction ‘June Laver’. Table 34. Miniature Roses bred by George Mander CULTIVAR COLOR YEAR PARENTAGE ‘Purple Sunset’ (MANpursun) m 1992 [‘Rise 'n' Shine’ X ‘MANpurple’] ‘Rubies 'n' Pearl’ (MANrupearl) m 1992 [‘Rise 'n' Shine’ X ‘MANpurple’] ‘Coral 'n' Gold’ (MANcoral) op 1995 [‘June Laver’ X ‘Rubies 'n' Pearls’] ‘Golden Beryl’ (MANberyl) yb 1995 [‘June Laver’ X ‘Rubies 'n' Pearls’] ‘Golden Topas’ (MANtopas) dy 1995 [‘June Laver’ X ‘Rubies 'n' Pearls’] ‘Amber Sunset’ (MANamsun) ob 1996 [‘June Laver’ X ‘Rubies 'n' Pearls’] ‘Glowing Amber’ (MANglow) rb 1996 [‘June Laver’ X ‘Rubies 'n' Pearls’] ‘Glowing Petals’ (MANpetals) op 1996 [‘June Laver’ X ‘Rubies 'n' Pearls’] ‘Haleakala’ (MANhale) m 1996 [‘Rubies 'n' Pearls’ X ‘June Laver’] ‘Orange Sunset’ (MANorsun) ob 1996 [‘June Laver’ X ‘Rubies 'n' Pearls’] ‘Amber Star’ (MANstar) ob 1999 [‘Glowing Amber sport’] Top: ‘Amber Star’ Bottom: ‘Glowing Amber’ The latest new-comer to the American amateurs is Mitchie Moe of Washington State. This demonstrative lady has entered the marketplace with a bang! Her introduction of the orange blend ‘Mighty Moe’, a seedling from Bennett’s ‘Luis Desamero’, has gained a great deal of respect from the public and she has developed a short list of strong contenders in a short space of time.
Table 34. Miniature Roses bred by Mitchie Moe CULTIVAR COLOR YEAR PARENTAGE ‘Alpha Moe’ (MOEalpha) ob 1998 [‘Pink Petticoat’ X ‘Seedling’] ‘MOEjo-netsu’ (MOEjo-netsu) dp 1998 [‘Klima’ X ‘Seedling mauve’)] ‘Mighty Moe’ (MOEmighty) ob 1999 [‘Luis Desamero’ X ‘seedling’] ‘MOEanne’ (MOEanne) r 1999 [‘Fairhope’ X ‘Wistful’] ‘MOEmarilyn’ (MOEmarilyn) ab 1999 [‘Sheri Anne’ X ‘Wistful’] ‘Becky Adams’ (MOEbecky) m 2001 [‘Fairhope’ X ‘Wistful’] ‘Crescent Moon’ (MOEcrescent) my 2001 [‘Klima’ X ‘Blue Peter’] ‘Jo’ (MOEjo) op 2001 [‘Violet Mist’ X ‘mixed yellow pollen’] ‘Ralph T’ (MOEralph) my 2001 [‘Klima’ X ‘Blue Peter’] ‘Ichiro’ (MOEichiro) mr 2002 [‘Anne Hering’ X ‘Miss Flippins’] ‘Moonlight Dreamer’ (MOEmoondream)m 2002 [‘Anne Hering’ X ‘MIss Flippins’] ‘Baldo’ (MOEbaldo) yb 2003 [‘Hot Tamale’ X ‘Elegant Beauty’] ‘Smoking Gun’ (MOEsmoke) m 2003 [‘Vista’ X ‘Anne Hering’] Editor’s Note: See the article following for more information and photographic images on Mitchie Moe’s miniatures. Towards the end of the 20 century, the latest successful amateur to arrive on the miniature rose breeding scene is Jim Sproul of Bakersfield, California. In the short span of time he has been in operation Jim has introduced 2 AOE winners, a striped climbing miniature ‘Life Lines’, and a dusky deep red ‘This is The Day’. He is certainly a bright light on the immediate horizon. Table 36. Miniature Roses bred by Jim Sproul CULTIVAR COLOR YEAR PARENTAGE ‘Crimson Promise’ (SPRingpromise)dr 1994 [‘Avandel’ X ‘Chrysler Imperial’] ‘Full Moon’ (SPRingmoon) ly 1994 [‘Avandel’ X ‘Olympiad’] ‘Baby Claire’ pb 2001 [‘’] ‘Rose Country’ lp 2001 [‘’] ‘Grace Amazing’ (SPRograce) my 2003 [‘Singin' in the Rain’ X ‘Fairhope’] ‘Lil' Rebel’ (SPRorebel) mr 2003 [‘Anytime'’ X ‘'Santa Claus'’] ‘Carolyn Elizabeth’ (SPRocarolyn)m 2004 [‘Chipmunk’ X ‘Stainless Steel’] ‘Heather Sproul’ (SPRoheather) mp 2004 [(‘Lynn Anderson’ X ‘Tournament of Roses’) X ‘Hot Tamale’] ‘Life Lines’ (SPRolife) or 2004 [‘Roller Coaster’ X ‘Hot Tamale’] 29 ‘This Is The Day’ (SPRoday) r 2004 [‘Chipmunk’ X ‘Michel Cholet’] ‘Lucky Lucy’ (MOElucky) m 2004 [‘Vista’ X ‘Elegant Beauty’] ‘Yellow Sunblaze 2004’ (MEIskaille)my 2004 [‘Meineyta’ X ‘Seedling’ X ‘SAVagood’] ‘Whoop De Doo’ (MOEwhoop) rb 2004 [‘Olympic Gold’ X ‘Finest Hour’] ‘Life Lines’ The Birth of a New Classification “The Mini Flora” By the end of the 1980s the tumultuous breeding activities occurring in the United States had revealed a preponderance to produce many new cultivars with blooms and foliage much larger than miniatures but smaller than floribundas. American rose breeders had previously disregarded such larger blooms as too big to sell as miniatures. In Europe the breeders created the description of “patio rose” under which to sell these cultivars to the public. One American hybridizer, Ben Williams of Silver Springs in Maryland, however, had previously patented the name “Miniflora” (US Plant Patent 4,360; Registered No. 1,061,468, March 15, 1977) to describe the growing characteristics of a unique cross between two seedlings, (‘Circus’ X ‘Sweet Repose’) as seed parent and (‘Little Darling’ X ‘Starina’) as the pollen parent. In that document Williams narrates the features as “low and compact habit of growth. It is best described as being a larger and stronger grower than the miniature rose and a smaller and more compact grower than the floribunda rose producing a small perfectly formed flower bud that opens to no more than one inch when fully open”. As early as 1982, in partnership with Star Roses of West Grove Pennsylvania, Williams proceeded to promote and market these wonderfully compact plants - an act largely ignored by the purists in the rose trade. The miniature rose exhibitors and breeders alike, recognizing these traits as perhaps a defined evolutionary step in the rose family, especially in light of their numbers turning up in breeding program across the country, decided to petition the ARS to establish a new classification to embrace these cultivars. Ben Williams was willing to relinquish the US Patent he held to the ARS to permit the use of the term “mini-flora” as the official class name. And so mini floras were accepted into the rose family tree! ********
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Page 3 and 4: The Miniature and Miniflora Rose Bu
Page 5 and 6: T he over 2,500 miniature rose cult
Page 7 and 8: medium pink buds opening to a clear
Page 9 and 10: Table 4. Miniature Roses by Dr. Mor
Page 11 and 12: Table 8. Miniature Roses bred by Ly
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Page 17 and 18: ‘LAVsno’ (LAVsno) w 1984 [‘Ic
Page 19 and 20: ‘Incognito’ by Dennis Bridges
Page 21 and 22: While all these amateurs were exper
Page 23 and 24: ‘Gizmo’ Miniatures by Tom Carru
Page 25 and 26: Table 30. Miniature Roses bred by C
Page 27: Frank Benardella Miniatures Robbie
Page 31 and 32: more of the typical miniature size.
Page 33 and 34: Miniature Creations of Mitchie Moe
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