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The results of this ambitious program have forever changed northern rose gardens. Svejda also used several repeat blooming and compact Rosa rugosa varieties such as 'Fru Dagmar Hastrup' and 'Schneezwerg'. This rose was a relatively hardy pillar rose with long, vigorous shoots and exceedingly healthy foliage. A key component in this program was a new hybrid, Rosa kordessii, developed by the firm of Kordes in Germany.
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Her objective was to use roses from these earlier efforts and cross them with newly developed roses from Europe to create a series of roses that would be hardy, disease resistant, repeat blooming and easy to propagate from cuttings. In this tradition, Agriculture Canada began a rose breeding program in the 1960s under the direction of breeder Felicitas Svejda. Many of these had good form and bloomed far longer than earlier hardy roses. Using hardy rose species crossed with the best garden roses, they created varieties that were much hardier than any that had been produced previously. Some of the most important of these pioneers were people like Frank Skinner from Manitoba, Percy Wright from Saskatchewan, Georges Bugnet, Robert Simonet and John Wallace from Alberta, and doctors Isabella Preston, Henry Marshall and William Saunders from the Department of Agriculture.
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Since the turn of the century, both amateur and professional rose breeders have been pushing the limits of roses further north. These roses have come out of breeding programs in Europe, the United States (U.S.) and Scandinavia, but the most important of all have been developed in our own backyard.
We no longer need to be envious or angry for we now have at our disposal a veritable cornucopia of roses that are hardy, easy to grow, beautifully formed and disease resistant to boot. In the past, cold country gardeners have looked at pictures of English cottage gardens with their doorways draped in riotous climbing roses with a mixture of envy and repressed anger. The last two decades have been a tremendously exciting time for the northern rose grower. By Bob Osborne, Corn Hill Nursery, Petitcodiac, NB