Newsletter  (2020)  Page(s) Fall issue, p. 7.  Includes photo(s).
 
In the mid-1990’s, while working on an experiment on rose germination he used the ‘Angel Wings’ seeds in the experiment and by spring planted out more than 80 plants. About five plants survived multiple years of extreme Wisconsin winters without protection and these five polyantha roses became the foundation of his future work with polyantha roses. The three new introductions area: • Pretty Polly™ Pink (‘ZLEpolone’) has bright rich pink blooms formed in loose clusters on a mounded to spreading growth habit. The semi-glossy foliage contrasts nicely with the blooms. This rose won a silver certificate at the Monaco International Rose Trials, which is a unique trial in that the cultivars are planted in containers. It also recently won a silver medal in the rose trial at Nyon, Switzerland.