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Michael Garhart 
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I haven't read through every thread, but I am wondering if anyone knows about whether Lullaby typically produces masses of hips in the fall? I usually prune mine down to size at some point in late summer after major flushes of bloom seem over. I did not have a chance to do that this year and have the most beautiful hips! I will post a photo.
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It's hip sterile. The only way to get anything from it is to pick out 1-5 grains of pollen per bloom and put it on something ridiculously fertile.
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It appears in the pix here to be prone to vegetative centers. I suppose that must affect fertility?
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Yes, as well as the scant amount of pollen it even possesses. I would rate it as a 98% sterile rose. 2% male fertility imo.
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The photo for 'True Kindness' on some sights is the same photo used for 'Lion King'. I don't know if they are really the same rose, but they could be.
plantaddicts.com/true-kindness-rose/
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I wonder if he used Blue Nile on his own Cloudland.
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Based on the code, pollen parent is Oh My!, which I think is best red Florrie out there now.
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And plausibly Grand Dame, considering the codename, form, and slightly larger bloom size.
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I think Milano Kolorscape is the best red flori out there, but it never picked up steam. After a few years, it will produce sprays like Lavaglut, but without the blackspot and insane prickles. Roughly the same size plant and similar trusses of blooms. Its dark red but not black-red. It takes about 3 years until it produces those consistently.
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Except the know nothings at Kordes registered Milano as a shrub, not a florrie. So that means it competes with a whole separate set. Does it bloom enough? I tend to see only two good bloom cycles per year on my Kordes group, versus four or more with Weeks and Star good varieties. I suspect Kordes prioritizes disease resistance over bloomiferousness. I would rather have the blooms.
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Yikes. Listed flori online, but I no longer own those ars combined manuals. That's so sad. It has the exact same architecture as Princess of Wales.
Yikes, found it... www.modernroses.org/details.php?cultivar=2039
Depressing.
Milano is an everbloomer. It's not one of their giants. It is healthy, but should not be in the Kolorscape group. It's just a little flori guy.
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