Ping Lim has posted a video with some of his roses.
Very nice. I’ll take all of them!
Who is Ping Lim?
Lynn says it well:
Roses by Ping
By Lynn Schafer – Rambling Roses June 2011
Ping Lim is a rosarian for the twenty-first century, with a background that spans continents and horticultural traditions. Raised in Laos and educated in Taiwan, Ping got his first American job in San Francisco. After years of study and training in every aspect of rose breeding, marketing and production, he became the Rose Research Director for Bailey Nurseries, leading an award winning Oregon-based rose breeding program.
Due to the positive charged of downturn in the economy, his plans changed. He decided to launch his own business, Roses by Ping. He works with Oregon Pride to continue to focus on producing beautiful, disease-resistant, easy care, fragrant roses. He also sells cut flowers through a partnership with a Portland warehouse, along with bare root stock. He also does consulting work, has speaking engagements and writes a column for the Portland China Times. Research to bring a rose to production status takes minimum of five years, but Lim thinks it’s worth every minute. When he’s working with roses, he said, he is stress free and feels like he’s on vacation. “I’m really lucky,” he said. “I hope to create something really beautiful for Oregon and the world,” he said.
In 2002 Bailey Nurseries introduced ‘Love and Peace’™, the result of work by Ping and his mentor, Jerry Twomey. The rose was a success, winning the prestigious All America Rose Selections award. In 2005, Ping Lim won the same award for ‘DayDream’™ and for ‘Rainbow Sorbet’ in 2006, in additional to the award of Northern Ireland, Japan and Belfast Rose competition and entitled 11 Portland Best Roses Awards since 2004. He has also produced Easy Elegance®, a line of twenty-five new, own root roses and 4 of 911 Roses, designed for modern gardens and gardeners. The hardy, floriferous shrubs combine vigor, disease resistance and hardiness with traditional rose virtues including beauty and fragrance. One of the Easy Elegance® roses, Macy’s Pride™, so impressed officials of the celebrated department store that they selected it to symbolize Macy’s centennial anniversary.
If that isn’t enough, he also has written Rose Village in China – TFM Taiwan, A Life with Roses – ARBA annual UK, and Selecting a Rose’s Parents for the Rose Hybridizers Association handbook here in the US.
Greg and I visited Carol last week and she graciously allowed us to pick some of her rugosa rose hips.
Rose hips take time and patience to clean, and when I was done I had two cups of cleaned, seeded rose hips. I hunted around the internet and found several interesting recipes, but one jumped out at me as the easiest and quickest, and one that I could make with the small amount of cleaned rose hips that I had. (It requires only 1 cup of cleaned, seeded rose hips.)
This is a no-cook recipe, the kind that is frequently referred to as freezer jam, because you store it in the freezer if you are not planning to eat it within 3 to 4 weeks.
The rose hip jam I made from this recipe has such a nice sweet/tart flavor and a lovely bright orange-pink color! The consistency is smooth and the flavor is fresh. I heartily recommend this quick and easy recipe. The only time-consuming part is seeding the hips. but you have to remove them. There is a sort of pithy part that comes out with the seeds. I read that the seeds and pith are what itching powder is made from, so you definitely want to remove them!
If you want to use a sugar substitute to make your jam be sure to purchase a pectin that is specially formulated for this. Sure-Jell makes a pectin for low-sugar or no-sugar recipes, in addition to the usual pectin for full sugar.
An additional note: The original recipe doesn’t mention it, but after you place the jam in the containers, you have to let it sit at room temperature for 24 hours to set. It may set more quickly than this. After it sets you can store it in the refrigerator, or freeze it as described.
Enjoy your rose hip jam, and come back to make a comment after you try out the recipe.
~Guinevere
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients
1 cup trimmed and seeded rose hips
3/4 cup water
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 cups sugar
1 (1.75 ounce) package powdered fruit pectin (I used Sure-Jell ~G.)
3/4 cup water
Directions
Put the prepared rose hips, water, and lemon juice in a blender; blend until smooth, about 15 seconds. Small bits of rose hips skin are okay. Gradually add the sugar while the blender is running. Blend until sugar is dissolved, about 30 seconds or so.
Stir the pectin into 3/4 cup water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil; boil hard for about 1 minute. Slowly pour into the rose hip mixture; blend for about 30 seconds.
Pour into small containers with lids. Store in the refrigerator. Jam that is not used within a few weeks can be stored in the freezer for up to a year.
Here’s a nice PDF article which covers the science behind adding used coffee grounds to your gardening. It covers how the grounds help with disease, growth, and more. There are also some thoughts on composting and mulching.
I bumped into a nice writeup of our club in The Examiner, by Laurie Brown.
Did you know that Spokane has its own rose society? There is one, and it’s active both locally and online. The objectives of the Spokane Rose Society are to share the love of roses, to educate people that roses are easy to grow in the Inland Northwest, to provide free basic rose care information and share the knowledge of their Consulting Rosarians, to invite neighbors to come together and discuss roses and companion plants, and to provide activities that benefit the community.
Anyway, here’s a video of Phyllis Stevens talking about preparing your roses for the winter. She covers pruning, a bit about diseased leaves, and mounding.
Mounding is pretty much essential if you have grafted roses, not so important if they are on their own roots.
For you OGREs out there, Paul Zimmerman, master rose grower, has written a fine article describing exactly what an Old Garden Rose (OGR) is.
What is an Old Garden Rose? To history it is a rose being of a class in existence before the year 1867. Why 1867? Simple. This is the year a rose named “La France” was introduced. La France is considered to the be the first Hybrid Tea. It is the offspring of the Hybrid Perpetual “Madame Victor Verdier” with the Tea rose “Madame Bravy”. The hybridizer was Guillot and what marked La France as being different from other roses was the high centered blossom we associate with Hybrid Teas of today. The name Hybrid Tea in fact comes from a wedding of the classes of the parents of La France. A Hybrid Perpetual and a Tea rose.
Centifolia – Gros Choux de Hollande
Notice I use the words “class of roses” in existence before 1867. This means that even though say a particular Bourbon (a class of Old Garden Rose) was introduced after 1867 it’s still an Old Garden Rose. In fact it’s possible that an Old Garden Rose could be hybridized and introduced to the growing public today.
The Rose Show for 2011 was a great success. While we didn’t have as many roses as we’d hoped, we had a lot more than we feared, especially in the mini categories. We also had a bunch of really nice arrangements, which will be in another post.
Winners: The HMF links will take you to the specific rose on HelpMeFind.com.
November 13, 2011 
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