Breeding Awards Our roses and clematis win several awards every year for their beauty, fragrance and hardiness. Novelties If you are a breeder or broker and want to see our latest introductions, please log in (top right). If you do not log in, you will only be able to view the varieties that are already on sale in retail outlets. Find the right plant Find the rose or clematis that exactly matches the colour, height and look you have in mind for a specific loaction. Only few are suited Every year, 100,000 rose seeds and 20,000 clematis seeds are sown. This results in 80,000 completely new and unique rose plants and 20 clematis plants – all genetically different. Only about 20 of them, equivalent to 0.2 per thousand, will pass our strict selection process and be launched as varieties in garden centres and other retail outlets. The rest are discarded during numerous tests in several climate zones all over the world. During the tests, our roses are examined for health and hardiness. But also for whether they are capable of forming part of modern rose and clematis production and still withstand transport from the breeder and cope with life on the shelves of garden centres and retail outlets. |