This document provides descriptions of over 50 rose varieties, including their origins, characteristics, and breeding histories. It discusses hybrids between species roses from Asia (R. clinophylla, R. gigantea, R. roxburghii) and modern Hybrid Tea, Tea, and shrub roses. Many of the roses were bred by Sanjeev Gandhi and named to honor people involved in rose cultivation or discovery of species roses. The document traces the development of new strains like Patio Teas and a new type of large-flowered Hybrid Tea.

2. ‘PRIYATAMA’
(The Beloved)
One of the first Hybrid Teas
in the ‘hand painted’ range.

3. 'Magic East' called ‘Bodhisatva’ in India
Quite different from ‘Priyatama’ is this lotus form ‘hand
painted’ rose

4. Named for Dr Yuki Mikanagi, a Japanese rose expert. Growing in
the Sakura Rose Garden near Tokyo, Japan.
‘Blushing Yuki’

5. An unreleased seedling.
A different mix of colors is
also possible in
the ‘hand painted’ strain.
Here, orange and white.

6. A Hybrid Tea, growing in the Sakura Garden. The heritage
rose 'Gruss en Teplitz' is prominent in its parentage.
‘Vanamali’

7. Breeding with lilac roses
produces brownish tones
also.
‘Coffee Country’
This rose can look
different at different
times.

8. ‘Incense Indigo’
A very fragrant HT with the genes of ‘News’ in the background

9. One more unusual color. Again, very fragrant.
‘Twilight Tryst’

10. A new seedling
from
a cross with
'Rhapsody in Blue'

11. The start of the Patio Teas
a cross between ‘Mrs. B. R. Cant' and R. clinophylla
nicknamed 'Pink Pink’
Rosa clinophylla is the only tropical species rose.

12. The next stage
in the evolution of
the ‘Patio Teas’ from
'Reve d‘Or’ x ‘Pink Pink’
This is a dwarf plant not
more than 30cm tall;
but the flowers are nearly
Tea Rose size.

13. A different result from the same cross,
'Reve d’Or' x ‘Pink Pink’

14. The ‘Patio Tea’ arrives? A cross between an apricot Tea
and the 'Reve d'Or' line – again quite dwarf.

15. One more 'Patio Tea’, also 'Reve d'Or’ x ‘Pink Pink’

16. A different Patio Tea seedling
from a cross of the R. clinophylla line with an ancient China rose
from the Temple of the Ten Thousand Camellias, Lijiang, China.

17. ’Ganges Mist’
A semi climber derived from ‘Little Darling’ x (R.clinophylla x R.bracteata)
R. clinophylla grows on the islands in the river Ganges

18. A hybrid clinophylla shrub
from the famous white climber 'Silver Moon'
‘Silver Dawn’

19. An unreleased seedling
from the (clinophylla x bracteata) line nicknamed 'Landmont'

20. One more unnamed seedling from 'Mme Charles Sauvage'
in the (clinophylla x bracteata) line

21. A very fragrant shrub rose
from 'Landmont' x 'Ganges
Mist', released as 'Pat Henry' in
the U.S. and 'Narender' in India
Fully open bloom

22. R. gigantea crossed
with 'Reve d'Or’
produced this
vigorous climber with
very beautiful foliage.
‘Manipur
Magic’

23. From the same cross as ‘Manipur Magic’, another vigorous
climber with Hybrid Tea form flowers at bud stage.
This has been named in honor of the discoverer of the species R.
gigantea in Manipur, North East India.
‘Sir George Watt’

24. ‘Sir Henry
Collett’
Named in honor of the
discoverer of R. gigantea in the
Shan Hills, Burma (Myanmar) in
1882.

25. The first seedling in the high chromosome R. gigantea line.
'Carmosine' (H.T.) x R. gigantea.

26. ‘Evergreen
Gene’
again from 'Carmosine' x R.gigantea,
named for a good friend, Gene Waering,
who has done much to popularize
evergreen roses in the USA
A climber, the flowers
can reach nearly
15cm across

27. The Griffith Buck shrub rose 'Carefree Beauty’ crossed into the 'Carmosine'
x gigantea line. This is a vigorous shrub with HT form flowers, with,
surprisingly, wide adaptability for a R. gigantea hybrid.
‘Naga Belle’

28. A vermillion pillar rose from 'Brown Velvet'
crossed into my gigantea line – the gigantea species
used in my breeding was collected on Mount Sirohi, Manipur, India.
‘Sirohi Sunrise’

29. A different flower form on a shrub from 'Carefree Beauty'
crossed with 'Evergreen Gene'

30. A further development from 'Naga Belle'
a lilac pink HT with green undertones
from the cross 'Naga Belle’ x 'Winter Sunset' x 'Golden Threshold'

31. The future beckons !
An unnamed seedling in the same gigantea strain.

32. 'Faith Whittlesey' growing in her
namesake Ambassador
Whittlesey's Winter Haven,
Florida, USA Garden.
‘Faith Whittlesey’
Blush pink in cold weather,
a new Tea rose with ‘Echo’
and R.gigantea in the
parentage.

33. Another new Tea rose
’Garnet Crest’

34. A new Tea rose derived from the old Tea rose 'Safrano’
‘Krishna’s Peach’

35. A cross of 'Safrano‘ into my 'Manipur Magic', named in honor of the 6
talented Australian ladies who wrote the definitive book on Tea roses.
‘Aussie Sixer’

36. A new version of the 'Maman Cochet ' type of Tea rose from
'Reve d'Or' and a gigantea seedling.
‘Remembering Cochet’

37. ‘Dixie Beauty’
The apricot Tea rose
'Madame Falcot' and
R.gigantea are in the
parentage
This Tea rose is
called 'Deccan
Beauty' in India.

38. A Tea rose with extra large flowers and an intense tea
fragrance, named for a famous Buddhist monk of ancient times.
‘Padmasambhava’ (Lotus Born)

39. ‘Mrs. B. R Cant’ x R.
gigantea has produced
this elegant climber
A beautiful single
from the
R.clinophylla line

40. A mix of China, Tea and
gigantea led to this
climber.
'Amber Cloud'
a single rose from the
same cross that led to
'Manipur Magic’

41. Bright yellow with contrasting
brownish anthers, a cross between
the well known yellow climber
'Golden Showers' and 'Sirohi
Sunrise’
‘Golden
Threshold’
A single from 'Echo' x
R. gigantea crossed into
Alister Clark's pink shrub
rose 'Lady Mann’

42. The beginning of the new Hybrid Tea strain
--'Naga Belle' crossed into 'Lady Mann'
‘Alister’s Gift’

43. The next step towards
the new kind of Hybrid
Tea,
a sister seedling of 'Alister's Gift'
crossed with
the Tea rose 'Francis Dubreuil'.
Fully open stage→

44. A beautiful mutant or hybrid of the species originating from Japan
‘Laevigata rosea’

45. Laevigata rosea has
produced this
continuous flowering
rose from a cross with
a seedling of
‘Bonica’ x ‘Mrs.
B.R.Cant’
A cluster of the
same seedling

46. R. roxburghii hirtula,
showing tree form,
in the City of Sakura
Rose Garden.