News and Information about the programs at FPS
- Author: Olivia Pisano
Published on: April 17, 2013
Star Roses
About a month ago I announced the 6th annual Rose Day and its new format.
Held in collaboration with the California Center for Urban Horticulture (CCUH), this year's rose day is truly an 'Eyeconic' weekend complete with talks on rose maintenance, tours of the Foundation Plant Services rose collection, and a plant sale on both Saturday and Sunday, May 4th and 5th, 10 am -...
- Author: Olivia Pisano
Published on: March 20, 2013
A view of the FPS Rose Collection from the Google Satellites
If you’ve ever been driving along the north side of Putah Creek in West Davis during late spring/early summer, you’ve probably noticed a spectacle of vibrant colors just off the road behind a research fence. Those beautiful colors belong to the roses in the FPS Rose Clean Stock Program.
The story of the Rose Clean Stock Program starts back in the 1960s with Dr. George Nyland, a plant pathologist and advocate of virus-tested planting stock. He began using heat therapy to propagate rose material free of rose mosaic disease and created a collection of...
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