Rose breeder   Listing last updated on 23 Apr 2024.

Bad Nauheim-Steinfurth, Hesse
Germany

See nurseries: "Rosenschule Ruf".

Werner Ruf tells: Actually, we are not rose breeders, but my father loves jam from rose hips. My mother promised to prepare this for him, if he would take the seeds out. The terrible thing was that he sowed all and we had 1200 seedlings of hybrid rugosa, all with unknown father!
Then it grabbed me, and I started to select: the 50 most pretty were planted as a mixed hedge at our horse corral, where they now form a dense hedge after 4 years. I then named the 8 most interesting ones, the first, Wild Emmy, was a customer wish, thereafter the series was named in the same manner.