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Griffith Buck (1915 – 28 March 1991) was a professor of horticulture who created over 80 named cultivars of the rose, all of which are capable of withstanding temperatures of -20°F and need no pesticides or fungicides to thrive. March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in leap years). ...
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The Latin words hortus (garden plant) and cultura (culture) together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants. ...
Species Between 100 and 150, see list A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. ...
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Buck's introduction to rose breeding took place when he was a high school student in Rockford, Illinois, where he began a correspondence with the Spanish rose breeder Pedro Dot. After teaching for a few years, he entered the US Army during World War II as a member of the 13th Airborne, serving as a teacher and as a paratrooper in the European Theater. Rockford is a mid sized city located on both banks of the Rock River in the far north of Illinois, and is often referred to as The Forest City. Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, USA; the city has 150,115 residents, while the metro area has...
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Returning to civilian life, he enrolled at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, receiving his BS degree in 1948, an MS in 1949, and a Ph.D. in 1953 in horticulture and microbiology. He then became a professor at the college. Iowa State University (ISU) is a public land-grant university located in Ames, Iowa. ...
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His breeding program was meant to address an ongoing issue: Wild rose species around the world were hardy and disease-free, but bloomed only once per year, and in a limited color range from white to pale pink. They were also quite large — sometimes 15 feet tall and equally wide. On the other hand, the Hybrid Tea roses developed during the 19th and 20th centuries flowered repeatedly on bushes of a manageable size, but were subject to a host of rose diseases and could not survive extremely cold temperatures. Buck's colleague Neils Hanson brought him cuttings of Rosa laxa Semipalatinsk from Siberia and Buck crossed these with a variety of other species and cultivars. The German rose breeder Wilhelm Kordes also contributed to his breeding stock. Buck described his program in a 1985 speech: "My normal procedure was to grow the seedlings in the greenhouse one year until they got big enough, and plant them out the second spring. The only attention they would get would be water and cultivation. I didn't spray for disease." His hybrids combined the best characteristics of both groups. Hybrid Tea is a Cultivar Group of roses, created by cross-breeding two different types of roses. ...
Siberian Federal District (darker red) and the broadest definition of Siberia (red) Udachnaya pipe Siberia (Russian: , Sibir; Tatar: ) is a vast region of Russia constituting almost all of Northern Asia. ...
Buck often named his roses after friends — usually in an indirect way — and also chose "names that were appropriate to all the corn belt rural pleasures", e.g., "Barn Dance", "Applejack", and "Prairie Sunrise". The cultivars "Spanish Rhapsody" and "Sevilliana" commemorate his partnership with Pedro Dot.
The commercial trade in his rose cultivars got off to a slow start, since the university had no marketing infrastructure. The cultivars gained momentum during the 1980s and 1990s, along with the ecological movement. Carefree Beauty was one of the first roses to receive Texas A&M's EarthKind designation. This rose is now grown at the Montreal Botanical Garden, Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania, the Chicago Botanic Garden, and the Australian National Botanic Gardens. The global ecology movement is one of several new social movements that emerged at the end of the sixties; as a values-driven social movement, it should be distinguished from the pre-existing science of ecology. ...
Texas A&M University at College Station Texas A&M University, often Texas A&M, A&M or TAMU for short, is one of the flagship universities of Texas, and is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. ...
Some weeping willows at the Montreal Botanical Garden The Jardin botanique de Montréal or Montreal Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec. ...
One of the premiere botanical gardens in the United States, Longwood Gardens consists of 1,050 acres (4. ...
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The Chicago Botanic Garden (385 acres) is a botanical garden located at 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois. ...
The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) are located in Canberra and are administered by the Australian Governments Department of the Environment and Heritage. ...
The largest collections of Buck roses are grown in the Griffith Buck Garden at Iowa State's Reiman Gardens. Other collections have been established at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and the Elko County Rose Garden in Elko, Nevada. "Buck roses" is a category used in the rose trade to indicate those roses that are cold-hardy and disease-free. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum (more than 1,000 acres) is a major horticultural garden and arboretum located about 4 miles west of Chanhassen, Minnesota at 3675 Arboretum Drive, Chaska, Minnesota. ...
Elko, Nevada Elko is a city in Elko County, Nevada, United States. ...
In 1997 the American Rose Society established the annual Griffith Buck Memorial Rose Trophy.
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