Alright, let’s talk about this ‘Daniela Rose’ thing I got into recently. It wasn’t some big project, more like a personal mission, you could say. It started quite simply, really. I was looking through some old gardening notes, trying to find something a bit different for a corner patch in the backyard.
I stumbled upon this name, ‘Daniela Rose’. Sounded nice, right? Thought I’d try and find one. Seemed easy enough at first. How hard could it be to find a rose?
My First Steps
Well, harder than I thought. First stop, the usual big garden centers around town. Walked up and down the aisles, peered at labels. Asked a couple of the staff. Most just gave me that blank look, like I’d asked for moon rocks. No ‘Daniela Rose’ anywhere.
Okay, plan B. Went online. Fired up the computer and started searching. Typed in ‘Daniela Rose’, ‘Daniela Rose plant’, ‘buy Daniela Rose’. You know the drill. Got loads of pictures, florist shops with roses named Daniela maybe, but not the actual bush, the specific variety I was imagining.
Digging Deeper
This got me a bit stubborn. I spent a few evenings going through forums, places where serious gardeners hang out online. Lots of talk about different types, soil ph, bugs… the usual stuff. I posted a question: “Anyone heard of a ‘Daniela Rose’ variety?”
Here’s what mostly happened:
- A few folks said the name sounded familiar but couldn’t place it.
- Someone suggested it might be an old, discontinued type.
- Another thought maybe it was a nickname or a regional thing.
Not much help, honestly. I even emailed a couple of specialist rose nurseries I found. Sent pictures I’d managed to scrape together online that might have been it. One replied eventually, saying they didn’t stock it and had no idea. The other didn’t even bother replying. Typical.
A Tiny Clue
I was almost ready to just stick a standard ‘Peace’ rose in the spot and call it a day. Then, I was browsing some really old digital archive of a local gardening club’s newsletter from ages ago. Pure luck. Tucked away in an article about local hybrids, there was a brief mention. Didn’t call it ‘Daniela Rose’, but the description matched what I pictured. It mentioned a local breeder, long since retired.
That was the thread I needed. Started searching for information on that breeder, not the rose name itself. Took some effort, like proper detective work almost. Found an old phone number in an ancient directory listing online.
The Outcome
Called the number, half expecting it to be disconnected. An elderly lady answered. Turned out to be the breeder’s daughter. We had a nice chat. She remembered her father working on roses like the one I described. She didn’t have any plants herself, said he stopped propagating years ago and most of his specific strains were probably lost or scattered among friends.
So, did I get the ‘Daniela Rose’? Nope. Not a sausage. It seems it was either never formally named that, or it was such a small batch thing that it faded away. A bit disappointing after all the digging.
But you know what? The whole process was kind of interesting. It’s a reminder that not everything is just a click away. Sometimes you gotta chase leads, talk to actual people, even if it leads to a dead end. The search itself was the journey this time, I guess. Still haven’t decided what to plant in that corner patch, though.