I am a writer and so began many aspects of roses just to find out what happens in that particular mode. I began hybridizing just to find out how things are done and what the results might be. I use any rose that takes my fancy - it can be a shrub, a climber, old rose, hybrid tea whatever. When I began to get some interesting seedlings I decided that it would be good to let the world see them. The result was an association with Justice Roses in Wilsonville, Oregon - and there are now about 30 of my roses on his list.
Evaluation is decided by nature.
As I have so few seedlings I keep as many as I can until nature discards them. I never knowingly kill a seedling. Those that obviously do not have a place in the scheme of things are taken to the hedgerows around my home here in Ireland and are planted there. Even now, years later, the stronger of these seedlings can be found blooming in many hedgerows. I say a silent prayer for it and hope it gets to a rose heaven.