Is there a striped class in rose exhibition?

When you exhibit blooms, is there a striped class or do they all compete together?

I'm not into this whole showing thing but I am curious as to how it works and have a striped seedling I'd like to enter in the Launie rose show (see calender) in October.

'Papageno'... it's a wonderful rose here... You can use most thngs descended from 'Ferdinand Pichard'. 'Papageno' is a striped rose with 'Stars n Stripes' in its pedigree (which got its stripes from FP). I've often thought about going right back to FP but decided against it at this point. Instead I went for 'Honorine de Brabant' which, depsite not descending from FP, has also been shown to pass on stripes. I've got OP HdB seeds in the fridge now to test germinability. I can thoroughly recommend 'Papageno', however, as its seeds germinate like weeds after a relatively short period in the fridge, and the resulting seedlings showed an enormous amount of variation from non-striped single coloured roses (mostly hot pinks and reds) to bicolours, stripes and bicolour stripes. The rose I'd like to exhibit is a bicolour striped rose. It's white on the back of the petals and pinky/red striped on the top of the petals on an enormous flower of excellent form. It's an HT and I don't like most HT but when testing germinability of OP HT seeds I don't think you can expect much else This year I've crossed 'Papageno' with all kinds of things such as 'Tuscany Superb', the flower carpet roses, Abraham Darby, Comtesse de Labarthe, Lorraine Lee, Ebb Tide, Nahema, etc... I've got lots of seeds in the fridge from it now and am looking forward to the next few months as things start to germinate (already started.. got some very exciting babies up at the moment ). 'Papageno' strikes very easily from cuttings and grows well on its own roots. If you'd like some cuttings PM me and send me your address and I'll get you some out over the next week or so (I'll send you out a plant of my multiflora hybrid as well while I'm at it).

This is the seedling I was talking about... OP 'Papageno'. Can you believe this was its first flower!!!

Alas... it is scentless, nameless, and its future is uncertain... not even sure I'm going to keep it going The plant is strong enough... It's just I don't know if I can be bothered with it will keep it going for a few years, plant it in the ground, and forget it maybe and see if it turns out anywhere near as good as 'Papageno', which is one of my favourites here... great bush, very healthy... Not your average upright ugly HT.

dunno... is all Greek to me...

I'll leave the development of English style roses to others... my way lies with Teas/Noisettes/China/Wichurana/miniatures and work with species. My personal opinion is that, whilst beautiful, the majority of DA roses have limited appeal in an Australian context. To me it's kind of like trying to put a square peg in a round hole. I love the idea of putting Teas with DA roses to make Aussie Austins but not to make more of the same stuff we already have. The good thing about rose breeding is that we don't all have to have the same goals and this is what makes it such a rich thing. I love how you get that passionate and excited tone when you talk about the striped DA-style roses like you can visualise the finished product and almost smell it already... that's what drives us... we just each see a different thing... and I wish you all the very best of luck in chasing that dream down