It is hard to compete with Our Lord. In just seven days he created the whole universe including flowers, trees, mountains, animals and people.

Rosa Eskelund on Funen doing his best. But she must use half a dozen years to create one new rose! But it succeed.
Number 9

You have a history. Your neighbor has a history. Your bus driver has a history.

All people have a story, and those we would like to tell in the Extra Leaf.

In the series ’Number 9’ we take around in Denmark – in the big cities, small cities and small hamlets and knocking on the door of a random human being who lives in number 9, and ask them to tell an important story from their lives.

do you Live even in number 9? Or do you know a man who lives in number 9 – which has a history that deserves to be told? Write to us at nummer9@eb.dk

So you could say that Rosa Eskelund lives of going to God in the flower beds. Through the years she has created a variety of new roses, and each time, a new rose is presented, it means that Rosa has realized yet another dream.

Rosa Eskelunds garden with views of the sea does not look like immediately, a place where flowers-histo.e

from the Outside here in the small, beautiful street with down to Dyreborg Vig close to Faaborg is it impossible to imagine that there is a historical development of the roses in number 9. A beautiful house with lawn leading down to the inlet. A small greenhouse and a beautiful garden. But it doesn’t look like a nursery.

– No, For here is no production. Here is the solely development. But in the small greenhouse you can see a copy of each of the roses, over the years I have created. I’m rose-breeder. Not the manufacturer, explains Rosa.

a Little further down the street Rosa has, however, a larger greenhouse, where she is creating more the roses, which she can carry out the selection work, as the new roses are the product of.

– I select out from the beauty, scent, color and health, explains Rosa about his work.

– Every rose I create, is unique in the way that there are not any flower similar to. I will select the roses that must be used. I pollinate. I’m experimenting – in order to create a rose that looks like it, I imagine.

– the Fruit of a rose contains up to 50 pips. Those wounds I – and about 25 percent of the seeds germinate and grow up. Then I choose out to the further refinement process. I choose from beauty, fragrance, color, health. My roses must be compact and healthy.

The new roses, who finds grace in rosa’s critical gaze, she takes cuttings from those clones, she and opformerer, and so she takes the new roses with various blomstermesser around the world.

Here comes the professional gardeners and producers – and they can then buy the rights to produce the new roses. the

In the world there are five-six roseforædlere on rosa’s level.

– It has been hard work to get to this point. But together with my husband I have created a company that we can live by – and that we enjoy working in every day.

– We have sold patents to a half a hundred countries. One of our biggest markets is China.

rosa’s dream is to create a beautiful, sky blue rose. It has no refines yet failed to deliver.
Blue book

Rosa Eskelund, Dyreborg
59 years
Born in Kolding, denmark with a Danish father and a sicilian mother
Gartner specializing in roseforædling
Married with the Harley and the mother of Camilla and Anders

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the name of the Rose and significance

Rosa has created roses that have been named after famous danes.

Through the years, a number of well-known danes given its name to the rosa’s new roses – and its glories have gladly participated in ’infant baptism’.

Three times crown princess Mary of denmark christened one of the new roses.

This is the same has the royal. actress Ghita Nørby; one time even a rose dedicated to her, namely, ’Mrs. Nørby’.

Lise Nørgaard, the woman behind the ’Matador’, has got its own rose, ’Lise Nørgaaard rose’. It was dubbed during the festive framework at Dyrehavsbakken, north of Copenhagen, where there is a ’copy’ of Korsbæk.

There’s something very special about roses. Everyone knows roses. It is a flower, which follows the human life from the cradle to the grave, from the barselbuket of baptism, confirmation, wedding and funeral.

– And a small child like any other flower, and ask what it is. The child says: ’A flower’. Show the child a rose, and it is similar: ’It is a rose’. Roses are something special and I’m baptized Rosa. It is not something I have found since then, says Rosa with a smile.

do you Live even in number 9? Or do you know a man who lives in number 9 – which has a history that deserves to be told? Write to us at nummer9@eb.dk