A Martin Frobisher Rose

This is a Martin Frobisher rose, one of the Explorer series of hybrids developed by Dr. Felicitas Svejda at the Experimental Farm in Ottawa. The video focuses on a single bloom that&about a day old, and shows the same bloom the following day. Three days after that, it was completely dead and shrivelled, but that isn&shown. Because I was in so close, the rose looks bigger than it is. The leaves are barely an inch long, and the bud rose is only about an inch across. The fully-open rose is a little over two inches wide. Although the Frobisher is a very fragrant rose and very close to the original wild stock (I presume), it does not attract very many bees or insects. Certainly nowhere near as many as its sister plant, the lower, bushier, red Champlain rose to the immediate left. That rose attracts several different kinds of bees and insects, and is swamped by them when in bloom (it&featured in my buzzing bumblebee video). The Frobisher seems to draw only an occasional rather bored or confused solo bee. At first I thought this was because the Frobisher is quite spindly and doesn&have very many blooms. But while filming insects on our completely native plants out front, I noticed that different plants draw very specific sets of insects. For example, we have an Ironweed that attracts a particular kind of gray and white bee I&never noticed before; that bee ignores the cone flowers and Black-eyed Susans which attract other types of bee (I will eventually post videos of these other...