This summer I was busy working to get my Master Gardeners cert along with working full time at a local nursery. With that excuse in mind, I will tell you I didn't get any really successful crosses again this year!  Excuse number three, The weather may not have helped either with the very warm spring that transformed into a mostly cool summer.   In fact, it felt like summer lasted for no more than a week this year.  Needless to say it didn't help ( excuse.... excuse) with hip production and I ended up losing the crosses I'd managed to make.   I only ended up with selfs this year so I will have to be mostly content with them.  I am crossing my fingers My mason bees were pollinating my roses along with the fruit trees, so theres a scant chance something was crossed!  I wont be too picky for now, but next year things will be different!  I did have a list of crosses I was going to make but I suppose it will have to roll over until next year!   Right now I am in the thick of collecting hips and dividing seed I thankfully a number of hips from my own yard decided to ripen up so there is at least a somewhat of a rose project going on an I'v collected a few from a local rose garden to up my chances in getting a range of crosses :)  I have also taken a number of cuttings of some mini's I haven't grown before, (these cuttings were given to me)  and a few super cute fuchsias.  I think Im will also try my hand at daylily seeds this winter. I purchased a few packet of seed from a hybridizer online..growing them out sounds fun though I hope I stay focused on them as it will take them quite a while before they produce a bloom.....oh well heres to gardening projects turning indoors.