On Sunday 5 June , a rosaceous baptism with a special chronicle guide station at Floriade Expo 2022 in Almere , the Netherlands . In the garden of the Culture Group Roses , a new red garden move up was make ' Rosa Matchis ' . This name refers to the base of the same name that check that patient with leukaemia and other serious profligate upset get the good potential conferrer for a stem cell transplant as quickly as possible .
Christening ceremony of the Rosa Matchis . From left to right : Patrick Wijnhoven , Alex Spek , Jaap Dijkman , Jaap Smit
A story with a happy endingChristening the pink wine was the express compliments of Patrick Wijnhoven , a former blood line Crab affected role . The rose agriculturist from Wanssum was diagnosed with leucaemia at the years of 28 . After several treatment , only one choice stay to heal him : a stem electric cell organ transplant . There was no matching giver in the family and so the search get . The fortune of detect a match vary per person but it is never easy : for some people the probability can be as gamey as 1 in 50,000 . finally the Matchis Foundation ground the compeer with an anonymous presenter abroad . Meanwhile 24 years ago Patrick was successfully transplanted with root word cells by an anon. bestower . This allowed him , after some meter , to get on with his life and he did . He married and had two children .
A emblematic red garden roseThere are few bestower than recipients in the Netherlands , ' pronounce Jaap Dijkman , conductor of the Stem Cell Donor Bank . And because Patrick Wijnhoven is thankful for the 2d hazard at life that he has been generate , he now makes it his mission to pull attention to the importance of having enough donors . And he does so in a very beautiful mode . With a red garden rose , grown by Jan Spek roses from Boskoop and selected together with Patrick . The colour is not a coincidence , but refers to the blood cancer he has been cured of . Part of the proceeds of the cut-rate sale of the rosiness will be donate to the Matchis fundament . Growing a new blush wine that is quick for sale takes years . In 2015 , this newfangled variety was created through a hybridization . But again , the probability of a dear solution is little and therefore C of G of crosses are made in the promise that there is one effective issue among them . The parallel is inescapable and the symbolism complete .
The garden rose can be picture at Floriade , where the rose was christened on Sunday 5 June in the garden of the Culture Group Roses . This naming observance was performed by Jaap Dijkman , director of the Stem Cell Donor Bank , Alex Spek of Jan Spek Rozen , Jaap Smit , a dendrologist ( tree expert ) of Floriade , and Patrick Wijnhoven himself . The reddened garden rose is available from rose nursery De Wilde , is desirable for plant in the reason or in a pot and flowers from June until far into the autumn .
root : Floriade
