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'Scented Memory' rose Description
'Scented Memory' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Dianne's Southwest Idaho Rose Garden
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Commercially available
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ARS:
Apricot or apricot blend Hybrid Tea.
Exhibition name: Scented Memory
Origin:
Bred by L. Pernille Olesen (Denmark, 1993). Bred by Mogens Nyegaard Olesen (Denmark, 1993).
Introduced in Denmark by Poulsen Roser A/S in 2005 as 'Scented Memory'.
Class:
Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
Light apricot, light yellow edges, white outer petals.  Moderate, rose fragrance.  40 petals.  Average diameter 5".  Very large, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, cupped, high-centered to cupped, reflexed bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Pointed, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Medium, bushy, upright.  Large, glossy, dark green foliage.  5 leaflets.  

Height: 3' to 5' (90 to 150cm).  Width: up to 2' (up to 60cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 5b and warmer.  Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, cut flower or garden.  Heat tolerant.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 16,402  on  4 Apr 2006   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 10/813,546  on  29 Mar 2004
Inventors: Olesen; L. Pernille (Fredensborg, DK), Olesen; Mogens N. (Fredensborg, DK)
The present invention constitutes a new and distinct variety of garden rose plant which originated from a controlled crossing between the female seed parent `POULduce`, originally described and illustrated in U.S. Plant patent application Ser. No. 09/277,239 dated March 26, now abandoned, and the male pollen parent, an un-named seedling. The two parents were crossed during the summer of 1993 and the resulting seeds were planted in a controlled environment in Fredensborg, Denmark.
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