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'Wekyoopedko' rose Description
'Take It Easy™' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Munsinger & Clemens Gardens-Virginia Clemens Rose Garden
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
3 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Red blend Shrub.
Registration name: Wekyoopedko
Exhibition name: Take It Easy™
Origin:
Bred by Christian Bédard (United States, before 2011).
Introduced in United States by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Inc. in before 2014 as 'Take It Easy'.
Introduced in Australia by Swane's Nursery/Swane Bros Pty Ltd in 2020 as 'Take It Easy'.
Class:
Shrub.  
Bloom:
Dark red, light pink reverse.  Mild, tea fragrance.  15 to 25 petals.  Average diameter 2.75".  Medium, cluster-flowered, cupped, high-centered to cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Glandular sepals, leafy sepals, pointed buds.  
Habit:
Medium, armed with thorns / prickles, bushy, upright.  Glossy, dark green, leathery foliage.  5 leaflets.  

Height: 43" to 4'8" (110 to 140cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6a and warmer.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 26,816  on  14 Jun 2016   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 14/121,989  on  12 Nov 2014
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Shrub Rose. It has as its seed parent the variety known as ‘WEKiscorou’ (not patented) and as its pollen parent the variety known as ‘RADtko’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 16,202)....The branches used for the photograph came from 3 to 4 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Wasco, Calif. in the month of October..... The new variety has an upright bushy medium height growing habit (about 110 to about 142 cm. in height)
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