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'Windermere' rose Description
'Windermere (shrub, Austin, 2007)' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Marina's Garden. Crawfordville, FL
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
• AUShomer
HMF Ratings:
52 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT-.  
ARS:
White, near white or white blend Shrub.
Registration name: AUShomer
Exhibition name: Windermere
Origin:
Bred by David C. H. Austin (1926-2018) (United Kingdom, 1997).
Introduced in United States by David Austin Roses Limited (USA) in 2007.
Class:
Shrub.   (Series: English Rose Collection)  
Bloom:
Cream, light yellow undertones.  Moderate, citrus, fruity fragrance.  80 to 85 petals.  Average diameter 3".  Medium, very full (41+ petals), in small clusters, cupped, old-fashioned, scalloped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Pointed, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Compact, well-branched.  Matte, medium green, leathery foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: up to 4'1" (up to 125cm).  Width: up to 30" (up to 75cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
Patents:
Australia - Patent No: AU4255P  on  25 May 2011
Application No: 2007/099  on  20 Mar 2007   VIEW PBR PATENT
‘unnamed seedling’ x ‘unnamed seedling’ in 1997. Best of the resulting seedlings were grafted onto Laxa root-stock outdoors in July 1998. From 1999 to 2002 the variety was multiplied. In 2002-2003 trialled in USA for a future commercialisation, In 2003 sent to Australia for trialling and commercialisation. Breeder: David Austin, UK.
First sold in USA February 2007
 
New Zealand - Patent No: 2909  on  2 Jun 2010
Application No: ROS938  on  5 Mar 2008
 
United States - Patent No: PP 18,713  on  8 Apr 2008   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 11/635,856  on  8 Dec 2006
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of a shrub rose plant named `AUShomer` which was originated by me by crossing an unnamed, unpatented seedling with an unnamed, unpatented seedling....
Observations made from plants commencing at one year of age grown in a garden environment at Bowling Green Lane, Albrighton, England.
Parentage:
Unnamed Seedling × Unnamed Seedling
Notes: