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'Yellow Romantica™' rose Description
'Lunar Mist ™' rose photo
Photo courtesy of marcir
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
69 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Light yellow Large-Flowered Climber.
Registration name: Meijacolet
Exhibition name: Lunar Mist ™
Origin:
Discovered by Alain Meilland (1940-....) (France, 1995).
Introduced in United States by ~~The Conard-Pyle Co. in 2002 as 'Lunar Mist'.
Introduced in United States by Conard-Pyle (Star Roses) in 2007 as 'Lunar Mist'.
Class:
Large-Flowered Climber.   (Series: Romantica ™)  
Bloom:
Light yellow, cream outer petals.  None to mild, pepper, spice fragrance.  up to 50 petals.  Average diameter 2.25".  Medium, very full (41+ petals), cluster-flowered, in small clusters, cupped, old-fashioned bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:
Tall, bushy, climbing, spreading.  Medium, semi-glossy, dark green foliage.  

Height: 8' to 10' (245 to 305cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 5b through 8b.  Can be used for cut flower or garden.  Hardy.  vigorous.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.  Protect tender new spring growth from hard freezes that may cause canker, die-back and death of the plant. .  Remove spent blooms to encourage re-bloom.  Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood..  Remove unproductive wood every third year or so.  
Patents:
Australia - Patent No: AU4449P  on  20 Aug 2012
Application No: 2003/075  on  10 Apr 2003   VIEW PBR PATENT
Spontaneous mutation: ‘Meiroupis’’. 3 vegetative generations were grown....Breeder: Alain Meilland in Le Cannet des Maures, France.
Notes:
According to the Rosarium im Doblhoffpark at Baden near Vienna 'Yellow Romantica' was bred in 1995.
No. 173 in the 2001 Monza Competition. (Source: Website Roseto Niso Fumagalli.)