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'RUIsteenka' rose Description
'Ravel (hybrid tea, Steenks 1994)' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Cliff's High Desert Garden Archival Dec, 2011 last updated 101812
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
Ravel
HMF Ratings:
10 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Deep pink Hybrid Tea.
Exhibition name: Ravel (hybrid tea, Steenks 1994)
Origin:
Discovered by J.E. Steenks (Netherlands, before 1992).
Introduced in Netherlands by De Ruiter's Nieuwe Rozen B.V. in 1994 as 'Ravel'.
Class:
Florists Rose, Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
Deep pink.  None to mild fragrance.  25 petals.  Average diameter 5".  Very large, double (17-25 petals), borne mostly solitary, high-centered bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Medium, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
3 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: 5'11" (180cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b and warmer.  Spring Pruning: Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood and cut back canes that cross. In warmer climates, cut back the remaining canes by about one-third. In colder areas, you'll probably find you'll have to prune a little more than that.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 8,632  on  8 Mar 1994   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 999605  on  31 Dec 1992
Inventor: J.E. Steenks (Baarlo, NL). Assignee: De Ruiter's Nieuwe Rozen B.V. (Hazerswoude, NL)... discovered as a natural whole plant mutation in a controlled planting of the variety known as RUIdriko (USPP007362)... dark pink flowers...
Notes:
28 December 1937, composer Maurice Ravel died in Paris.