'Royal Dream ™' Rose

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'Royal Dream ™' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Johno

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• KORmeeram

HMF Ratings:

13 favorite votes.

ARS:

Deep pink Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: KORmeeram

Origin:

Discovered by Andreas J. Weerdenburg (Netherlands, before 1995).
Introduced in Germany by W. Kordes' Söhne (Wholesale) in 1996.

Class:

Floribunda, Florists Rose, Hybrid Tea.

Bloom:

Deep pink. Mild fragrance. 25 to 30 petals. Average diameter 3.75". Medium to large, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, high-centered bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Medium, long, pointed, ovoid buds.

Habit:

Upright, well-branched. Large, leathery foliage. 5 leaflets.

Height: 5½' (165cm). Width: 42" (105cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 6b and warmer. Can be used for cut flower.

Patents:

Australia - Patent No: AU2762P on 25 May 2005
Application No: 1999/200 on 12 Jul 1999 VIEW PBR PATENT

Spontaneous mutation: parent ‘Kormiller’ syn ‘Dream’ (1996/076). ...Breeder: ‘Kormeeram’: A.J.v. Weerdenburg Amstelveen, The Netherlands.
First overseas sale The Netherlands May 1996.

Canada - Application No: 98-1384 on 6 May 1998

Application withdrawn on April 19, 2004.
Breeder: Wilhelm Kordes, Sparrieshoop, Germany

France - Patent on 1998

Patent surrendered

Germany - Patent on 1996

Netherlands - Patent on 1995

Patent surrendered

United States - Patent No: PP 11,353 on 18 Apr 2000 VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 09/138,831 on 24 Aug 1998

Inventor: Andreas J. Weerdenburg (Amstelveen, NL) Jan 1997; Hette Spek (Boskoop, NL). Assignee: Bear Creek Gardens, Inc. (Medford, OR)... A Floribunda having a dark pink flower color; high flower production; excellent vase life; good shipping qualities; and very vigorous growth habit... discovered as a single branch spontaneous flower color mutation on a rose plant of the variety of KORmiller growing in a greenhouse in Amstelveen, Holland, which bore a dark pink flower as compared to the pastel pink flowers of KORmiller. KORmeeram differs from its parent principally in flower color and in the color spot at the base of the petals...

Parentage:

sport of KORmiller

Notes:

Treloar Roses says Royal Dream is another sport of 'Dream'. The two roses are identical in every way except for color... 'Royal Dream' is a strong pink...