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'Alfie' rose Description
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'Alfie' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Danty
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
44 favorite votes.  
Average rating: GOOD+.  
ARS:
Deep pink Miniature.
Registration name: POUlfi
Exhibition name: Alfi ™,  Alfie
Origin:
Bred by L. Pernille Olesen (Denmark, 1985). Bred by Mogens Nyegaard Olesen (Denmark, 1985).
Introduced in Denmark by Poulsen Roser A/S as 'Alfi'.
Introduced in Denmark by Poulsen Roser A/S as 'Alfi'.
Class:
Miniature.  
Bloom:
Deep pink.  None to mild fragrance.  40 to 45 petals.  Average diameter 1.25".  Small, semi-double (9-16 petals), cluster-flowered, in small clusters, high-centered to flat bloom form.  Prolific, continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season.  Long, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Short, compact, upright.  Medium green foliage.  

Height: 18" to 2' (45 to 60cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Can be used for beds and borders, container rose or garden.  Vigorous.  Requires spring freeze protection (see glossary - Spring freeze protection) .  Can be grown in the ground or in a container (container requires winter protection).  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 5,058  on  7 Jun 1983   VIEW USPTO PATENT

A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the Miniature Class is provided
which originated by crossing an unnamed and unpatented Miniature rose
seedling with the variety Harriet Poulsen (unpatented) of the Floribunda
Class. This new variety has a dwarf growth habit and abundantly forms
attractive bright fluorescent pink flowers which are semi-double and borne
in clusters. Plants of the new variety are particularly suited for growing
in planters or window boxes and also are well adapted to greenhouse
forcing.



Inventors:
Olesen; Mogens (Kvistgaard, DK), Olesen; Pernille (Kvistgaard, DK)
Assignee:

The Conard-Pyle Company
(West Grove,
PA)


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