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'Golden Wings' rose Description 
  
  
  
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ARS: Light yellow Shrub.Registration name: Golden Wings (shrub, Shepherd 1954)
 
Class: Hybrid Spinosissima, Shrub.   
Bloom: Light yellow, orange-red stamens.  Mild, tea fragrance.  5 petals.  Average diameter 4.5".  Large, single (4-8 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, flat bloom form.  Spring or summer flush with scattered later bloom.  Large buds.   
Habit: Medium, armed with thorns / prickles, rounded, well-branched.  Light green foliage.  
 Height: 42" to 6'7" (105 to 200cm).  Width: 4' to 6' (120 to 185cm).
 
Growing: USDA zone 4b and warmer.  Heat tolerant.  shade tolerant.  Needs little care; relatively disease-free and quite hardy.  Prune dead wood.  Prune lightly or not at all.  Remove unproductive wood every third year or so.   
Patents: United States - Patent No: PP 1,419  on  13 Sep 1955   VIEW USPTO PATENT Application No: 433,320  on  28 May 1954 Roy E. Shepherd, Medina, Ohio, assignor to Edith C. Bosley, Mentor, Ohio.....My new variety is the result of a cross made by me at my nurseries in Medina, between the unpatented varieties Soeur Therese and R. spinosissima.
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