'Half Time' Rose

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'Half Time' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Beth's Northern CA Rose Garden

Availability:

Commercially available

HMF Ratings:

4 favorite votes.

ARS:

Red blend Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: Half Time

Origin:

Bred by O.L. Weeks (1912-2002) (United States, 1976).

Class:

Hybrid Tea.

Bloom:

Yellow, butter-yellow reverse, salmon-pink edges, ages to orange-red . Moderate, tea fragrance. 42 to 52 petals. Average diameter 4". Large, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, high-centered to cupped bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Leafy sepals buds.

Growing:

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).

Patents:

United States - Patent No: PP 4,007 on 4 Jan 1977 VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 05/671,273 on 29 Mar 1976
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea class, which was originated by me by crossing the rose variety known as "Sunrise-Sunset" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,244) which I have chosen to identify in my breeding records as No. 6651-12 with a rose variety known as "Peace" (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 591), the seedling No. 6651-12 being the seed parent and the pollen parent being the variety "Peace".

Parentage:

seed:	[ Fandango (hybrid tea, Swim, 1950) × Roundelay] × [ Happiness (Hybrid Tea. Meilland. 1949) × Tiffany (hybrid tea, Lindquist, 1953)]
pollen:	Peace (hybrid tea, Meilland 1935)

Notes:

US Patent states parentage as Sunset-Sunrise X Peace, 'Sunset-Sunrise' being Tiffany X (seedling X Happiness)