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'Lemon Meringue ™' rose Description
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'Lemon Meringue ™ (shrub, Radler, 2003)' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Sarah
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
• WEKradler
HMF Ratings:
26 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Light yellow Shrub.
Registration name: WEKradler
Origin:
Discovered by William J. Radler (United States, 1998).
Introduced in United States by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Inc. in 2005.
Class:
Climber, Shrub.  
Bloom:
Lemon-yellow.  The stipitate glands of the buds bear a fragrance of sweet juniper..  Moderate, fruity, spice fragrance.  21 to 40 petals.  Average diameter 4.5".  Very large, very double, in small clusters bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Fragrant buds.  
Habit:
Tall, climbing, spreading.  Large, glossy, medium green foliage.  3 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: 8'2" to 12½' (250 to 380cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Can be used for cut flower, garden, hedge, pillar or shrub.  Remove spent blooms to encourage re-bloom.  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.  
Breeder's notes:
Spicy fragrance, vigorouse and clean. Tall, near climbing.
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 17,347  on  9 Jan 2007   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 11/252,502  on  17 Oct 2005
Inventors: Radler; William J. (Greenfield, WI)
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Climbing Rose. It was discovered in the summer of 1998 in Greenfield, Wis. as a mutation naturally occurring sport of the cultivar Autumn Sunset (not patented).
Parentage:
sport of Autumn Sunset (climber, Lowe 1986)
Notes: