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'Yellow Brick Road' rose Description 
  
  
  
  Photo courtesy of Michael Garhart
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EXCELLENT-.
 
Bloom: Yellow.  Deep yellow with lighter outer petals aging to buttercream.  Strong, rose, violets fragrance.  up to 38 petals.  Average diameter 2.25".  Medium, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, old-fashioned, rounded bloom form.  Prolific, blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Ovoid buds.   
Habit: Medium, bushy, compact, rounded, upright.  Medium, glossy, medium green foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  
 Height: 2' to 4' (60 to 120cm).  Width: 2' to 4' (60 to 120cm).
 
Growing: USDA zone 4b through 9b.  Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, cut flower, garden, ground cover or hedge.  Hardy.  Disease susceptibility: disease resistant, very blackspot resistant..  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.  Needs little care; relatively disease-free and quite hardy.   
Patents: United States - Patent No: PP 19,046  on  22 Jul 2008   VIEW USPTO PATENT Application No: 11/809,232  on  31 May 2007 The new variety of shrub rose, `BAIload`, designated as seedling No 97RMX1 was selected among seedlings derived from a cross made in Yamhill, Oreg. in 1991 [should be 1997] between the female parent, `RADsun` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,063) and the male parent, an unnamed intermediate seedling derived from a cross between `RADsun` as the female parent and `Noason` (not patented) as the male parent. `BAIload` was selected as unique and budded onto understock in August 1998 and reselected by the inventors for its distinct characteristics in 2001. |