'Sunny South' Rose

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'Sunny South' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Patricia Routley

Availability:

Commercially available

HMF Ratings:

14 favorite votes.
Average rating: GOOD+.

ARS:

Pink blend Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: Sunny South
Exhibition name: Sunny South

Origin:

Bred by Alister Clark (1864-1949) (Australia, 1917).
Introduced in Australia by Hazlewood Bros. Pty. Ltd. in before 1921 as 'Sunny South'.

Class:

Hybrid Tea.

Bloom:

Rose-pink, carmine-red shading. Pink, flushed with carmine on a yellow base. Strong fragrance. 15 to 20 petals. Large, single to semi-double, cupped-to-flat bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Habit:

Tall, few or no prickles/thorns, upright.

Height: 6'7" (200cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default). Can be used for cut flower, garden, hedge, landscape or shrub. Very vigorous. Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.

Patents:

Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).

Parentage:

Gustav Grünerwald × Betty Berkeley

Notes:

Proceeds from the sale of this rose were donated to the National Rose Society of Victoria.
'Sunny South' was an extremely popular hedge rose in Victoria. It dropped its [square-ish] petals cleanly, and set few hips.