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'Watercolors Home Run ®' rose Description
'Watercolors Home Run ®' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Stan V (Bearrose54)
Availability:
Commercially available
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HMF Ratings:
5 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT.  
ARS:
Yellow blend.
Registration name: WEKsolcibarko
Exhibition name: Watercolors Home Run ®
Origin:
Bred by Tom Carruth (United States, before 2012).
Introduced in United States by Spring Hill Nurseries in 2015 as 'Watercolors Home Run'.
Class:
Shrub.  
Bloom:
Light yellow, blush shading, ages to pink .  5 to 8 petals.  Average diameter 3".  Medium, single (4-8 petals), in small clusters, cupped bloom form.  Prolific, blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:
Short, compact.  Glossy, dark green, leathery foliage.  3 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: 39" to 4'4" (100 to 130cm).  Width: 5'5" to 5'11" (165 to 180cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 4b and warmer.  Disease susceptibility: disease resistant, blackspot resistant.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 28,656  on  21 Nov 2017   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 14/757,109  on  19 Nov 2015
Inventors: Carruth; Thomas F. (Altadena, CA)
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Shrub Rose. It has a non-disseminated seedling of my creation as its seed parent with the following genetic origin {[Zorina×(Rosa soulieana×Europeana)]×Trumpeter}×[(Playboy×Olympiad)×Baby Love] and as its pollen parent the variety known as ‘RADcor’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 17,346)....branches used for the photograph came from 3 to 4 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Wasco, Calif. in the month of November.
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