• Roses are Red

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Average rating: EXCELLENT-.  

Red blend Shrub.
Registration name: Mornine
Exhibition name: Roses are Red

Bred by Ralph S. Moore (United States, 2005).
Introduced in United States by Sequoia Nursery, Moore Miniature Roses Historic Archive in 2005 as 'Roses are Red'.

Hybrid Hulthemia persica, Shrub.  

Red blend.  None / no fragrance.  4 to 11 petals.  Average diameter 3".  Large, single (4-8 petals), in small clusters bloom form.  Spring or summer flush with scattered later bloom.  

Tall, arching, spreading.  Medium, semi-glossy, medium green foliage.  

Height: up to 6' (up to 185cm).  

USDA zone 5b through 9b.  Can be used for exhibition, landscape, shrub or specimen.  Remove spent blooms to encourage re-bloom.  Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood..  Remove unproductive wood every third year or so.  

Repeat flowering hulthemia hybrid with large red flowers with a black/red eye. Tall arching shrub.

Triploid

Ploidy determined by David Zlesak.