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'Red Cheerful' rose Description
'Red Cheerful' rose photo
Photo courtesy of jedmar
HMF Ratings:
3 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Dark red Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: Red Cheerful
Origin:
Discovered by Harris H. Blixen (United States, before 1951).
Introduced in United States by Woodlawn Gardens, Inc. in before 1956 as 'Red Cheerful'.
Class:
Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
Dark red.  Moderate, rose fragrance.  30 to 40 petals.  Average diameter 4.5".  Large, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, high-centered bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Pointed buds.  
Habit:
Upright.  Glossy, leathery foliage.  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 1,556  on  22 Jan 1957   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 571,110  on  12 Mar 1956
Harris H. Blixen, Edwardsville, Ill., assignor to Woodlawn gardens, Inc., Edwardsville, Ill.
...discovered by me in October, 1951, at my greenhouse at Edwardsville, Illinois, and originated as a sport of "Better Times"...
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