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'Autumn Colours ™' rose Description
Photo courtesy of Cliff's High Desert Garden Archival Dec, 2011 last updated 101812
ARS:
Apricot or apricot blend Floribunda.
Bloom:
Apricot. None to mild, fruity, unpleasant fragrance. 55 to 60 petals. Average diameter 2.75". Medium, very full (41+ petals), cluster-flowered, in small clusters, high-centered to cupped bloom form. Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season. Pointed, ovoid buds.
Habit:
Medium, bushy, upright. Medium, semi-glossy, medium green foliage. 7 leaflets.
Height: up to 4'11" (up to 150cm). Width: up to 39" (up to 100cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 5b and warmer. Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, cut flower, garden or hedge.
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 16,552 on 16 May 2006 VIEW USPTO PATENTApplication No: 11/002,753 on 1 Dec 2004 Inventors: Olesen; Mogens (Fredensborg, DK)
The present invention constitutes a new and distinct variety of garden rose plant, of the floribunda rose class, that originated from a controlled crossing between the female seed parent `Poulsiana`, described and illustrated in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 11,638 issued Nov. 21, 2000, and the male pollen parent, an unnamed seedling. The two parents were crossed during the summer of 1997
Notes:
Internal breeder code: 98-8258-12. No. 007 in the 2004 Monza Competition. (Source: Website Roseto Niso Fumagalli.) Website states breeder code as POUlyc008, which is the climber 'Zorba' - see.
From the Hortico web site: "Old-gold and apricot tones; double small blooms; bushy shrub with dark green shiny foliage (Poulsen 2004) "
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