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'Wild Thing' rose Description
Photo courtesy of Danish private garden
HMF Ratings:
17 favorite votes.
Average rating:
GOOD.
ARS:
Deep pink Shrub. Registration name: JACtooseExhibition name: Wild Thing
Class:
Shrub. (Series: Ultimate Rose ™ Collection)
Bloom:
Deep pink. Carmine buds, coral pink blooms. Mild, spice fragrance. 8 to 10 petals. Average diameter 3". Medium, single to semi-double, in small clusters, flat bloom form. Prolific, blooms in flushes throughout the season.
Habit:
Medium, arching, bushy, spreading, upright. Medium, glossy, dark green foliage. 5 to 7 leaflets.
Height: up to 42" (up to 105cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default). Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, garden or landscape. Vigorous. Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant, blackspot resistant. Remove spent blooms to encourage re-bloom. Spring Pruning: Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood and cut back canes that cross. In warmer climates, cut back the remaining canes by about one-third. In colder areas, you'll probably find you'll have to prune a little more than that.
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 19,131 on 19 Aug 2008 VIEW USPTO PATENTApplication No: 11/824,573 on 29 Jun 2007 Inventors: Zary; Keith W. (Thousand Oaks, CA)
...originated by me by crossing an unnamed red shrub rose plant (female parent, unpatented), parentage of female parent is `MACminmo` (PP 7319).times.unnamed seedling (not patented), with the variety `TANotax` (male parent, PP 11572).....Observations made from January 2006 in June 2007 from plants commencing at two to three years of age grown in a garden environmental at Somis, Calif.
Notes:
Chromosome count from David Zlesak. July 17 2009.
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