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'Siskin Hit ®' rose Description 
  
  
  
  Photo courtesy of Jean Marion
HMF Ratings: 
41 favorite votes.  Average rating: 
EXCELLENT.
 
Bloom: Pink.  None to mild, apple fragrance.  25 to 40 petals.  Average diameter 1.5".  Very large, full (26-40 petals), cluster-flowered, in small clusters, quartered bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.   
Habit: Short, bushy, compact, few or no prickles/thorns, rounded.  Small, matte, medium green foliage.  
 Height: 10" to 18" (25 to 45cm).
 
Growing: USDA zone 6b and warmer.  Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, cut flower or garden.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.  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.  Requires spring freeze protection (see glossary - Spring freeze protection) .  Can be grown in the ground or in a container (container requires winter protection).   
Patents: United States - Patent No: PP 9,419  on  9 Jan 1996   VIEW USPTO PATENT Application No: 08/367,812  on  3 Jan 1995 
Notes: Michael at Michael's Premier Roses says this is the first miniature to look like an old garden rose...Justice Miniature Roses says this vibrant pink rose is essentially a scale model of a centifolia. The open bloom is quartered and could pass for something bred in the last millenium... disease-resistance, bloom production and hardiness are unexcelled...
 
 
 
 
 [One of the roses in the Rose Introducers of New Zealand (RINZ) 1998 Display Trial.]
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