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'Southern Sunset' rose Description
Photo courtesy of Cliff's High Desert Garden Archival Dec, 2011 last updated 101812
ARS:
Orange blend Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: Southern Sunset
Bloom:
Amber, yellow undertones, yellow reverse, copper shading. Mild fragrance. 26 to 40 petals. Average diameter 4". Large, full (26-40 petals) bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.
Habit:
Height: 2' to 30" (60 to 75cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default). 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.
Breeder's notes:
Tamarabarani is a river in south India and the word means ‘bearer of copper’. This river is said, in olden days , to have had copper grains flowing along with the water, and on occasion, the glint of orange brown color when the sunlight fell at an angle on the copper dust , was beautiful to behold.
So we named this rose which has perfectly shaped full blooms in shades of silken orange with yellow reverse and coppery overtones as ‘Tamarabarani’- to honor the river which, is like a swathe of silken thread, running through our history, legend and literature.
When we had to think up an English name, ‘sunset’ leapt to our minds, as the colors remind one of a glowing sunset, and as the river we named it for originally, Tamarabarani, is a river in south India we thought adding ‘southern’ would sound good ( and, be alliterative- our weakness!!) so it became ‘Southern Sunset’
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
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