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'Campfire' rose Description
'First Editions® Campfire Rose' rose photo
Photo courtesy of jim1961
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
20 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT-.  
Origin:
Bred by Campbell G. Davidson (Canada, 2001). Bred by Larry Dyck (Canada, 2003).
Introduced by CNLA Rose Consortium in 2013 as 'Campfire'.
Class:
Floribunda.   (Series: Canadian Artists Series)  
Bloom:
Yellow, pink edges, ages to cream .  None to mild, rose fragrance.  10 to 15 petals.  Average diameter 3.25".  Medium, semi-double (9-16 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Medium, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Short, rounded, well-branched.  Medium, glossy, medium green foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: 2' to 39" (60 to 100cm).  Width: 28" to 45" (70 to 115cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 2b and warmer.  Can be used for beds and borders, container rose or garden.  Very hardy.  Disease susceptibility: disease resistant.  
Breeder's notes:
Campbell Davidson, listed as a hybridizer in the patent, was the Morden Experiment Station manager, not the rose hybridizer.
Patents:
Canada - Patent No: 4471  on  22 Feb 2013
Application No: 11-7295  on  31 May 2011
Breeder: Campbell Davidson, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, Saskatchewan
'CA29' arose from the cross 'My Hero' by 'Frontenac' conducted at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Morden Research Station, Morden, Manitoba in 2001.
 
United States - Patent No: PP 24,435  on  13 May 2014   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: US 13/573,187  on  29 Aug 2012
Inventors: Davidson; Campbell G. (West Hawk Lake, CA), Dyck; Larry J. (Morden, CA)
The new variety of shrub rose, ‘CA 29’, was selected by the Inventors from amongst 444 seedlings derived from a cross made in March 2003 between the female parent, ‘BAIhero’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 15,400) and the male parent, ‘Frontenac’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,210). ‘CA 29’ was selected as a single unique plant in September of 2005.
Ploidy:
Tetraploid
Notes:
The name is from a painting of the same name (about 1916) by an influential Canadian landscape painter, Thomas John (Tom) Thomson (1877-1917).

Larry Dyck was the rose breeder at the Morden Experimental Station in 2003.

Introduced in 2015 by Bailey Nurseries as First Editions® Campfire Rose.

Reported to be growing and surviving in at least two Canadian locations in Zone 2b--in Beaverlodge, Alberta and Unity, Saskatchewan.