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    'Sweet Hips' rose Description
    'Sweet Hips' rose photo
    Photo courtesy of Jonathan Windham
    Availability:
    Commercially available
    Synonyms:
    • KAPswehp
    HMF Ratings:
    2 favorite votes.  
    Average rating: EXCELLENT-.  
    Origin:
    Bred by Jay Kapac (United States, before 2014).
    Introduced in United States by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Inc. in 2019 as 'Sweet Hips'.
    Class:
    Hybrid Rugosa.  
    Bloom:
    Fuchsia / magenta.  Strong, clove, spice fragrance.  up to 5 petals.  Average diameter 3".  Medium, single (4-8 petals), in small clusters, cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Glandular sepals, leafy sepals, rounded buds.  
    Habit:
    Well-branched.  Leathery, wrinkled (rugose) foliage.  7 to 9 leaflets.  

    Height: 5¼' to 6¼' (160 to 190cm).  Width: 47" to 4'11" (120 to 150cm).
    Patents:
    United States - Patent No: PP 30,888  on  24 Sep 2019   VIEW USPTO PATENT
    Application No: 15/732, 114  on  19 Sep 2017
    This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Rugosa Rose. It has as its seed parent a variety known as “Niven's White’ Rugosa’ (not patented), and as its pollen parent an unknown Rugosa rose. It was hybridized by Jay Kapac.
    ...The following description is of 3 to 4-year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Tipp City, Ohio in the month of June.
    Parentage:
    Nyveldt's White × Unknown
    Notes:
    Source: Sweet Hips