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    'Arizona Sun' rose Description
    'Arizona Sun (floribunda, Warner before 2023)' rose photo
    Photo courtesy of Ben Carrick
    Availability:
    Commercially available
    Synonyms:
    • Arizona Bee Licious ®
    • CHEWarizona
    Origin:
    Bred by Christopher H. Warner (United Kingdom, 2014).
    Introduced in Netherlands by Jan Spek Rozen BV in 2023 as 'Arizona Bee Licious'.
    Class:
    Floribunda.  
    Bloom:
    Apricot, darker center. Yellow-amber.  Bronze-apricot.  Moderate, sweet fragrance.  35 to 40 petals.  Average diameter 3.5".  Large, full (26-40 petals), in small clusters bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Ovoid buds.  
    Habit:
    Upright.  Semi-glossy, medium green foliage.  3 to 7 leaflets.  

    Height: 2' to 32" (60 to 80cm).  Width: 4'2" to 5'10" (125 to 180cm).
    Growing:
    Disease susceptibility: disease resistant.  
    Patents:
    United States - Patent No: PP 36,044  on  30 Jul 2024   VIEW USPTO PATENT
    Application No: 18/118,433  on  7 Mar 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Hugh Warner, Shropshire (GB)
    Assignee: Spring Meadow Nursery Inc., Grand Haven, MI (US)
    The cross resulting in this new variety was made during May of 2014 at a nursery in Shropshire, UK. The seed parent is the variety Rosa 'Kenendure', unpatented. The pollen parent is the unpatented variety Rosa 'Noa75800'.
    Parentage:
    Apple Jack (shrub, Kenny, 2009) × Westzeit ®
    Notes:
    Source: Arizona Bee Licious