'Esprit ®' Rose

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'Esprit ®' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Elba

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• City of Birmingham
• Holstein 87
• KORholst
• Petit Marquis

HMF Ratings:

9 favorite votes.

ARS:

Dark red Shrub.
Registration name: KORholst
Exhibition name: Esprit ®

Origin:

Bred by Reimer Kordes (1922-1997) (Germany, 1985).
Introduced in Germany by W. Kordes' Söhne (Retail) in 1987.

Class:

Shrub.

Bloom:

Dark red. Mild fragrance. 10 to 15 petals. Average diameter 3". Medium, semi-double (9-16 petals), cluster-flowered, in small clusters, high-centered to flat bloom form. Prolific, blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Habit:

Dense, few or no prickles/thorns, upright. Glossy, dark green foliage. 5 to 7 leaflets.

Height: 2' (60cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default). Can be used for garden, landscape or shrub. Vigorous. Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant, mildew resistant.

Patents:

United States - Patent No: PP 6,117 on 1 Mar 1998 VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 06/833,614 on 27 Feb 1996

This present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the shrub class which was originated by crossing the varieties, Tornado and Samling, unpatented, with the variety, Chorus, unpatented.

Parentage:

seed:	Tornado ® (floribunda, Kordes 1973) × Unnamed Seedling
pollen:	Chorus ®

Notes:

It was named to celebrate England's biggest industrial city... in Germany, it was named to acknowledge the province of Holstein...