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'Mike's Old-Fashioned Pink' rose Description
'Bon Chance' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Waldgarten
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
32 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT-.  
ARS:
Light pink Shrub.
Registration name: Mike's Old-Fashioned Pink
Exhibition name: Mike's Old-Fashioned Pink
Origin:
Bred by Malcolm ("Mike") Lowe (United States, 2000).
Class:
Shrub.  
Bloom:
Light pink.  Strong, lily of the valley fragrance.  Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season, blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:

Height: 4' (120cm).  Width: 4' (120cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 5a through 9b.  
Breeder's notes:
Very bushy 4x5 ft continus bloom.Fall bloom in hever clusters than spring up to 15 blossums per stem

[Large shrub to 4x4 ft ever blooming blooms are best in fall iridescent pink hardy to zone 5 no protection needed shiny green foliage]
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Notes:
Mike Lowe of Lowe's Roses says the flowers are double, old-fashioned in form, light pink with silver and medium pink highlights; a larger, brighter 'Marquis Bocella' with modern foliage... and... it repeats! (There's a photo of this rose on the cover of Lowe's Roses catalog.
 
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