'Perfect Hit ®' Rose

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'Perfect Hit ®' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Cass

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• Perfect Paillette ™
• POUlfect

HMF Ratings:

9 favorite votes.

ARS:

Medium pink Mini-Flora.
Registration name: POUlfect
Exhibition name: Perfect Hit ®

Origin:

Bred by L. Pernille Olesen (Denmark, before 1993). Bred by Mogens Nyegaard Olesen (Denmark, before 1993).
Introduced in Denmark by Poulsen Roser A/S in 1993 as 'Perfect Hit'.

Class:

Mini-Flora, Patio. (Series: PatioHit ® Collection)

Bloom:

Salmon-pink. Occasional white streak on reverse. None / no fragrance. 30 to 35 petals. Average diameter 1.5". Small, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, high-centered to flat, reflexed bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Small, pointed, ovoid buds.

Habit:

Bushy, compact, upright, well-branched. 5 to 7 leaflets.

Height: 16" to 2' (40 to 60cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default). Can be used for beds and borders, container rose or garden.

Patents:

Canada - Patent No: 0606 on 7 Apr 1999
Application No: 95-594 on 14 Aug 1995

Rights surrendered 0n July 28, 2008.
Denomination: 'POULfect'
Trade name: Perfect Hit

European Union - Patent No: 296 on 2 Aug 1996
Application No: 19950358 on 25 Jul 1995

Holder: Poulsen Roser ApS. Denomination approved: POULFECT.
First commercialisation in EU: March 12, 1993
Protection terminated on August 15, 2009.

United States - Patent No: PP 10,083 on 28 Oct 1997 VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 08/606,894 on 21 Feb 1996

Inventors: Olesen; Mogens N. (Fredensborg, DK), Olesen; Pernille (Fredensborg, DK)
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the miniature class which was originated by us by crossing an unnamed seedling, unpatented, with the variety RUIforto, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6244.

Parentage:

Unnamed Seedling × Coral Rosamini

Notes:

A correspondent writes: I purchased Violet Hit as a potted rose from a local store. It was nice in the pot, but when I put it out in my garden it got bigger and bloomed better than any of my 600 or so other roses. I actually planted a hedge of damaged plants that I purchased which the store was going to throw away and they came back and out performed every thing else in my garden. Why hasn't someone started selling them as outside plants for northern climates (zone 5)?

Their sister plants 'Absolute Hit' and 'Perfect Hit' are great, too, and offer marvelous color. 'Absolute Hit' is red, 'Perfect Hit' a salmon pink. For anyone doing dried flowers they are gorgeous and for edging a driveway or walkway with short roses they are the best to be found I think. I have been a rose grower and dried flower supplier for several years so I am not a novice. I really would like to see these roses available to public as garden roses.