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    'Compassionate Friends' rose Description
    'Compassionate Friends (grandiflora, Walsh, 2000)' rose photo
    Photo courtesy of Patricia Routley
    Availability:
    Commercially available
    Synonyms:
    • WALfriends
    HMF Ratings:
    15 favorite votes.  
    ARS:
    Light yellow Grandiflora.
    Registration name: WALfriends
    Exhibition name: Compassionate Friends
    Origin:
    Bred by Richard Bruce Walsh (Australia, 2000).
    Class:
    Grandiflora.  
    Bloom:
    Light yellow.  Mild fragrance.  6 to 14 petals.  Average diameter 2.75".  Large, semi-double (9-16 petals) bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
    Growing:
    USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  
    Patents:
    Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
    Parentage:
    seed: Ginger Meggs × City of Leeds
    pollen: Gold Medal
    Notes:
     
     
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