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    'DARcanard' rose Description
    'Party Hardy (HKor, Bedard 2009)' rose photo
    Photo courtesy of Kathy Strong
    Availability:
    Commercially available
    Synonyms:
    • Nouvelle France
    • Party Hardy (HKor, Bedard 2009)
    • WEKdarcanard
    HMF Ratings:
    12 favorite votes.  
    Average rating: EXCELLENT.  
    ARS:
    Pink blend Hybrid Kordesii.
    Registration name: DARcanard
    Exhibition name: Nouvelle France
    Origin:
    Discovered by Christian Bédard (United States, before 2006).
    Introduced in United States by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Inc. in 2009 as 'Nouvelle France'.
    Class:
    Hybrid Kordesii.  
    Bloom:
    Deep pink, lighter reverse.  None to mild fragrance.  Average diameter 2.75".  Medium, double (17-25 petals), cluster-flowered, in small clusters bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
    Habit:
    Tall, climbing, spreading.  Large, glossy, dark green foliage.  3 to 7 leaflets.  

    Height: 6' (185cm).  
    Growing:
    Can be used for garden.  Very hardy.  very vigorous.  
    Patents:
    United States - Patent No: PP 21,449  on  9 Nov 2010   VIEW USPTO PATENT
    Application No: 12/587,965  on  14 Oct 2009
    Inventors: Bedard; Christian (Brea, CA)
    Assignee: Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Inc. (Pomona, CA)
    The new variety comes from an open pollination of the seed parent known as `AC Marie-Victorin` (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 11,650)....description is of 3 to 4 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Pomona, Calif. in the month of September.
    Parentage:
    Marie-Victorin × Unknown
    Notes:
    Weeks Roses website announces the parentage as 'Marie Victorin' OP.