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  Thanks to Vernon Rickard I'm able to offer this gorgeous floribunda.  Almost constant and furious bloom from this variety.  A mature and in bloom bush is an eye-full of brilliant salmon-pink orange blooms 4-5 ft in every direction.  What it may give up to other varieties in sheer numbers of blooms (not much) it makes up for in having fragrance.  In my opinion this rose is just as disease resistant as the famous Knock Out and should prove suitable for the same applications - hedges - color beds and general, from the road, eye-stoppers.  If you can grow "Playboy" you'll do well with this one.  Seems to be very hardy here in zone 6 and if I'm  given feedback on growth further north, I'll update my opinion.  This variety does not however get along with the "voles" we have here outside, it does not like having its' roots nibbled on.  This will definitely make our "Tennessee Green" list of roses that are both hardy enough, vigorous enough and care-free enough for anyone to grow and enjoy!

  Available in extremely limited quantities (pick-up only) in 2005.  As inventory increases more shippable sizes will be available.

 

DETAILS
Height/Habit 3 to 4 Feet, Dense, Well Branched
Bloom Size 3 1/2 inches Good Repeat
Foliage Deep Green
Petal Count 10
Fragrance Strong
Hardiness Zone 6?
Hybridizer Vernon Rickard -2003
Disease
Resistance
Excellent
Uses Borders, Mass Plantings of Color
Virus Status Clean
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Revision Date23 Oct 2007