Day Breaker

Apricot or apricot blend Floribunda.

Exceptional disease resistence, always in bloom and a pleasing soft color that blends with any color palette. 24-30 petals

Yellow and pink. Strong, tea fragrance. 26 to 40 petals. Average diameter 4″. Medium, double (17-25 petals), full (26-40 petals), in small clusters, exhibition bloom form. Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season.

Medium, bushy. Medium, glossy, dark green foliage.

Height of 3′ to 5′ (90 to 150 cm). Width of 3′ (90 cm).

Hybridizer: Gareth Fryer (UnitedKingdom, 2003)

Parentage:

Seed: Silver Jubilee ® (hybrid tea, Cocker, 1978)
Pollen: Pensioner’s Voice x Cheshire Life

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Crimson Bouquet

Dark red Grandiflora.

A vigorous Grandiflora exhibiting bright red blooms. Crimson Bouquet spirals open to reveal 4-inch bright blooms. Disease resistance, hardiness and 14- 18 inch stems make this rose a garden must. 25-30 petals

Dark red. Mild, sweet fragrance. 25 to 30 petals. Average diameter 4″. Large, very double, borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, high-centered bloom form. Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season. Medium, long, pointed, ovoid buds.

Glossy, leathery foliage. 5 leaflets.

Height of 3′ to 4′ (90 to 135 cm). Width of 3′ (90 cm).

Hybridizer: Wilhelm Kordes III (b. 1953) (Germany, 1996)

Parentage:

Seed: Bad Fssing ® (floribunda, Kordes, 1980) x

Pollen: Ingrid Bergman ®

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Colorific

Orange blend Floribunda.

Large pointed buds open to show off shades of peach, coral and salmon. As the blooms age they turn into deeper tones of orange, scarlet and burgundy.

Coral, salmon-orange blending, peach blending, ages to darker . Mild, fruity fragrance. 30 petals. Average diameter 5″. Very large, full (26-40 petals), cluster-flowered, in small clusters, spiral centers bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Pointed buds.

Medium, upright. Medium, glossy, dark green foliage.

Height of 4′ to 4′ (120 to 135 cm).

Hybridizer: William A. Warriner (UnitedStates, 1988)

Parentage:

Seed: Playboy x Lagerfeld
Pollen: Jacob’s Robe ™

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Chrysler Imperial

Dark red Hybrid Tea.

A landmark rose that still hypnotizes people with a powerful rich rose fragrance and velvety red petals. the large full shapely flowers are proudly held atop straight stems clothed with dark matte-green leaves. Vigorous and at its happiest in hot temperatures.

Dark red. Strong fragrance. 45 to 50 petals. Average diameter 5″. Very large, full (26-40 petals), exhibition, high-centered bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Long, pointed buds.

Compact. Semi-glossy, dark green foliage.

Height of 30″ to 6′ (75 to 185 cm). Width of 2′ to 4′ (60 to 120 cm).

Hybridizer: Dr. Walter E. Lammerts (UnitedStates, 1952)

Parentage:

Seed: Charlotte Armstrong x

Pollen: Mirandy

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Ch-Ching

Deep yellow Grandiflora.

“A fragrant yellow blooming fool.”

Deep yellow. Strong, fruity, spice, sweet fragrance. Average diameter 4″. Medium-large, full (26-40 petals), cluster-flowered, in large clusters bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Long buds.

Tall, upright. Medium, semi-glossy, dark green foliage.

Height of 5′ to 6′ 7″ (175 to 200 cm).

Hybridizer: Christian Bedard and Tom Carruth (United States, 2008)

Parentage:

Sport of Strike It Rich ™

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Cecile Brunner 

Light pink Polyantha.

A favorite, covers itself with clusters of tiny pink blooms. Produces perfectly shaped, little pink buds. Hence its nickname, The Sweetheart Rose. Blooms from mid-spring until first frost. A compact bush, displaying sprays of lightly fragrant flowers that look like little, high-centered hybrid tea blossoms of 17-25 petals. Long-lived and healthy, Ccile Brnner takes abuse, putting up with everything from poor soil to partial shade.

Pink, light pink edges, yellow undertones. Moderate fragrance. 30 petals. Average diameter 2.5″. Small, double (17-25 petals), in large clusters bloom form. Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season.

Short, thornless (or almost), well-branched. Light green foliage.

Height of 2′ to 4′ (60 to 120 cm). Width of 2′ (60 cm).

Hybridizer: Marie aka Veuve (vve, widow) Ducher (France, 1880)

Parentage:

Seed; Polyantha alba plena x

Pollen: Madame de Tartas

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Carefree Spirit 

Medium red.

The 2009 AARS Winner. Finally a true red, hardy shrub rose! An offspring of our popular winner ‘Carefree Delight®’, Meilland hybridized an even better landscape plant that keeps the great foliage of its parent and adds more disease resistance, as well as having an even better plant habit with a great non-fading bright red color. A consensus winner that will work well in all of the climates for which it was tested. Hardy Zone 5.

Red, white center. Single (4-8 petals), cluster-flowered bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Medium, bushy, mounded.

Height of up to 5′ (up to 150 cm).

Hybridizer: Alain Meilland (France, 2007)

Parentage:

seed: Red Max Graf x Seedling
pollen: Pink Meidiland ® x Immensee (shrub, Kordes 1982)

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Carefree Delight

Pink blend Shrub.

An ideal landscape rose would alwas have some flowers…and this one comes pretty close…always having a few or more clusters of new flowers opening each day. The delightful single pink flowers have a bright white ‘eye’ zone that blinks up at you from the mounded mass of small deep green leaves. Great disease resistance and super hardiness make it a user friendly rose for all–just watch out for those thorns.4-8 petals

Pink blend, white center. None / no fragrance. 5 petals. Average diameter 2.75″. Medium, single (4-8 petals), borne mostly solitary, cluster-flowered, in small clusters, cupped-to-flat bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Bushy. Medium, glossy, medium green foliage.

Height of 28″ to 3′ (70 to 90 cm). Width of 39″ to 5′ (100 to 150 cm).

Hybridizer: Alain Meilland (France, 1993)

Parentage:

seed: Eyepaint ® x Nirvana ®
pollen: Smarty ® (shrub, Ilsink 1977)

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Carefree Beauty

Medium pink Shrub.

One of the best Shrub roses to come from the efforts of Dr. Griffith Buck–a man who dedicated his hybridizing toward achieving carefree roses that survive in cold climates. Large pleasant pink flowers always seem to grace the bushy full plant. The bright apple-green foliage is naturally disease resistant. And best of all,old man winter has to work overtime to do any damage.

Pink, ages to light pink . Strong, sweet fragrance. 15 to 20 petals. Average diameter 4.5″. Large, semi-double to double, cupped-to-flat bloom form. Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season. Large buds.

Upright. Medium, medium green foliage.

Height of 4′ to 5′ (120 to 150 cm). Width of 4′ (120 cm).

Hybridizer: Dr. Griffith J. Buck (United States, 1977)

Parentage:

seed: Applejack x [[Dean Collins x Queen Elizabeth] x [Independence x Improved Lafayette]]
pollen: Prairie Princess

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