'Anna Alexieff' Rose

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'Anna Alexieff' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of jedmar

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

HMF Ratings:

16 favorite votes.

ARS:

Medium pink Hybrid Perpetual.
Registration name: Anna Alexieff
Exhibition name: Anna Alexieff

Origin:

Bred by Jacques-Julien Margottin père (1817-1892) (France, 1858).
Introduced in Australia by George Brunning - St. Kilda Nurseries in 1863 as 'Anna Alexieff'.

Class:

Hybrid Perpetual.

Bloom:

Light pink, salmon-pink shading. [Salmon-pink or light pink.] Medium to large, large, double (17-25 petals), full (26-40 petals), cupped bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Habit:

Climbing.

Height: up to 4'11" (up to 150cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default). Very vigorous.

Patents:

Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).

Parentage:

seedling of Jules Margottin (hybrid perpetual, Margottin, 1852)

Notes:

From kajuta.net - Rosa 'Anna Alekseeva': Dedicated to Anna Alexandrovna Alekseeva (March 22, 1840 - July 20, 1909), daughter of Alexander Wassiljewitsch Alekseev (1788-1841), Russian industrialist and mayor of Moscow. In 1856 she married Ivan Yakovlevich Prokhorov (1833 - October 23, 1881) from another industrialist family. The young pair was in Paris end of 1856/beginning of 1857.