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'Lydia' rose Description
'Lydia (floribunda, Interplant before 1994)' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Dernovaya Maria
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
11 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Light pink Floribunda.
Exhibition name: Lydia
Origin:
Bred by Gerrit Pieter Ilsink (Netherlands, before 1994).
Introduced in Netherlands by Interplant BV in 1995.
Class:
Floribunda, Florists Rose.   (Series: Spray Rose Series)  
Bloom:
Light pink.  35 to 43 petals.  Average diameter 1.75".  Small to medium, full (26-40 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, high-centered to cupped, reflexed, scalloped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Large buds.  
Habit:
Few or no prickles/thorns, upright.  Small foliage.  3 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: 2' to 28" (60 to 70cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Can be used for cut flower.  
Patents:
Australia - Application No: 1995/116  on  1995   VIEW PBR PATENT
 
United States - Patent No: PP 9,722  on  3 Dec 1996   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 08/597,900  on  7 Feb 1996

A new variety of floribunda rose producing light cream pink flowers with a
general tonality of pink from a distance.



Inventors:
Ilsink; G. P. (Doorn, NL)
Assignee:

DeVor Nurseries, Inc.
(Watsonville,
CA)


Notes:
Parentage per American patent.