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Light pink Polyantha.
Exhibition name: Too Cute

Bred by Kim L. Rupert (United States, 2001).

Polyantha.  

Pink and white.  Strong, musk, sweet fragrance.  Average diameter 1".  Small to medium, very double, cluster-flowered, in large clusters, old-fashioned, rosette bloom form.  Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season.  

Bushy, dense, well-branched.  Medium, semi-glossy, medium green foliage.  

Height: 2' to 4' (60 to 120cm).  Width: 2' to 4' (60 to 120cm).

USDA zone 6b and warmer.  Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, cut flower, exhibition, garden, hedge, landscape, shrub or specimen.  Can be grown as a shrub.  flowers drop off cleanly.  heat tolerant.  plant in partial shade for best color.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant, very blackspot resistant., very mildew resistant.  Spring Pruning: Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood and cut back canes that cross. In warmer climates, cut back the remaining canes by about one-third. In colder areas, you'll probably find you'll have to prune a little more than that.  

Prior to Too Cute's arrival in my seedling beds, I'd been exploring Old Garden Roses in my breeding. From its appearance, this obviously contains some of those genes. Unfortunately, the breeding information has been lost, so I can't shed any further light on what created this rose.

There is a very sweet, innocent charm to this plant. In keeping with traditional polyantha characteristics, the canes bear foliage toward their bottoms, leaving the upper half to two-thirds to break into large, branched clusters of bloom. I'd been impressed with the fragrance and continuity of bloom for some time. When the plant filled out and developed into a bushy, flowering mound, I had to keep it. A dear friend, Candy Craig, for whom I named my rose, Annie Laurie McDowell, exclaimed when she kneeled to smell the rose, "Darling! That's Too Cute!" With her permission, the name stuck.

Too Cute makes a lovely addition to a bed of perennials; a sensuous, continuous blooming shorter hedge; a romantic, feminine potted plant for use on a balcony, deck or patio, and has been successfully exhibited in Southern California.

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Ashdown Roses says this rose has clusters of up to 40 nickel-sized blooms which are very double and fragrant...