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'Happy Child' rose Description
'Happy Child' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Quail Haven Farm
Availability:
Commercially available
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HMF Ratings:
34 favorite votes.  
Average rating: GOOD+.  
ARS:
Medium yellow Shrub.
Registration name: AUScomp
Exhibition name: Happy Child
Origin:
Bred by David C. H. Austin (1926-2018) (United Kingdom, before 1992).
Introduced in United Kingdom by David Austin Roses Limited (UK) in 1993 as 'Happy Child'.
Introduced in United States by Heirloom Roses, Inc. (USA) in 1994 as 'Happy Child'.
Class:
Shrub.   (Series: English Rose Collection)  
Bloom:
Yellow.  Moderate, sweet, tea rose fragrance.  100 to 160 petals.  Average diameter 4".  Large, very full (41+ petals), in small clusters, cupped-to-flat, old-fashioned bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Large, pointed, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Bushy, thornless (or almost).  Medium foliage.  5 leaflets.  

Height: 3' to 4' (90 to 120cm).  Width: up to 4' (up to 120cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 5b through 10b.  
Patents:
Australia - Application No: 1998/082  on  1998   VIEW PBR PATENT
 
European Union - Patent No: 330  on  2 Aug 1996
Application No: 19950460  on  24 Jul 1995
First commercialisation in EU: May 1, 1993; outside EU: 01/01/1994
Protection terminated on October 15, 2002.
 
New Zealand - Patent No: 1294  on  26 Aug 1997
 
United States - Patent No: PP 9,007  on  13 Dec 1994   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 08/181,987  on  13 Jan 1994
Observations made from specimens grown in a garden environment in Albrighton, Wolverhampton, England, in Jul. 1992.
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