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'Petaluma Cover ®' rose Description
'Kirsch Cover ™' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Eugene V.
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
8 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT.  
ARS:
Red blend Shrub.
Exhibition name: Petaluma Cover ®
Origin:
Bred by Mogens Nyegaard Olesen (Denmark, 1996).
Introduced in Denmark by Poulsen Roser A/S in 2005 as 'Kirsch Cover'.
Class:
Shrub.   (Series: Towne & Country ® Series)  
Bloom:
Red, light yellow center, ages to deep pink .  Flowers medium red, fading as they open to medium pink on upper side.  None / no fragrance.  up to 12 petals.  Average diameter 1.75".  Small to medium, semi-double (9-16 petals), cupped-to-flat bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Bushy, spreading.  Glossy, medium green foliage.  5 to 7 leaflets.  

Height: 2' to 39" (60 to 100cm).  Width: up to 2' (up to 60cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Can be used for beds and borders.  
Patents:
Australia - Application No: 2007/277  on  2007   VIEW PBR PATENT
 
United States - Patent No: PP 18,919  on  10 Jun 2008   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 11/001,948  on  1 Dec 2004
Inventors: Olesen; Mogens (Fredensborg, DK)
Assignee: Poulsen Roser A/S (Fredensborg, DK)
The present invention constitutes a new and distinct variety of garden rose plant that originated from a controlled crossing between the female seed parent, an unnamed seedling, and the male pollen parent `Poulerry`, a rose variety by the same inventor, described and illustrated in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 13,450. The two parents were crossed during the summer of 1996
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