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'Summer Memories' rose Description
'Summer Memories' rose photo
Photo courtesy of GShellrude
Availability:
Commercially available
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HMF Ratings:
34 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT-.  
Origin:
Bred by Tim Hermann Kordes (Germany, 1992).
Introduced in Germany by W. Kordes' Söhne (Retail) in 2004.
Class:
Shrub.  
Bloom:
Cream - white, yellow undertones.  With touches of light pink.  Mild fragrance.  80 to 90 petals.  Average diameter 2.75".  Medium, very full (41+ petals), in small clusters, old-fashioned bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Large, long, pointed, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Arching, bushy, compact, upright.  Semi-glossy, medium green, dense, leathery foliage.  5 leaflets.  

Height: 31" to 6'7" (80 to 200cm).  Width: 30" to 13'1" (75 to 400cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Can be used for garden or landscape.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 17,769  on  29 May 2007   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 11/255,054  on  19 Oct 2005
The new variety of rose plant of the present invention originated from a controlled crossing in a breeding program of two distinct parents during the summer of 1992. The crossing was between ‘Banzai 83’, a non-patented rose and ‘un-named seedling’ of the breeding program of the same inventor.
Notes:
Two different versions of Breeder's code