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'Firestar' rose Reviews & Comments
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The description I have from the label on Firestar just purchased has a copyright to NORWOOD 2010. Description is: Floribunda, foliage from the ground up and flowers in abundance. Colour orange, becoming raspberry-pink. Scent: Light. Flower: Double, about 30 petals. Distinct, unusual frilly petals, attractive colour-change as the flower opens. Diameter approx. 10cm.
Bush: Bushy, excellent flowering continuity, mature dimensions approx 0.80m x 0.75m. Health: Very good disease resistance.
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#1 of 5 posted
27 OCT 11 by
 jedmar
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Thank you, description added.
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The 'Firestar' (Delforge, 1967) rose may well be a climber. Refer the 2005 reference.
Alana - I suspect your photos are those of the 'Firestar' (Harkness, Before 2006) rose. They are similar to the frilly outline photo on p33 of the 2009 Australian Rose Annual.
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#3 of 5 posted
7 JUL 12 by
jedmar
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It certainly seems to be the Harkness rose. See here:
http://www.firestarrose.com.au/index.php/the-birth-of-the-rose/
It also seems to be synonymous with 'Easy Does It'
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Thank you for your comments. I'm not sure that it is Easy Does It which appears frilly from the beginning of opening, however, Firestar does not have the frilly shape until it is aging and then it is not a frilled edging but a crimpling of the petal. Colour match seems identical, however, my camera is not picking up the bright strawberry colour which develops at the edge of the aged petals.
Cheers
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Hi Patricia. This is a rose introduced (or renamed) for firefighters and in memory of Victoria's Black Saturday. It is definitely not a climber but a low growing and well rounded bush. The colour match is very close to Easy Does It but not the frilly edging. I'll try to find a picture of Firestar by Delforge. I do love these investigations into rose blood lines and breeding.
Kind regards,
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