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'Firestar' rose Description
Photo courtesy of Cliff's High Desert Garden Archival Dec, 2011 last updated 101812
HMF Ratings:
99 favorite votes.
Average rating:
EXCELLENT.
Bloom:
Orange-pink. [Apricot - pink.]. Flowers mango orange suffusing to pink. Mild, fruity, tea fragrance. 20 to 32 petals. Average diameter 3.5". Large, very double, borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, high-centered to cupped, open, ruffled, scalloped bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.
Habit:
Medium, bushy, rounded, upright. Medium, glossy, dark green foliage. 3 to 5 leaflets.
Height: 39" to 4¼' (100 to 130cm). Width: up to 30" (up to 75cm).
Growing:
Can be used for beds and borders, cut flower or garden. Vigorous. Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 22,587 on 20 Mar 2012 VIEW USPTO PATENTApplication No: 12/925,119 on 14 Oct 2010 Inventors: Harkness; Robert (Letchworth, GB), Harkness; Philip (Letchworth, GB)
It has an undisseminated seedling of my creation as its seed parent with the following genetic origin (Queen Charlotte.times.Della Balfour) and as its pollen parent the variety known as `SCRivluv` (not patented)..... description is of 3 to 4 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Pomona, Calif. in the month of September.
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