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'Campfire' rose Description
Photo courtesy of David Elliott
HMF Ratings:
20 favorite votes.
Average rating:
EXCELLENT-.
Class:
Floribunda. (Series: Canadian Artists Series)
Bloom:
Yellow, pink edges, ages to cream . None to mild, rose fragrance. 10 to 15 petals. Average diameter 3.25". Medium, semi-double (9-16 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Medium, ovoid buds.
Habit:
Short, rounded, well-branched. Medium, glossy, medium green foliage. 5 to 7 leaflets.
Height: 2' to 39" (60 to 100cm). Width: 28" to 45" (70 to 115cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 2b and warmer. Can be used for beds and borders, container rose or garden. Very hardy. Disease susceptibility: disease resistant.
Breeder's notes:
Campbell Davidson, listed as a hybridizer in the patent, was the Morden Experiment Station manager, not the rose hybridizer.
Patents:
Canada - Patent No: 4471 on 22 Feb 2013 Application No: 11-7295 on 31 May 2011 Breeder: Campbell Davidson, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, Saskatchewan
'CA29' arose from the cross 'My Hero' by 'Frontenac' conducted at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Morden Research Station, Morden, Manitoba in 2001. United States - Patent No: PP 24,435 on 13 May 2014 VIEW USPTO PATENTApplication No: US 13/573,187 on 29 Aug 2012 Inventors: Davidson; Campbell G. (West Hawk Lake, CA), Dyck; Larry J. (Morden, CA)
The new variety of shrub rose, ‘CA 29’, was selected by the Inventors from amongst 444 seedlings derived from a cross made in March 2003 between the female parent, ‘BAIhero’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 15,400) and the male parent, ‘Frontenac’ (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 9,210). ‘CA 29’ was selected as a single unique plant in September of 2005.
Notes:
The name is from a painting of the same name (about 1916) by an influential Canadian landscape painter, Thomas John (Tom) Thomson (1877-1917). Larry Dyck was the rose breeder at the Morden Experimental Station in 2003. Introduced in 2015 by Bailey Nurseries as First Editions® Campfire Rose. Reported to be growing and surviving in at least two Canadian locations in Zone 2b--in Beaverlodge, Alberta and Unity, Saskatchewan.
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