'Will Alderman' Rose

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'Will Alderman' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Margit Schowalter

Availability:

Commercially available

HMF Ratings:

21 favorite votes.

ARS:

Medium pink Hybrid Rugosa.
Registration name: Will Alderman

Origin:

Bred by Dr. Frank Leith Skinner (Canada, 1954).
Introduced in New Zealand by Amoré Roses in 2016 as 'Will Alderman'.

Class:

Hybrid Rugosa, Shrub.

Bloom:

Pink, lilac shading, golden-yellow stamens. Strong fragrance. 35 to 40 petals. Average diameter 3". Medium, full (26-40 petals) bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Habit:

Bushy, upright. Medium green foliage.

Height: up to 4' (up to 120cm). Width: up to 4' (up to 120cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 2b and warmer. Very hardy. produces decorative hips. Disease susceptibility: disease resistant.

Patents:

Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).

Ploidy:

Diploid

Parentage:

seed:	Rosa rugosa Thunb. × Rosa acicularis Lindl.
pollen:	Unnamed Seedling

Notes:

There is a very good chance that Skinner used the R. woodsii native to his area of Manitoba rather than, as he thought, R. acicularis. Olsen suggests, on the basis of ploidy and location, that Skinner's hybrids attributed to R. acicularis were probably derived from R. woodsii rather than R. acicularis. R. woodsii is much more common than R. acicularis in the Dropmore, MB area where Skinner was breeding roses (Rose Hybridizers Association Newsletter, Spring 2010, p. 6).