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'WEKpurmebep' rose Description
'WEKpurmebep' rose photo
Photo courtesy of jedmar
Availability:
Commercially available
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HMF Ratings:
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Average rating: EXCELLENT-.  
ARS:
White, near white or white blend Grandiflora.
Registration name: WEKpurmebep
Exhibition name: Miss Congeniality
Origin:
Bred by Christian Bédard (United States, before 2012).
Introduced in United States by Breck's Bulbs in 2015 as 'Miss Congeniality'.
Class:
Grandiflora.  
Bloom:
Cream, pink edges.  Moderate, spice fragrance.  20 to 30 petals.  Average diameter 3.75".  Large, very double, borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, high-centered to cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:
Upright.  Glossy, medium green foliage.  3 to 9 leaflets.  

Height: 4¼' to 5¾' (130 to 175cm).  Width: 47" to 4'11" (120 to 150cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 4b through 10a.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 28,720  on  5 Dec 2017   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 14/757,088  on  16 Nov 2015
Inventors: Bedard; Christian (Placentia, CA)
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Grandiflora Rose. It has a non-disseminated seedling of my creation as its seed parent with the following genetic origin {[(International Herald Tribune×Rosa soulieana derivative)×(Sweet Chariot×Blue Nile)]×(Blueberry Hill×Stephen's Big Purple)} and a non-disseminated seedling of my creation as its pollen parent with the following genetic origin (Meredith×Betty Boop).
...The branches used for the photograph came from 3 to 4 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Pomona, Calif. in the month of November.
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