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'JACpursh' rose Description
'Purple Simplicity' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Sue The Rose Lover's Garden (Roselvr)
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
17 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Mauve or mauve blend Shrub.
Registration name: JACpursh
Exhibition name: Purple Simplicity
Origin:
Bred by Dr. Keith W. Zary (United States, 1998).
Introduced in United States by Bear Creek Gardens, Inc. in 1999 as 'Purple Simplicity'.
Introduced in Australia by Swane's Nursery/Swane Bros Pty Ltd in 2000 as 'Purple Simplicity'.
Class:
Floribunda, Shrub.  
Bloom:
Mauve or purple blend.  Strong, damask fragrance.  15 to 20 petals.  Average diameter 3".  Small, high-centered to flat bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:

Height: 3' to 5' (90 to 150cm).  Width: 3' to 42" (90 to 105cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b and warmer.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.  Spring Pruning: Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood and cut back canes that cross. In warmer climates, cut back the remaining canes by about one-third. In colder areas, you'll probably find you'll have to prune a little more than that.  Requires spring freeze protection (see glossary - Spring freeze protection) .  Can be grown in the ground or in a container (container requires winter protection).  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 11,251  on  29 Feb 2000   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 000607  on  30 Dec 1997
Inventor: Keith W. Zary (Thousand Oaks, CA). Assignee: Bear Creek Gardens, Inc. (Medford, OR). Shrub rose plant with dark green, glossy foliage; vigorous, upright growth habit; fragrant flower with rapid petal drop; ability to root and grow from hardwood cuttings; resistance to disease; and production of bright orange hips... Parentage: unnamed seedling x JACsedi (US Plant Pat. No. 9172)... The primary objective of this breeding was to produce a new rose variety having the excellent hardwood cutting rooting ability, the clean petal drop, and vigorous well-branched growth habit of the unnamed lavender shrub female parent combined with the very glossy foliage, purple flowers, and fragrance of the male parent... JACpursh also produces green fruit turning in August and September to orange. These fruit are substantially spherical (3/4" in diameter) and contain up to twenty seeds. Production of fruit does not prevent continued flowering. Fruit is persistent until late November in Somis, California, when it drops... blooms appear in clusters of five to nine flowers...
Notes:
There's a color photograph of this rose in the November 1998 issue of the American Rose Society's American Rose magazine (p. 26).