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• Virhold

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Deep yellow Hybrid Gigantea.
Registration name: Virhold
Exhibition name: Golden Threshold ™

Bred by M.S. Viraraghavan (India, 2005).
Introduced in United States by Roses Unlimited in 2004 as 'Golden Threshold'.

Climber, Hybrid Gigantea, Large-Flowered Climber.  

Deep yellow.  None to mild fragrance.  4 to 11 petals.  Average diameter 4".  Small, single (4-8 petals), borne mostly solitary bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.  

Tall, climbing, upright.  Large, glossy, medium green foliage.  

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Can be used for garden, landscape or pillar.  Prune lightly until this rose gets established (about two years), then prune it back by about a third..  Remove unproductive wood every third year or so.  

Very distinctive red pollen.

This golden yellow flowered gigantea climber has been named to honor the memory of one of India’s leading poets of the last century, a colorful personality and a freedom fighter for India’s independence, a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, who called her ‘The Nightingale of India’.
‘Golden Threshold’ is the name of the house she lived in the early 1900’s, in Hyderabad, a city in central India, a house which, while being maintained as a heritage building, also houses the administrative buildings of The Central University of Hyderabad. Sarojini Naidu also brought out an anthology of her poems entitled “The Golden Threshold”. Traditionally, in an Indian Hindu home, the front entry door would have a threshold, and this would be periodically painted with a paste of turmeric powder – turmeric is considered to be auspicious, and also as it is an antiseptic, when someone crosses the entry threshold to enter a house, he/she is being sanitized. We felt that this rose variety showed promise and was hopefully the threshold to more and better evergreen, warm climate roses.

RNRS 'Tne Rose' for Autumn/Winter 2006 page 99 states that this rose is a Hybrid Gigantea.