'Dragon's Blood' Rose

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'Dragon's Blood' rose Description

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Photo courtesy of redwolfdoc

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• 79-03-02 (shrub, Barden 1979)
• ARDraco

HMF Ratings:

23 favorite votes.
Average rating: FAIR.

ARS:

Russet Shrub.
Registration name: ARDraco, Dragon's Blood

Origin:

Bred by Paul Barden (United States, 1979).

Class:

Floribunda.

Bloom:

Russet. Mild, honey, tea rose fragrance. 15 to 25 petals. Average diameter 2.5". Medium, semi-double (9-16 petals), cluster-flowered, cupped-to-flat bloom form. Continuous (perpetual) bloom throughout the season.

Habit:

Bushy, well-branched. Medium, semi-glossy, dark green foliage.

Height: 4' to 7' (120 to 215cm). Width: 4' to 7' (120 to 215cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default). Can be used for container rose or garden. Very vigorous. flowers drop off cleanly. heat tolerant. Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant, susceptible to blackspot . Prune lightly until this rose gets established (about two years), then prune it back by about a third.. Remove spent blooms only.

Breeder's notes:

This seedling has a remarkable color combination; an overall rusty-orange hue with an overlay of varying amounts of smoky purple. Its blend of colors varies with the atmospheric temperature. It is continuously in flower, sending out a new cluster immediately behind the previous cluster.

I have used 'Dragon's Blood' in breeding and found it to have some excellent genes for color and floriferousness. Breeders take note.

Patents:

Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).

Parentage:

seed:	[ Little Darling × Yellow Magic (miniature, Moore 1970)] × "Grandma's Hat"
pollen:	Brown Velvet

Notes:

Further notes on the parentage of 'Dragon's Blood': the seed parent is an un-named Ralph Moore rose given to me for breeding purposes. Its Moore code number is 203-91-13. It came from Moore's 1-72-1 crossed with a found Bourbon, believed to be "Grandma's Hat".