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'Diamond Border ™' rose Description
'Diamond Border ™' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Irene Peslyak
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
7 favorite votes.  
ARS:
White, near white or white blend Shrub.
Registration name: POUldiram
Exhibition name: Diamond Head
Origin:
Bred by L. Pernille Olesen (Denmark, 1990). Bred by Mogens Nyegaard Olesen (Denmark, 1990).
Introduced in Denmark by Poulsen Roser A/S in 2000 as 'Diamond Border'.
Class:
Polyantha, Shrub.   (Series: Towne & Country ® Series)  
Bloom:
White, cream shading.  None to mild fragrance.  12 to 18 petals.  Average diameter 2.5".  Medium, semi-double to double, cluster-flowered, flat to cupped bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Small, pointed, ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Tall, arching, bushy.  Glossy, dark green foliage.  

Height: 39" to 4'11" (100 to 150cm).  Width: up to 35" (up to 90cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 4b through 9b.  Hardy.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.  
Patents:
Australia - Patent No: AU3989P  on  24 Mar 2010
Application No: 2004/183  on  15 Jun 2004   VIEW PBR PATENT
seed parent ‘MEIdomonac’ x pollen parent un-named seedling. Hybridization took place in spring 1990 in Fredensborg, Denmark.
First sold in the EU in Nov 2000
 
Canada - Patent No: 1358  on  3 Feb 2003
Application No: 98-1285  on  20 Mar 1998
Rights surrendered on January 7, 2010.
Denomination: 'POULdiram'
Previously Proposed Denomination: 'POULdiam'
Trade name: Diamond Head
 
European Union - Patent  on  1997
 
New Zealand - Patent  on  2003
 
South Africa - Patent  on  2002
 
United States - Patent No: PP 12,568  on  23 Apr 2002   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 09/273,167  on  19 Mar 1999
Inventors: Olesen; L. Pernille (DK-3480, Fredensborg, DK), Olesen; Mogens N. (DK-3480, Fredensborg, DK)
The present invention constitutes a new and distinct variety of garden rose plant which originated from a controlled crossing conducted in the summer of 1990 between `Bonica 82` and an unnamed seedling.....`POULdiram` was selected by the inventors in the Spring of 1991 as a single plant from the progeny of the aforementioned hybridization.
Notes:
This rose is known as 'Diamond Head' in the USA.
Internal breeder code: 91/1207-2. No. 92 in the 1997 Monza Competition (Source: Website Roseto Niso Fumagalli.)