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'Golden Wings' rose Description
Photo courtesy of Ulrich Leipzig
HMF Ratings:
58 favorite votes.
Average rating:
EXCELLENT-.
ARS:
Light yellow Shrub.
Registration name: Golden Wings (shrub, Shepherd 1954)
Class:
Hybrid Spinosissima, Shrub.
Bloom:
Light yellow, orange-red stamens. Mild, tea fragrance. 5 petals. Average diameter 4.5". Large, single (4-8 petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, flat bloom form. Spring or summer flush with scattered later bloom. Large buds.
Habit:
Medium, armed with thorns / prickles, rounded, well-branched. Light green foliage.
Height: 42" to 6'7" (105 to 200cm). Width: 4' to 6' (120 to 185cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 4b and warmer. Heat tolerant. shade tolerant. Needs little care; relatively disease-free and quite hardy. Prune dead wood. Prune lightly or not at all. Remove unproductive wood every third year or so.
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 1,419 on 13 Sep 1955 VIEW USPTO PATENTApplication No: 433,320 on 28 May 1954 Roy E. Shepherd, Medina, Ohio, assignor to Edith C. Bosley, Mentor, Ohio.
....My new variety is the result of a cross made by me at my nurseries in Medina, between the unpatented varieties Soeur Therese and R. spinosissima.
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