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'WEKausboy' rose Description
'Jacob's Robe ™' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Jean Marion
Availability:
Commercially available
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HMF Ratings:
20 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT.  
ARS:
Yellow blend Large-Flowered Climber.
Registration name: WEKausboy
Exhibition name: Jacob's Robe ™
Origin:
Bred by Tom Carruth (United States, before 2006).
Introduced in United States by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Inc. in 2008 as 'Jacob's Robe'.
Class:
Climber, Large-Flowered Climber.  
Bloom:
Yellow blend.  Upper: yellow, peach, pink stripe blushing all pink, reverse: similar, but more yellow.  Moderate fragrance.  12 to 15 petals.  Average diameter 3.5".  Large, semi-double (9-16 petals), in small clusters bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:
Climbing, spreading.  Large, glossy, medium green foliage.  3 to 5 leaflets.  

Height: up to 8'2" (up to 250cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Can be used for cut flower or garden.  Remove spent blooms to encourage re-bloom.  Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood..  Remove unproductive wood every third year or so.  
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 20,742  on  9 Feb 2010   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 12/291,981  on  13 Nov 2008
Inventors: Carruth; Thomas F. (Altadena, CA)
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Climbing Rose. It has as its seed parent the variety known as Autumn Sunset (not patented) and as its pollen parent the variety known as Playboy (not patented).....description is of 2 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Wasco, Calif. in the month of October
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