'Oso Easy Honey Bun' Rose

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'Oso Easy Honey Bun' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of jedmar

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• Honey Bun
• Scrivjean

HMF Ratings:

14 favorite votes.

ARS:

Yellow blend Shrub.
Exhibition name: Honey Bun (shrubs, Scrivens, 2009)

Origin:

Bred by Len Scrivens (1937-2021) (United Kingdom, 1994).
Introduced in United States by Spring Meadow Nursery, Inc. in 2009 as 'Oso Easy Honey Bun'.

Class:

Shrub.

Bloom:

Cream, light yellow shading, golden-yellow stamens. Blush-pink to butter yellow to creamy white. Mild, sweet fragrance. 16 to 30 petals. Average diameter 1.75". Small to medium, very double, in small clusters, open, rosette bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Medium, ovoid buds.

Habit:

Short, few or no prickles/thorns, mounded, rounded, spreading, upright. Small, glossy, medium green, dense foliage.

Height: 2' to 3' (60 to 90cm). Width: 3' to 4' (90 to 120cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 5a and warmer. Can be used for ground cover. Needs little care; relatively disease-free and quite hardy. Prune dead wood. Prune lightly or not at all.

Patents:

Canada - Patent No: 3915 on 27 Aug 2010
Application No: 08-6439 on 30 Sep 2008

Rights surrendered on August 27, 2017.
Breeder: Leonard William Scrivens, Kidderminster, United Kingdom
Applicant: Spring Meadow Nursery, Inc.
'Scrivjean' originated as the result of a cross between 'Noatraum' as the female parent and 'Shine On' as the male parent. The cross was conducted in June 1995 in Kidderminster, England with the resulting variety selected in June 1996.

United States - Patent No: PP 21,611 on 11 Jan 2011 VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 12/584,122 on 31 Aug 2009

Inventors: Scrivens; Leonard William (Kidderminster, GB)
The new Rose plant originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in 1994 of Rosa hybrida `Flower Carpet`, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 7,282, as the female, or seed, parent with Rosa hybrida `Shine On`, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Rose plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor in 1995 as a single flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled environment in Kidderminster, Worcester, United Kingdom.

Parentage:

Heidetraum × Shine On ™

Notes:

The parentage is reversed in the references.