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'Oso Easy Honey Bun' rose Description
'Oso Easy Honey Bun' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Woodbury, Celeste
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
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.
Notes:
The parentage is reversed in the references.