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Named for Jack Harkness' niece… These flowers come fast and furious; in my southern California climate they are usually only interrupted by the annual pruning. The well-shaped bush grows tall and upright and is densely foliated in semi-glossy, medium green leaves… resistant to everything but light powdery mildew when conditions are right. It takes a little while for 'Anne Harkness' to produce its four-foot canes terminating in large trusses of double, ruffled, deep apricot-amber blooms… no fragrance to speak of … one of the most exciting and satisfying floribundas I've ever grown.

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Very well-clothed in dark green, matte leaves which have been very resistant to disease … the plant can grow tall, up to six feet … and can spread to eight feet across … always in bloom … The cupped, inch and a half to two-inch flowers are very double and are a dark, rich, red-violet velvet… The fragrance … is a delicious, spicy, strong cinnamon that carries very well on moist, warm air… Many smallish, round orange hips are formed over the course of the year … It roots extremely easily and may be trained as a single trunk tree rose grown on its own roots. [Rupert has] found it to be an excellent rootstock and a prolific parent. Its breeding possibilities appear limitless. 'Cardinal Hume' resulted from a very involved line of orange and lavender floribundas and hybrid teas mixed with shrubs and R. californica.

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Named for the Paris newspaper … Imagine a two and a half foot tall mound of smallish, dark green leaves smothered in two-inch, semi-double, bright dark blue-violet flowers that never stops blooming. This is what polyanthas were meant to look like… easily propagated from cuttings and grows very well on its own root… As with most violet roses, the color can vary in intensity depending on the heat, light, and feeding, but it is geneuinely one of the most perfect of the violet roses… This is the first of this group bred from an interesting mixture of modern hybrid teas, florbundas, and R. californica.

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It has consistently grown to seven feet in [Rupert's California] desert garden, with a spread of about four… bred from R. californica. The bloom in continuous and arrives in clusters of up to seventy flowers. These are open, wavy bicolors of tangerine and pale yellow softening to rich peach and white with a sweet, clean fragrance… smallish, rounded, deep blue-green leaves.