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'Port Sunlight' rose Description
Photo courtesy of The Rose Geek
HMF Ratings:
30 favorite votes.
Average rating:
GOOD+.
ARS:
Apricot or apricot blend Shrub. Registration name: AUSloftyExhibition name: Port Sunlight
Class:
Shrub. (Series: English Rose Collection)
Bloom:
Apricot blend. None / no, tea fragrance. up to 90 petals. Average diameter 3.5". Large, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, cupped, old-fashioned bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Pointed, ovoid buds.
Habit:
Tall, climbing, upright. Dark green foliage. 5 to 7 leaflets.
Height: up to 4'11" (up to 150cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default). Can be used for cut flower, garden, landscape or shrub. Vigorous. can be grown as a shrub. can be trained as a climber.
Patents:
United States - Patent No: PP 19,875 on 31 Mar 2009 VIEW USPTO PATENTApplication No: 12/001,101 on 10 Dec 2007 This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of shrub rose plant named `AUSlofty`, which was originated by crossing two unnamed, unpatented varieties of Rosa hybrida....description is of 2 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Albrighton, Britain
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