'WAVES' Rose

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'WAVES' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Cliff's High Desert Garden Archival Dec, 2011 last updated 101812

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• Admiral (hybrid tea, Dickson 1944)

HMF Ratings:

32 favorite votes.

ARS:

Medium pink Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: WAVES
Exhibition name: WAVES

Origin:

Bred by Alexander (Sandy) Dickson III (1893-1975) (United Kingdom, 1944).
Introduced in United States by Jackson & Perkins Co. (Newark, NY) in 1944 as 'WAVES'.
Introduced in Australia by Hazlewood Bros. Pty. Ltd. in 1949 as 'Admiral'.

Class:

Hybrid Tea.

Bloom:

Rose-pink. Strong, old rose fragrance. 35 petals. Average diameter 4.5". Large, double (17-25 petals), cupped bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Growing:

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default). Spring Pruning: Remove old canes and dead or diseased wood and cut back canes that cross. In warmer climates, cut back the remaining canes by about one-third. In colder areas, you'll probably find you'll have to prune a little more than that.

Patents:

United States - Patent No: PP 638 on 5 Sep 1944 VIEW USPTO PATENT

Parentage:

Unnamed Seedling × Lucie Marie

Notes:

WAVES is the acronym for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services, which was created in 1942 as a women's division of the U.S. Navy. WAVES were assigned shore duty to free men to fight in World War II.