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'Dream Red' rose Description
'Dream Red' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Jean Marion
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
7 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Medium red Hybrid Tea.
Registration name: TWOpaul
Exhibition name: Dream Red
Origin:
Bred by Jerry F. Twomey (United States, before 1995).
Introduced in United States by Anthony Tesselaar USA, Inc. in 1999 as 'Dream Red'.
Class:
Hybrid Tea.  
Bloom:
Red, light yellow undertones, dark red reverse.  None to mild fragrance.  24 to 49 petals.  Average diameter 4".  Large, full (26-40 petals) bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Ovoid buds.  
Habit:
Short, bushy.  Large, glossy, dark green foliage.  

Height: 3' to 4' (90 to 120cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 7b and warmer.  Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.  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.  Requires spring freeze protection (see glossary - Spring freeze protection) .  Needs little care; relatively disease-free and quite hardy.  
Patents:
Australia - Patent No: AU2284P  on  1 Sep 2003
Application No: 1999/224  on  5 Aug 1999   VIEW PBR PATENT
seed parent ‘Kormelda’ syn Keepsake x pollen parent F1 between ‘Evening Star x ‘Trumpeter’ ...Hybridisation took place in Wasco, California, USA in 1995 ....Breeder: Jeremiah F. Twomey, Wasco, CA, USA.
First sold in USA in 1999. First Australian sale 2000
 
Canada - Patent No: 1115  on  14 Jan 2002
Application No: 99-2052  on  24 Dec 1998
Rights revoked on May 31, 2006.
Breeder: Jeremiah Forster Twomey, Leucadia, United States of America
 
European Union - Patent  on  1999
 
New Zealand - Patent  on  1999
 
South Africa - Application  on  2001
 
United States - Patent No: PP 11,503  on  5 Sep 2000   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 09/220,902  on  24 Dec 1998
The present invention relates to a new and distinctive cultivar of rose plant of the Hybrid Tea class, which was originated by my crossing `Keepsake` as the seed parent with an unnamed seedling (`Evening Star`.times.`Trumpeter`) as the pollen parent.
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