'Firestar' Rose

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'Firestar' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Rosaplant

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• Easy Does It ®
• Eazy Time
• HARpageant
• Steinfurther Abendsonne ®

HMF Ratings:

99 favorite votes.
Average rating: EXCELLENT.

ARS:

Orange-pink Floribunda.
Registration name: HARpageant
Exhibition name: Easy Does It ®

Origin:

Bred by Harkness & Co. (United Kingdom, before 2006). Bred by Philip A. Harkness (United Kingdom, before 2006). Bred by Robert B. Harkness (United Kingdom, before 2006).
Introduced in United States by Bailey Nurseries in 2010 as 'Easy Does It'.
Introduced in United States by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Inc. in 2010 as 'Easy Does It'.

Class:

Floribunda, Hybrid Tea.

Bloom:

Orange-pink. [Apricot - pink.]. Flowers mango orange suffusing to pink. Mild, fruity, tea fragrance. 20 to 32 petals. Average diameter 3.5". Large, very double, borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, high-centered to cupped, open, ruffled, scalloped bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Habit:

Medium, bushy, rounded, upright. Medium, glossy, dark green foliage. 3 to 5 leaflets.

Height: 39" to 4¼' (100 to 130cm). Width: up to 30" (up to 75cm).

Growing:

Can be used for beds and borders, cut flower or garden. Vigorous. Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.

Patents:

United States - Patent No: PP 22,587 on 20 Mar 2012 VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 12/925,119 on 14 Oct 2010

Inventors: Harkness; Robert (Letchworth, GB), Harkness; Philip (Letchworth, GB)
It has an undisseminated seedling of my creation as its seed parent with the following genetic origin (Queen Charlotte.times.Della Balfour) and as its pollen parent the variety known as `SCRivluv` (not patented)..... description is of 3 to 4 year-old rose plants of the new variety grown outdoors in Pomona, Calif. in the month of September.

Ploidy:

Tetraploid

Parentage:

seed:	Queen Charlotte × Della Balfour (Large Flowered Climber, Harkness, 1994)
pollen:	Baby Love (miniature, Scrivens before 1991)

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