Website/Catalog  (20 Mar 2015)  
 
Name: 'Maxim'
Synonyms: 'Joy of Life', 'Maxime', 'Tanmixa'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Maxim
HT, rb, Tantau; flowers cream white flushed carmine, deepens with age, large, dbl., high-centered, moderate fragrance; recurrent; foliage glossy, resistant ; growth strong, vigorous, well branched
Introductions: Rosen Tantau, 1993

Book  (2003)  
 
Symposium. My Favourite Hybrid Tea Roses Released in Australia since 1990.

p82-3 Jill Litchfield, Joondalup, WA. Joy of Life The centres of blooms are white with medium red outer edges, a very striking combination. The rose has good repeat flowering habit on a healthy strong-growing bush to 1.6m.

p88-4 Mr. Lloyd Tarrant, Hamersley, WA. Joy of Life, 1996. An unusual colour of red blended with white through the centre petals. Very healthy deep green foliage, which compliments the flowers well. Repeats quickly and normally one bloom per stem.

p89-6 Mr. Keith Gregory, McLaren Vale, S.A. Joy of Life, An unusual colour, it is a red blend of medium red with a white sheen in the centre of the bloom. The effect is qwite attractive. Strong bush, healthy with reasonable disease resistance.

Book  (Dec 1998)  Page(s) 329.  Includes photo(s).
 
Joy of Life (TANmixa) Large-flowered/Hybrid Tea. Tantau (Germany) 1996... The centers of the flowers are white with the outer edges of the petals margined with medium red...

Book  (1996)  Includes photo(s).
 
Photo. Joy of Life

p145-1 S. Brundrett & Sons Pty. Ltd. Some of the New Roses for 1996.
Joy of Life (PBR pending), bred by Tantau of Germany. This free-flowering Hybrid Tea type-rose is of good vigour, and will normally result in a plant of 1.6 metres. The blooms have a striking effect, with off-white petals that are margined with red; the outer petals also carry significant red blushing. The blooms are almost always borne singly with good length of stem, so it can be expected that many will disappear from the plant, to later be found beautifying the interior of the home.