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Average rating: GOOD-.  

Hybrid Perpetual.

Found Rose, Hybrid Perpetual.  

Deep pink.  Mild to strong fragrance.  Average diameter 4".  Medium to large, very full (41+ petals), old-fashioned bloom form.  Spring or summer flush with scattered later bloom.  

Tall.  

USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  

Found at Denver's Fairmount Cemetery
Consider also "Irene Ford“.

John Starnes, Jr says:

"Jo An Cullen, who was once director of publicity at Fairmount Cemetery [Denver, Colorado] and who was CRUCIAL for the powers that be there embracing at all the roses and their preservation, had spotted the original as a "pink rose" and had the crew move it to the "rose garden to be" one autumn before she and I began working together. She had little idea of the concept of OGRs back then, but noticed their tenacity and chose to move roses based on their colors, including quite a few Dr. Huey root stocks.

"When she and I teamed up and she showed me her collection, I IMMEDIATELY noticed I had not only NOT seen this one pink rose anywhere else at Fairmount or Riverside Cemetery, I had not seen it ANY WHERE!

"It is very remontant, GLORIOUSLY fragrant, beautifully formed in the manner of a camellia somewhat, sets some smallish ovoid hips, is quite upright growing, vased shaped, and has nice large foliage. The blooms often exceed 4 inches in diameter there. I felt from the outset it had traits of both Bourbons and HPs, so I was intrigued when Fred Boutin proposed 'Champion of the World' as a possible ID when I sent him oodles of pics. When he and Dolores visited me in Denver one year the roses were not in bloom yet, so he saw only emerging foliage on a plant breaking dormancy. I made a clone for my yard and made sure it was in my 2001 "Care Package" of Fairmount and Riverside cuttings I mailed to Heather Campbell that year after another catastrophic herbicide incident at Fairmount...Heather prefers remontant roses for best sales and remontant it is. She has been INVALUABLE to my efforts to get the Fairmount and Riverside roses cloned, protected and distributed.

"Jo An readily and proudly accepted my proposed study name of "Jo An's Pink Perpetual" ...

"Jo An's Pink Perpetual" is a lovely rose that I hope finds homes in many gardens and is someday truly ID'd. I have a small plant of it here in Tampa but it is not happy and I feel will fail....to have needed winter dormancy replaced by hordes of nematodes is more than it can take I suspect."