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'Fiery Hit ®' rose Description
'Fiery Hit ®' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Marianna Malik
Availability:
Commercially available
Synonyms:
HMF Ratings:
6 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Orange or orange-red Mini-Flora.
Registration name: POUlfiry
Exhibition name: Fiery Hit ®
Origin:
Bred by L. Pernille Olesen (Denmark, before 1991). Bred by Mogens Nyegaard Olesen (Denmark, before 1991).
Introduced in Denmark by Poulsen Roser A/S in 1998 as 'Fiery Hit'.
Class:
Mini-Flora, Patio.   (Series: PatioHit ® Collection)  
Bloom:
Orange or orange-red.  None to mild fragrance.  20 to 25 petals.  Average diameter 1.5".  Small to medium, semi-double to double, cluster-flowered bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  
Habit:
Bushy.  Reddish-purple foliage.  

Height: 16" to 26" (40 to 65cm).  Width: 2' (60cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 7b and warmer.  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) .  Can be grown in the ground or in a container (container requires winter protection).  
Patents:
Canada - Patent No: 1172  on  17 May 2002
Application No: 98-1291  on  27 Mar 1998
Rights surrendered on June 7, 2011.
Denomination: 'POULfiry'
Trade name: Fiery Hit
 
New Zealand - Application No: ROS886  on  30 Jun 2004
Withdrawn. Agent changed, Sep 21, 2019
 
United States - Patent No: PP 12,484  on  26 Mar 2002   VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 09/277,237  on  26 Mar 1999
Inventors: Olesen; L. Pernille (Fredensborg, DK), Olesen; Mogens N. (Fredensborg, DK)
The present invention constitutes a new a new and distinct variety of garden rose plant which originated from a controlled crossing between two unnamed seedlings (non-patented). ....`POULfiry` was selected in the spring, 1991 by the inventors as a single plant from the progeny of the aforementioned hybridization.
Notes:
According to the Canadian Plant Breeders' Rights Office, an application (No. 98-1291) for POULfiry was filed by Poulsen Roser ApS.