'AUSwalker' Rose

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'AUSwalker' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Kathy Strong

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• Gartenarchitekt Günther Schulze
• The Pilgrim ®

HMF Ratings:

85 favorite votes.
Average rating: GOOD+.

ARS:

Medium yellow Shrub.
Registration name: AUSwalker
Exhibition name: The Pilgrim ®

Origin:

Bred by David C. H. Austin (1926-2018) (United Kingdom, before 1991).

Class:

Shrub. (Series: English Rose Collection)

Bloom:

Yellow, lighter outer petals. Mild, spice, tea fragrance. up to 170 petals. Average diameter 2.75". Medium, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, cupped-to-flat, rosette bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season. Pointed, ovoid, rounded buds.

Habit:

Upright. 7 leaflets.

Height: 42" to 10' (105 to 305cm). Width: 5' (150cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 5b through 10b. Can be trained as a climber. Disease susceptibility: susceptible to Mildew.

Patents:

Australia - Application No: 1995/147 on 1995 VIEW PBR PATENT

European Union - Patent No: 329 on 2 Aug 1996
Application No: 19950459 on 24 Jul 1995

First commercialisation in EU: May 1, 1995; outside EU: 01/01/1993
expiry of protection on September 1, 2016.

New Zealand - Patent No: 958 on 19 May 1995

United States - Patent No: PP 8,678 on 12 Apr 1994 VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 07/954,960 on 30 Sep 1992

Observations made from specimens grown in a garden environment in Albrighton, Wolverhampton, England in August 1991.

Parentage:

Graham Thomas × Yellow Button ®

Notes:

Josef Distl grows this rose in Germany where it is called Gartenarchitekt Günther Schulze, named for the designer of the display gardens at Rosen Jensen at Glücksburg, Germany.