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'Kilmore Rose' Description
'Kilmore Rose' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Simon Voorwinde
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
5 favorite votes.  
ARS:
Deep pink Hybrid Rugosa.
Registration name: Kilmore Rose
Exhibition name: Kilmore Rose
Origin:
Bred by Leon Collins (Australia, 2003).
Introduced in Australia by Silkies Rose Farm in 2003 as 'Kilmore Rose'.
Class:
Hybrid Rugosa, Shrub.  
Bloom:
Deep pink.  None to mild fragrance.  17 to 25 petals.  Average diameter 4".  Medium, double (17-25 petals), in small clusters bloom form.  Occasional repeat later in the season.  
Habit:
Medium, bushy.  Medium, glossy, dark green foliage.  

Height: up to 4' (up to 120cm).  
Growing:
USDA zone 6b through 9b (default).  Can be used for garden, hedge, landscape, shrub or specimen.  Remove spent blooms to encourage re-bloom.  Do not spray.  Needs little care; relatively disease-free and quite hardy.  Prune dead wood.  Resist the urge to prune this rose too heavily -- it doesn't like it!.  
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