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'Limelight' rose References
Website/Catalog (23 Jan 2015) Registered Name: 'Korikon' Synonyms: Golden Medaillon® ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Limelight HT, ly, 1985, Kordes, W.; flowers lemon-yellow, large, 35 petals, high-centered, intense, almond fragrance; recurrent ; foliage medium size, dark, semi-glossy; upright, bushy, spreading growth [Peach Melba × seedling]. Roses in Review: Garden Rating: 8.0 Exhibition Rating: Introductions: Medaillon, W. Kordes Sohne. Limelight, Ludwig's Roses, 1984, South Africa
Website/Catalog (Nov 1997) Page(s) 7. Limelight Hybrid Tea. Kordes 1984... dark lemon yellow; good exhibitor; hardy to Zone 6...
Book (Mar 1995) Page(s) 16-17. Includes photo(s). Limelight (KORikon, 'Golden Medallion'). Hybrid Tea. Kordes (Germany) 1985... Although never large by hybrid tea standards, the glowing, soft yellow blooms of 'Limelight' are often perfectly formed... happiest in half-shade...
Book (1994) Page(s) 135. Limelight Description... bred as part of the Kordes cut-flower operation... light yellow... Ohio writer and grower, Peter Schneider [says]: 'Limelight is more than a rose, it is a genuine phenomenon. It wins Challenge Classes, it wins Queens. It wins Queen of the District Show even when it has no foliage. Catching the eye of the judges because its colour is anything but light, 'Limelight' coasts to victory with form that is perfectly symmetrical but seldom classically high centred.'...
Book (Apr 1993) Page(s) 315. Limelight Hybrid Tea, light yellow, 1984, (KORikon; 'Golden Medallion'); 'Peach Melba' x Seedling; Kordes, W. Description.
Book (Feb 1993) Page(s) 194. Includes photo(s). Limelight Large-flowered hybrid tea. Parentage: 'Peach Melba' x Seedling. (aka 'Golden Medallion'; KORikon) Germany 1985. Description and cultivation. Flowers: medium yellow...
Book (1993) Page(s) 28. Ross Heathcote, New Roses in Victoria. Limelight A very free flowering refined yellow rose with an attractive green cast with about 35 petals and always in bloom. A good compact grower which is disease free. An excellent garden rose. Very fragrant.
Book (1993) Page(s) 186. Includes photo(s). ('Limelight', 'Golden Medallion') A Hybrid Tea, popular in the southern hemisphere. Kordes (Germany) 1985.
Book (1986) Page(s) 19. Roy and Heather Rumsey, NSW. Some Of The New Roses For 1986. Limelight (Kordes Korikon) Has attracted a lot of attention in the garden. It is a yellow with quite a soft greenish tinge. The blooms stand well on firm stems, mostly solitary. Fragrant.
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