'Waxwing' Rose

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'Waxwing' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Hundredpetals

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• Memory Bells
• Newport™
• POUkleioma
• POUlma

HMF Ratings:

31 favorite votes.
Average rating: EXCELLENT.

ARS:

Medium pink Shrub.
Registration name: POUlma
Exhibition name: Newport™

Origin:

Bred by L. Pernille Olesen (Denmark, before 1994). Bred by Mogens Nyegaard Olesen (Denmark, before 1994).
Introduced in United States by DeVor-Brown Rose Company Archive in 1994 as 'Waxwing'.
Introduced in Denmark by Poulsen Roser A/S in 1995 as 'Newport'.

Class:

Shrub. (Series: Towne & Country ® Series)

Bloom:

Pink. Mild fragrance. Average diameter 3". Medium, very full (41+ petals), cluster-flowered, in large clusters, old-fashioned, quartered bloom form. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Habit:

Few or no prickles/thorns, spreading. Medium, glossy, medium green foliage.

Height: 18" to 3' (45 to 90cm). Width: 3' to 5' (90 to 150cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 4b through 10b. Can be used for beds and borders, cut flower, garden or ground cover. Disease susceptibility: very disease resistant.

Patents:

Canada - Patent No: 0557 on 7 Dec 1998
Application No: 96-7255 on 30 Jan 1996

Rights surrendered on December 1, 2004.
Denomination: 'POULma'
Trade name: Newport

United States - Patent No: PP 9,261 on 29 Aug 1995 VIEW USPTO PATENT
Application No: 08/310,805 on 21 Sep 1994

Inventors: Olesen; Pernille (Fredensborg, DK), Olesen; Mogens N. (Fredensborg, DK)
The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the shrub rose class which was originated by my crossing as seed and pollen parents two unnamed, unpatented, proprietary seedlings of our creation.

Parentage:

Unnamed Seedling × Rosenholm ™

Notes:

Arena Rose Co.'s Catalog 2000 says Newport (aka 'Memory Bells', 'Waxwing') produces an abundance of old-fashioned blooms of medium pink... Parentage: Seedling x 'Rosenholm'...

Michael at Michael's Premier Roses describes this as an old garden rose look with 3-inch heavily petaled blooms...

The Roseraie at Bayfields says Waxwing is like a miniature 'English Miss' with clouds of little high-centered pink blooms...

According to Ludwigs Roses, Sean McCann was impressed with this rose when he saw it growing at their nursery and he suggested the name.