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Shrub Roses post 1950
'Freckles'.   Click a photo to enlarge it.  back to list

Freckles B Grant
Ref No: 6316
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colour: Strong Pink
height: Average Shrub 2.5 - 5 feet (0.75 m - 1.5 m)
scent: Slight or No Scent
introduction: 1976 - 1985
usda zone: Zone 4 (-27ºC/-16.6ºF to -33ºC/-27.4ºF)
flowers: Fully Double
repeat: Repeat Flowering

A Shrub rose introduced by Dr. Griffith Buck in 1976. Shallow cupped pink blooms, slight scent, growth upright bushy, continuous repeat through summer until first frost. The urn-shaped buds turn into shallow, heavily stippled petals on the inner surface with dark claret rose. The flowers appear in clusters of 5-10. These are the hardy roses raised in Iowa, USA,by Dr. Buck. Parentage; ‘Tickled Pink’ x ‘Country Music’. Photographed at the Heirloom Rose Nursery in Oregon by Bill Grant.


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