Apple Blossom (Rose)

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Apple Blossom
Synonyms 'Blush Rambler'
Apple Blossom
group Rambler
breeder Luther Burbank
Launch 1932
ancestry

Cross of
'Dawson' × Rosa multiflora

List of rose varieties

The rose variety 'Apple Blossom' (syn. 'Blush Rambler') is a pale pink rambler rose that was bred by Luther Burbank and only launched on the American market six years after his death in 1932. The rose variety comes bred by the 1888 Jackson T. Dawson, fuchsia pink multiflora - Hybrid 'Dawson' and an unknown tuft rose ( Rosa multiflora ) from. The breed was registered with the American Patent Office on June 30, 1932 by Burbank's widow, Elizabeth Water Burbank, and registered as Patent No. PP65 on May 16, 1933 .

Training and location

The tall, creeping rose 'Apple Blossom' forms a strong, robust shrub. The plant is about 300 cm to a maximum of 500 cm high and 150 to 300 cm wide. The delicate pink flowers, which are arranged in numerous large clusters and have a lighter center, are made up of five to eight, mostly slightly curled petals . They form a 3 to 5 cm large, simple rose blossom. The initially bright pink rose bud later opens into a bowl-shaped to flat, somewhat pale pink flower, in the middle of which the light yellow stamens become visible.

The rose variety has 4 to 7 cm large, sometimes wrinkled leaves. The young foliage initially appears light green on long, flexible shoots that are only sparsely covered with spines . Later, the matt, dark green foliage forms an intense color contrast to the numerous pink-white flower clusters. The rose variety 'Apple Blossom' is characterized by a light, fruity scent.

The rose variety that blooms once is extremely hardy ( USDA climate zone 5b to 9b). It blooms in early and midsummer with an occasional second bloom and is resistant to the well-known rose diseases.

The rose 'Apple Blossom' prefers well-drained soil in sunny to partially shaded locations, but can also tolerate shade. The rose is often grown as a climbing rose up to a height of 5 meters. It is suitable for planting old trees, planting pergolas , rose arches, near-natural gardens and cottage gardens , as a background planting of flower beds and for greening walls. Due to the large number of flowers with exposed stamens, this rambler rose is particularly valuable for bees .

The rose variety is found in many rosaries and historical gardens, including in the rosarium of the city of Uetersen (Schleswig-Holstein), in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe (Hesse), in the rose garden of the Old Cemetery in Erndtebrück (North Rhine-Westphalia), in the Rosenpark Reinhausen (Lower Saxony) , in the Parc de Bagatelle (France), in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (New York), in the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden (California), in the Carla Fineschi Foundation Rose Garden and Museo Giardino della Rosa Antica (Italy) and in the Victoria State Rose Garden ( Australia) shown.

Naming

Because of the similarities between the rose blossom and an apple blossom , the well-known fruit and ornamental tree breeder Luther Burbank named one of his few rose varieties 'Apple Blossom'.

The name Apple Blossom is also used for numerous other rose breeds, including a light pink shrub rose (also known as 'Sommermelodie', 'Appleblossom Flower Carpet', 'Mareva' and 'NOAmel'), which Werner Noack cultivated in 1997 Light pink tea hybrid bred by Cooling & Son in England in 1906 , for a light pink polyantha rose bred by Wirtz & Eicke in Germany in 1907 and for a pink and white shrub rose 'Chip's Apple Blossom' bred by Frank L. Rietmuller in Australia in 1959.

See also

literature

  • Peter Beales et al .: Rosen. Encyclopedia. The most important wild roses and over 4,000 garden roses . Ed .: Gordon Cheers. Könemann, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8290-1954-8 , p. 87 (Original title: Botanica's Roses. The Encyclopedia of Roses . Milsons Point 1998.).
  • August Jäger: Rosenlexikon , Leipzig 1936, p. 31.
  • John Horace McFarland: Modern Roses , American Rose Society (Ed.), Volume 2, 1940, p. 11.
  • Thomas Cairns: Modern Roses , American Rose Society (Ed.), Volume 10, 1993, ISBN 0-9636340-0-3 , p. 24.

Web links

Commons : Pink 'Apple Blossom'  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HelpMeFind: 'Apple Blossom' Rose. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Penny Martin (Ed.): Botanica: Rosen . Könemann, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-8331-2009-6 , p. 113 .
  3. ↑ Natural garden roses . ( gartenfreunde.de [accessed on March 17, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Climbing rose 'Apple Blossom'. Retrieved March 21, 2018 .
  5. ↑ HelpMeFind: 'Apple Blossom' rose gardens. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ HelpMeFind: Rose Search. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .