Rose Aqua!

Lilac-pink ovoid buds about 3.5cm (1.4”) open into beautiful high-centered mauve or lilac-pink flowers. Flowers are consistently symmetrical, double, 35-40 petals count in average, diameter 10-15 cm (4-6”) and may last up to 2 weeks. It may produce the flowers year-round under greenhouse conditions.

In the Netherlands and at a planting density of seven plants per square meter, productivity is about 180 to 200 flowering stems per square meter per year.

The plant has upright growth habit and somewhat outwardly spreading. Average branch length is about 85 cm (2.8 ft). Stems initially grow outwardly before coming erect. Branches are smooth, glabrous, with very few thorns.

Unfortunately we do not have information about the origin of the name of this rose.

This variety originated from the cross-pollination made by the Petrus Nicolaas Johannes Schreurs in 1997 of wo unnamed proprietary selections, not patented. The cultivar was discovered and selected as a flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-polination in a controlled environment in De Kwakel, The Netherlands. Since 1998, asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by cuttings in De Kwakel, The Netherlands has shown that the unique features of the new cultivar are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.

USDA zone 6 and warmer