Sunset Celebration™

1998 AARS Winner

( cv. Fryxotic, Warm Wishes) Pat.# 9,718

Hybrid Tea - Creamy apricot amber blend

Sometimes sunset hues are apricot burnished with cream, sometimes amber orange blushed with warm pink and sometimes a clear warm rich pink. It just depends on which sunset. The ‘sunset’ in this case is the famed Sunset Magazine celebrating its 100th anniversary with this striking award winner. All these colors can come forth from this attractive well-formed Hybrid Tea, depending on your locale. No matter where it’s grown, though, the plant fills out beautifully, full of clean green foliage and long stemmed blossoms. A truly international rose, it’s already picked up Gold Medals at The Hague, Belfast and La Roeulx (Belgium), Silver Medals at Genoa and Monza, plus the RINZ winner in New Zealand.

Height / Habit: Medium height, upright
Bloom / Size: Large, full
Petal count: 35 to 40
Parentage: Pot O’ Gold x seedling
Fragrance: Moderate fruity
Hybridizer: Fryer – 1998
Comments: Deeper colors in cooler conditions. The 100th anniversary rose of Sunset Magazine

Sunset Celebration offers one of the greatest varieties of colors in one flower as I have seen: is it apricot, peach, light pink?? This rose is aptly named, for it does display all of the colors of the Pacific Northwest Sunset. The bush is upright and healthy with very good disease resistance. The plant looks great solo or enmasse. I heartly recommend it to any one growing roses. Michael Rubrecht