Rose ID - JFK?

Dingo2001 - Z5 Chicagoland

11 years ago

This rose was here when we moved in, guessing it was planted about 15 years ago and is probably a commonly planted rose. It is fragrant and blooms until it freezes. Please excuse the rose slugs! Thanks for your help :)

Julie

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jacqueline9CA

11 years ago

HMF says that JFK is a much more double rose than yours - 48 petals. Yours looks to me to have less than 15. Actually, I like yours better. Can you post a picture of the entire bush?

Jackie

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countrygirlsc, Upstate SC
11 years ago
That doesn't look like JFK. It is really more Hybrid tea looking. It reminds me of Margaret Merrill.
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Dingo2001 - Z5 Chicagoland
Original Author
11 years ago
last modified: 11 years ago
Here's a full pic Jackie - it's so ratty looking right now from the slugs. I think it maybe gets more shade here than it should but it keeps coming back and doing well even after the last 2 severe winters I hesitate to move it.

Country girl you are right the shape is more like Margaret Merrill (great looking rose!) but I would say mine is tinted yellow rather than pink.

I am also guessing that this may be a rose that was readily available - a lot of the flowers in the beds when we moved in looked like the were the "sun garden" type packages from Spring Hill, so it may have been a mail order rose from maybe 1995 thru 2001? as a guess on time frame, if that helps!

Thanks!
seil zone 6b MI
11 years ago
Buds on JFK are very long and slender. The buds are as beautiful as the rose...when it opens, which it refused to due here in high humidity heaven! Your buds look too short, plump and rounded.
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ozmelodye
11 years ago
It could be Ivory Fashion.
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Dingo2001 - Z5 Chicagoland
Original Author
11 years ago
Do you think it could be First Class (Class Act)?

http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.1214.3&tab=1