2009 All-America Rose Selections
The All-America Rose Selections (AARS) is a nonprofit organization that promotes the best new rose varieties. AARS award winners have been evaluated around the country in an extensive two-year testing program, which judges everything from disease resistance to flower production to color and fragrance. Three outstanding roses were chosen for 2009. Look for them in nurseries and garden centers this winter and spring.
Pink Promise is a beautiful, long-stemmed, pink hybrid tea with strong fragrance. It makes a great cut flower. The National Breast Cancer Foundation selected this rose to officially represent a continual blooming promise of compassion and awareness. For every Pink Promise plant purchased, a percentage of the sales will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation to help extend women's lives through education and early detection. Pink Promise was introduced on the Bayer Advanced Float in the 2009 Tournament of Roses Parade.
Cinco de Mayo is a free-blooming, versatile floribunda with eye-catching clusters of smoked lavender and rusty red, apple-scented flowers. It’s an excellent landscape rose with disease-resistant, glossy, deep green foliage.
Carefree Spirit is a dependable, easy-to-grow shrub rose bearing an abundance of single, cherry red blooms in huge clusters. As is true with all Carefree roses, it is an excellent disease-resistant, landscape plant with an exceptionally long bloom period.
To get your new roses off to the best possible start, plant in full sun and well-drained soil. To fertilize and protect from insects and disease, use Bayer Advanced™ All-In-One Rose & Flower Care Concentrate just as the plants begin to grow next spring. One application feeds and protects for up to six weeks.
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