The Year's Best New Roses to be Featured on the Bayer Advanced Float
The All-American 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 2007, and they will be featured on the Bayer Advanced Float in this year's Tournament of Roses. Look for them in rose catalogs, nurseries and garden centers this winter and spring.
'Strike It Rich' is a glorious, deep golden yellow grandiflora swirled with a touch of red. The double flowers have an intense, spicy fragrance and are born in clusters on long stems that are great for cutting. The tall, vigorous bush has excellent disease resistance.
'Rainbow Knock Out' is the latest addition to the versatile family of Knockout roses. Touted as even more disease-resistant than its parent 'Knock Out', this small shrub rose bears single, deep coral pink blooms with yellow centers. Generous-blooming and compact, 'Rainbow Knock Out' is an excellent landscape rose and perfect for containers.
'Moondance' is a lovely, white-flowering floribunda with a delightfully, spicy fragrance. The large flower clusters are held above very dark green, disease-resistant foliage. The upright plant is free-blooming and an exceptional landscape plant.
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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