Double Delight®
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This rose's location in the garden is NE 4.
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- Classification: Hybrid Tea
- Flower Color: red blend
- Flower Size: 4-6 inches
- Flower Form: high-centered, borne mostly singly
- Petal Count: 30-35
- Fragrance: intense spicy
- Repeat Bloomer: yes
- Foliage: large, medium green
- Plant Height: 3-5 feet
- Plant Width: 2-5 feet
- Growth Habit: upright
- Disease Resistant: no
- Hybridizer: Swim and Ellis
- Registered: 1976
- Parentage: ‘Granada’ x ‘Garden Party’
- ARS* Rating: 8.3 (very good to excellent)
*American Rose Society Rating
Awards:
- 1976 Gold Medals in Baden-Baden and Rome
- 1976 Fragrance awards in Geneva
- 1977 AARS (All-America Rose Selections) award
- 1985 World Rose Hall of Fame
- 1986 James Alexander Gamble Fragrance Medal – Learn More
- “The most popular mass-market roses of the eighties were voluptuous ‘doubles,’ having flowers with at least twenty-five petals each. Responding to the expansive mood of the decade when pouf skirts, cabbage rose-festooned curtains, and multiple financing were all the rage, growers strove to produce full-blown varieties flaunting names like ‘Double Delight,’ ‘Double Star,’ and ‘Double Perfection.’” --- Brenner & Scanniello, (A Rose by Any Name, page 252).
- “The red color of ‘Double Delight’ is the product of ultraviolet light on natural pigments in the petals. If the plant is grown in a greenhouse, which blocks ultraviolet light, the petals will be white in color.” --- (Wikipedia, “Rosa ‘Double Delight’") retrieved January 2021.
