John Cabot

This rose's location in the garden is NW 08.
  • Classification:   Hybrid Kordesii, (grown as climber)
  • Flower Color:  medium red
  • Flower Size:  2.5 inches
  • Flower Form:  flowers in clusters, opens flat
  • Petal Count:  40
  • Fragrance:  moderate
  • Repeat Bloomer:  yes, most abundant  in early summer
  • Foliage:  light green
  • Plant Height:  5-8 feet
  • Plant Width:  10 feet
  • Growth Habit:  vigorous, upright
  • Disease Resistant:  yes, in cool climates
  • Hybridizer:  Dr. Felicitas Svedja (Canada)
  • Registered:  1978
  • Parentage:  ‘Rosa kordesii’ x seedling
  • ARS* Rating:  8.7 (a very good to excellent rose)
    *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:
  • None
 
Notes:
  • “This rose, in the Canadian Explorer series, is named after Italian explorer and adventurer John Cabot (c. 1450 – c. 1499). Cabot is credited with the 1497 discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England. The official position of the Canadian and United Kingdom governments is that he landed on the island of Newfoundland.” --- “John Cabot” at highcountryroses.com

  • “Hybrid Kordesii Roses (HKor), is a series of shrub roses developed by Kordes in the 1940s to early 1950s. The House of W. Kordes Shone, a German nursery, is a family-owned company, spanning four generations, and 100 years of rose breeding. Wilhelm Kordes founded the nursery in 1887. Later he was joined by his two sons, Wilhelm and Hermann. In 1941, the second-generation Wilhelm planted seeds from a Max Graf (HRg). Was it sheer luck, mutation or expert hybridization skills? One of the seedlings turned out to be a tetraploid, 28 chromosomes instead of the usual 14, rendering it capable of crossing with modern roses.

  • The rose was a new strain, designated Rosa kordesii. Crossing R. kordesii with other modern roses gave rise to the series of shrubs called Hybrid Kordesii (HKor). Later in the 1970-80s, Dr. Felicitas Svejda, Canadian horticulturist, frequently utilized R.kordesii as a parent plant, developing the Canadian Explorer Series of roses.” --- “Hybrid Kordesii” by Linda Kimmel at rose.org