Knock Out™

This rose's location in the garden is NW 5.

• Classification:   Shrub
  
• Flower Color:  red blend
• Flower Size:  2.5 inches
• Flower Form:  single to semi-double
• Petal Count:  6-10
• Fragrance:  slight tea
• Repeat Bloomer:  yes
• Foliage:  large, medium green, semi-glossy
  
• Plant Height:  4 feet
• Plant Width:  3-4 feet
• Growth Habit:  bushy, rounded
• Disease Resistant:  very
• Hybridizer:  William Radler
• Registered:  1999
• Parentage: ‘Carefree Beauty’ x ‘Razzle Dazzle’ x self x ‘Deep Purple’
• ARS* Rating:  8.3 (a very good to excellent rose)
  *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:

• 2000 AARS (All-America Rose Selections) award
• 2002 ADR Award (Germany)
• 2004 American Rose Society Members’ Choice winner
• 2018 World Federation of Rose Society Rose Hall of Fame
• Earth-Kind® designation

 
Notes:

• “It’s been 20 years since William Radler introduced the Knock Out rose (2000), a rose whose self-pruning habits, generous blooms and disease-resistant properties quickly became the industry standard. In fact, Radler recently was named one of three winners of the 2020 Award of Excellence from St. Louis-based National Garden Clubs, Inc., the largest volunteer gardening organization in the world, for his creation that revolutionized the rose-growing and gardening industries.
  

 

• The royalties earned from the discovery of the Knock Out rose — which evolved out of Radler's hobby of cultivating and hybridizing roses — made the garden possible. “When Knock Out royalties started coming in, I decided that I wanted to create the garden of my dreams, and in 2009 the construction started,” he told a reporter visiting the property in Greenfield, Wisconsin, for the first time. Work on the garden is ongoing, but the 77-year-old has plenty of help. A staff of about a dozen people work to manage the gardens and grounds.” --- “Greenfield’s Will Radler,” (July 8, 2020) at jsonline.com