Queen Elizabeth®

This rose's location in the garden is SW 4.
  • Classification:  Grandiflora
  • Flower Color:  medium pink
  • Flower Size:  3.5-4 inches
  • Flower Form:  high-centered to cupped
  • Petal Count:  38
  • Fragrance:  moderate
  • Repeat Bloomer:  yes
  • Foliage:  dark green, glossy, leathery
  • Plant Height:  5-7 feet
  • Plant Width:   3 feet
  • Growth Habit:  vigorous, upright
  • Disease Resistant:  no
  • Hybridizer:  Dr. Walter Lammerts
  • Registered:  1954
  • Parentage:  (‘Charlotte Armstrong’ x ‘Floradora’)
  • ARS* Rating 8.1  (asolid to very good)
    *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:
  • 1954 Gold Medal Portland
  • 1955 President’s Int. Trophy
  • 1955 AARS (All American Rose Selections) award
  • 1957 American Rose Society Gold Medal 
  • 1968 Golden Rose of the Hague 
  • 1978 Hall of Fame WFRS
  • 1979 World’s Favorite Rose
  • 2015 Award of Excellence for Best Established Rose 

Notes:
  • “Grandiflora” is a term coined in 1954 to describe a new rose developed from a cross between hybrid tea and floribunda roses. ‘Queen Elizabeth’ was the very first entry in the grandiflora class.” ---(University of Illinois Extension “Grandiflora”).

  • “‘Queen Elizabeth’ was named in honor of Queen Elizabeth II when she ascended the British throne in 1952. The stock parents of ‘Queen Elizabeth’ are the hybrid tea, Rosa ‘Charlotte Armstrong’ and the floribunda, ‘Floradora’. ‘Queen Elizabeth’ has been used to hybridize 30 new rose cultivars. Several color sports of ‘Queen Elizabeth’ have been introduced, including ‘Yellow Queen Elizabeth’, (1964) and ‘White Queen Elizabeth’, (aka ‘Blanc Queen Elizabeth’), (1965). The climbing sport, ‘Climbing Queen Elizabeth’, (1957) is a very popular, vigorous climbing rose.” --- (Wilkipedia “Rosa ‘Queen Elizabeth’”). retrieved January 26, 2021.