Yellow Submarine

This rose's location in the garden is SW 9.
  • Classification: Shrub   
  • Flower Color:  medium yellow
  • Flower Size: 2-3 inches
  • Flower Form: rosette shape in small clusters
  • Petal Count: 32  
  • Fragrance: mild
  • Repeat Bloomer: yes
  • Foliage: deep green
  • Plant Height: 2-4 feet
  • Plant Width: 2-3 feet
  • Growth Habit: upright
  • Disease Resistant: yes 
  • Hybridizer: Ping Lim
  • Registered: 2004
  • Parentage: (‘Singin’ in the Rain’ x  R93412)
  • ARS* Rating: 7.9 (a solid to very good rose)
    *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:
  • None

Notes:
  • “Older generations of gardeners who love roses might know the name Sam McGredy. One of the most famous rose breeders of the last century, Irish-born Sam, who was the fourth breeder in his family with the same name, sadly died in 2019, aged 88. When interviewed a few years earlier he was asked what the future of roses would be. His answer? “Go ask Ping…” 

    The story of Ping Lim, America’s and perhaps the world’s, most famous modern rose breeder, is an all-American story of passion, determination, and hard work in a new country by a new arrival. It was not the new lands that inspired Ping’s love of roses, because that began when he was a child in his homeland – the south-east Asian country of Laos. One day the young Ping was taken by his parents to the highlands of that tropical country. There, in the cooler climate, he saw his first rose, and it was love at first sight.

    Growing up in a war-torn country, devastated by bombing during the Vietnam War, Ping was even more inspired when he learned that the name of that first magical rose was ‘Peace’…Hybrid Tea roses have the familiar high-centered look of a florist rose, with many petals, and Ping’s bushes often put back fragrance too, but on easy-care plants similar to the bushy landscape varieties called Shrub Roses. These were the style of the new roses he created for Bailey Nurseries. Marketed as Easy Elegance®, Ping says they have ‘Chi’, the ‘breath of life’ at the heart of Buddhist philosophy.

    These plants are ideal garden roses for all gardeners, because they look just as good in a vase as they do in a garden bed, while flowering over a long period and growing well with just some basic care.” --- “Ping Lim – a Rose Breeder for Today” at https://www.thetreecenter.com/ping-lim-a-rose-breeder-for-today/