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Double Delight®

The red blend colored Hybrid Tea rose named Double Delight; information provided by the Kansas City Rose Society.
This rose's location in the garden is NE 4.
This rose's location in the garden is NE 4.
  • 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
Notes:
  • “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.
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