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Knock Out™

The red blend colored shrub rose named Knock Out.
This rose's location in the garden is NW 5.
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
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