Westerland®

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• Classification:  Shrub, (grown as climber)
• Flower Color:  apricot blend
• Flower Size:  4-5 inches
• Flower Form:  cupped, ruffled in small clusters
• Petal Count:  20-30
• Fragrance:  strong clove, spice
• Repeat Bloomer:  yes
• Foliage:  large, dark green
• Plant Height:  4-11 feet
• Plant Width:  4 feet
• Growth Habit:  tall, climbing, upright
• Disease Resistant:  very
• Hybridizer:  Reimer Kordes (Germany)
• Registered:  1976
• Parentage: ‘Friedrich Worlein’ x ‘Circus’
• ARS* Rating:  8.3 (a very good to excellent rose)
  *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:

• 1973 Certificate of Merit and Fragrance Award—New Zealand Rose Trials
• 1974 Winner ADR General Rose Trials (Germany)
• 1993 Award of Garden Merit—Royal Horticultural Society Show (Great Britain)

Notes:

• “The rose ‘Westerland’ was first bred in Germany in 1969 by Reimer Kordes, son of the famous rose breeder Wilhelm Kordes who started W. Kordes' Sons nursery in Germany. He created the ‘Westerland’ by crossing the Friedrich Worlein rose with the floribunda circus rose. The result is a rather uniquely colored rose that starts off as yellow in the center and darkens outward to shades of orange and apricot.” --- “Westerland Roses,” at 1001landscapingideas.com


• ‘Westerland’ is grown as a climber, supported by a chain, in the Laura Conyers Smith Municipal Rose Garden.