Perfume Delight Rose

Hybrid Tea Rose

Perfume Delight rose, a Hybrid Tea rose that produces the most fragrant roses. This All American Rose winner has beautiful pink fragrant roses. The hybrid flowers are true tea form.

The rich, dark pink blooms grow both singly and in clusters. The bush grows upright to a medium height of about 3 feet. The width is about 2 1/2 feet. The bush is well branched, and makes a nice addition to the garden.

Type Hybrid Tea Rose

Hybridizer Swim & Weeks 1973

Blooms Vivid deep pink with a light purplish tone flowers are 5" with 30-35 petals

Growth Habits grows vigorously upright, bushy, 3' x 2 1/2'

Foliage large, dark green, leathery

Fragrance sweet, spicy

Awards AARS 1974

Hardy Zone 6-9

Foliage on this beauty is a shiny deep green color, making a nice contrast to those bright pink blooms.

Blooming starts with long, large pointed buds that open to double, cup-shaped flowers that appear both in singles, and in clusters.

Plant has abundant mid-season bloom with a fair repeat.

The fragrance varies a bit, but with a name like "Perfume Delight Rose" you can be sure it is very intense!

Flowers all season long, and is a good choice for beds, borders, or a hedge. If you love Pink roses, they are very pretty in the garden, and the vase.

Considered very disease resistant.

If you garden in a colder climate (as I do, zone 5) Hybrid Tea roses might Not be a good choice for your garden. Even though they are rated for that zone, I just don't feel they are suited for the colder climates. If you decide to Give them a try anyway, you would do better, to give them as much winter protection as possible. If you live in a warmer zone, the Hybrid Tea roses are wonderful in your garden, and will give you lots of roses to cut. Check out the page on cutting roses to help your cut roses last longer.

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