Bailey Nurseries’ new introduction “Forty Heroes Rose” (Rosa ‘BAInial’) was named to pay tribute to the forty heroes that died September 11, 2001, on United flight 93, in order to save the intended target from the same fate as the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. The rose is included in the rose collection for the Remember Me Rose Gardens, a non-profit organization that is working to set up three gardens in honor of the people who lost their lives on that fateful day. Each location--New York City, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C.--is slated to have a rose garden.
Normally I detest tea roses, disease ridden, gangly, ugly shrubs that need to be propped up with poisons to thrive. In my opinion, rose breeders should be ashamed they bred many of them in the first place; which is a subject for another article, another time.
Having said that, the new “Forty Heroes” rose bred by master hybridizer, Ping Lim of Bailey Nurseries is a tea rose I could embrace. This disease resistant tea rose grows on its own roots. Its deep yellow flowers have a petal count of 17-25 and blooms more than once over the season.
Great idea, great name!
Posted by: Les | May 29, 2008 at 06:00 PM