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2001
AARS Winners
The 2001 All-American Rose Selection
(AARS) winners are stunning beauties
that will make your garden the envy
of the neighborhood. Since 1938, the
AARS (a non-profit association of
rose growers) has placed its stamp
on outstanding new rose varieties.
Judges base their scores on over a
dozen traits including color, fragrance,
disease 
resistance, flower form, vigor, hardiness,
growth habit and foliage. Here are
the 2001 AARS winners:
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Glowing Peace™
Named after its grandparent Peace,
the world's most renowned rose,
it features large, round buds
that open to reveal full blooms
with golden yellow and cantaloupe
orange blended petals. Deep, glossy
green foliage serves as a backdrop
for the luminous blooms and gives
way to stunning burgundy fall
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Sun
Sprinkles™ Only the
fifth miniature ever to win AARS
honors and the first since 1993.
A shining example of disease resistance,
it shows off bright yellow blooms
set against a dark green foliage.
Its high, pointed oval buds spiral
open to reveal 2" petite double
blooms with 25 to 30 petals. The
moderate spicy fragrance features
overtones of musk. Sun Sprinkles
grows 18" to 24" tall and is ideal
for lining walkways, accenting
formal rose beds and growing in
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Marmalade
Skies™ The Beatles sang
of a world with Marmalade Skies
- and now your garden can include
a hint of what the Fab Four was
singing about. Throughout the
blooming season, brilliant tangerine
orange blooms and medium olive
green satiny foliage put on a
constant show of color. This plant
grows to 3 feet by 3 feet, making
it the perfect rose for a hedge,
and produces clusters of 5 to
8 blooms on each strong stem with
21/2" to 3" double blooms of 17
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the time to plant bare-root roses.
You can save up to 50% by purchasing
bare-root roses versus waiting for
these same roses in planters. And
bareroot plants usually adapt better
to your garden than plants transplanted
from containers because they only
have to adjust to one type of soil...
yours! Plus, the selection is fantastic.
For example at Fred Meyer Garden Centers,
you'll find over 75 varieties to choose
from. Click here for our 3-Step-No-Fail-Plan
for Planting Bareroot Roses.
Visit
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and start growing award-winning rose
plants!
While
much of the information in these tips
is applicable in several gardening
zones/climates, some of the plants
and timing suggested are best suited
to the Northwest, generally in the
mild/wet growing regions found along
the I-5 corridor. You should make
appropriate adjustments or consult
local gardening experts in regions
whose climates differ from this area
of the Northwest.
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