Hybrid Tea Rose 'Pink Promise'

2009 AARS winner.

I was very disappointed with the color of this rose. It is not pink, but rather cream with a slight tinge of light pink at the edges. It ...Read Moredoes not look at all like the photo of the J & P catalog, which shows a rose with a definite pink color. I thought it might have been mislabeled, but J & P is now being sold / reorganized and there is nobody to complain to. It is a cream rose and not what I wanted.

I dunno if it is due to the heat in my area but, it should be called "Peach Promise". I had hoped it would be a pink rose but it is more ...Read Moreof a peach... then as the bloom ages, it turns almost completely white.

It's a nice bush... has nice dark glossy green leaves but, it isn't what I expected. Maybe I am doing something wrong or it just doesn't perform as well at temperatures high enough to bake a cake. I am waiting for the cooler weather to make a full assement.

It is quite resistant to disease... the himidity is out of control around here. Almost all of the hybrid teas I have (even after treatment) has black black spot... this one, not a sign of it. So it definitely has that going for it... and it almost always has a bloom on it... not a whole lot of fragrance though. I knew that in the beginning but had hoped it would make up for it by pumping out pretty baby pink blooms. **still waiting**

UPDATE: After some cooler weather and quite a few blooms, my original findings still stand. This is a nice rose for a good cause... however, it is not what I wanted at all. I wanted a baby pink hybrid tea with a darker pink center... this is more of a white rose with a peachy pink center. The search continues... maybe I will cross it with another pink rose I have and see what comes out?

Due to the untimely death of a fellow gardener I received this rose, which is a strong grower with faultless foliage. The original label ...Read Moreon the plant indicates it was patented with the proceeds from the patent to benefit Brest Cancer Research. Al