"A carefree shrub with rosy blooms"

“The market asked for a healthy, good looking, carefree rose.” That is the reason Altman Plants started breeding the True Bloom roses. They will be officially, nationwide launched in spring 2019, but the company already released some of the True Bloom regionally such as California and Nevada last April. Trademarked as ‘Hybrid Tea Shrub Roses’, the plant is also known as the shrub with rosy blooms.

Ping Lim showed the True Bloom roses at the California Spring Trials 2018.

“Compared to other garden roses, they are particularly bred as a carefree plant”, Ping Lim explains. “The Hybrid Tea Blooms are able to tolerate stress such as: heat, drought, cold and disease without the application of fungicide.”

Altman Plants propagate all True Bloom roses by cuttings (own-root), while Woolf Rose Farm in Arizona grows the bare root plant for them. Japanese company Takamatsu Co Ltd grows, sells and trials the True Bloom Roses. The series currently consists of nine varieties. Six of them are sold in the United States, and three are sold in Japan. “Next in line are five of six new varieties in different colors, types and fragrances.”

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