US: Pan American launches new line of disease-resistant roses

If you were to ask people who purport to hate roses exactly what it is they dislike about these popular flowering shrubs and climbers, most of them would complain about the constant cultural problems. However, there is some hope, and it comes from Pan American Nursery, which supplies local garden centres with a new line of disease-resistant roses called Clean ‘n Easy.

These Kordes roses have been rigorously tested for their beautiful flower display, excellent vigour and, above all, disease resistance.

There are seven cultivars in this collection, including three floribundas and four hybrid teas:

‘Archbishop Desmond Tutu’ (red)
‘Poseidon’ (lavender)
‘Brothers Grimm’ (pink/orange blend)
‘Wedding Bells’ (pink); ‘Grande Amore’ (red)
‘Souvenir de Baden Baden’ (pink)
‘Winter Sun’ (yellow)

These come to us from W. Kordes Sohne (W. Kordes’ Sons), a family run German nursery with 125 years of experience breeding disease-resistant roses. This dynasty began in 1887 with Wilhelm Kordes, who started a rose breeding nursery in northern Germany.

Today, W. Kordes Sohne is being run by the fourth generation, but they have kept to their core commitment of producing disease resistant varieties, as they have not sprayed their test garden roses at all for the past 20 years, just so they can see the true results of their breeding.

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