Chrysler Imperial

This is one beautiful, heavily scented red rose. DH picked this one out at a local garden center a few years back. The color attracted him, and when I got a good whiff of the scent, that was it. The petals looks like rich velvet. If you buy this, you won't be disappointed.

Below is a little info on this wonderful rose.

One of my favorites ~ FlowerLady

Guide to Antique Roses

Hybrid Tea Rose - Chrysler Imperial

1952

This rose was one of the first roses to be involved in the promotional marketing of a consumer product, the Chrysler Imperial car. We can only hope the cars bearing this name performed as well. Lovely, long pointed buds open to globular flowers of dark velvety red. The 4-5 inch blooms contain a strong citrus scent . A must in any of our flower arrangements, we enjoy the striking color and the heavenly fragrance. The bush is nicely shaped with semi-glossy foliage.

Rose Gardening Made Easy

The buds are elegantly tapered and open into high-centered flowers up to 5 inches across, with a rich, deep, velvety red color. The strongly scented flowers start blooming in late spring and repeat throughout the summer, with another good flush of blooms in the fall.

The foliage is semi-glossy and deep green with thorny canes. The rose grows to 3-6 feet tall and about 3 feet wide, showing more growth in warmer climates.

This rose plant has a fairly stiff, upright form, so it looks best if planted in groups of three or more, for a more bushier look. The fragrant, long-stemmed rose flowers make excellent cut flowers, so you might want to grow these roses in a cutting garden with good sun exposure; a sunny site is a must, as it is not shade tolerant.

Dave's Garden

Propagation Methods:
From herbaceous stem cuttings
From woody stem cuttings
From softwood cuttings
From semi-hardwood cuttings
From hardwood cuttings
By grafting
By budding
By simple layering
By air layering
By tip layering

These next two pictures are taken outside this morning, before I picked it to bring inside. The scent has been filling the air of our little cottage all day long. I can just imagine what a vase full of these would be like. Wonderful!

These next pictures are as the rose is opening, a few hours apart. I'll try to remember to count the total number of petals this has. There should be between 40-50 petals.

I hope to take a picture in the morning to show how much more it will have opened.

That's it for tonight.

Hope you all get a good night's sleep, and wake up rested, and ready to head into the new day.

FlowerLady

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How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!

how great is the sum of them!

If I should count them,

they are more in number than the sand:

when I awake, I am still with thee.

Psa 139: 17 & 18