Press Release

Press Release
For Immediate Release: June 6, 2014
Contacts: Karen Kemp-Docksteader
Dawn M. Miller
Sales & Marketing Manager
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661-910-2403 mobile661-772-5109 office
Weeks Roses Unveils
Star Studded Cast of Introductions
Wasco, CA, June 6, 2014 — Weeks Roses unveils star studded cast of rose
introductions at Cultivate ’14 Trade Show in Columbus, Ohio, July 12-15.
Weeks Roses proudly presents Anna’s Promise™, the first in a series of garden roses
inspired by the Primetime Emmy™ and Golden Globe™ award-winning PBS television
series Downton Abbey®. Anna’s Promise™ praises the true heart and steadfast love
that transcends the trials and tribulations endured by Downton Abbey’s character Anna
Bates. The unique color combination of golden petals with pink blush and glowing bronze
reverse is a fitting representation of Anna’s character. Elegant blossoms surrounded by glossy green foliage exude a spicy,
fruity fragrance. Strong blossom stems are ideal for bouquets in the parlor.
Take It Easy™ is a landscape rose with a purpose, a dual purpose – natural disease
resistance and fragrance make this selection a great addition to Weeks’ Easy-To-Love®
series of landscape performers. The dark green, shiny foliage makes a perfect background
to showcase the clustering buds and flowers of this classic rich red blooming machine.
Take It Easy™ is a self-cleaning, maintenance free rose making a wonderful landscape
plant for use as a hedge, border or screen planting, or as a stand-alone garden specimen.
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Not just any Cracklin’ Rosie, the Neil Diamond rose boasts humongous blossoms
of pink and white stripes with an intense floral aroma that perfumes those warm spring
and summer nights. What a coincidence that the floral father of this selection is
Rock & Roll. A great addition to any garden, the rose is a strong, classic example of a hybrid tea with upright stems for cut flowers.
It comes as no surprise America’s Sweetheart, Doris Day, provides the quintessential ideal
as role model and animal activist. The Doris Day rose is a tribute to the amazingly
talented icon whose golden qualities she most graciously shares with the public as an
advocate of animal welfare. The blooms are filled with sunshine and sweeten the garden
with fruity and sweet spice aromas. The old-fashioned blossoms are produced in beautiful
rounded clusters on vigorous, upright stems. The rich yellow color is enjoyed from bud until the last petals drop. For more
information on the Doris Day Animal League go to www.DorisDay.com.
For those gardeners, landscapers, and architects who have been waiting for a new,
improved Westerland climbing specimen, your wish is granted. Above All™ is
Westerland on steroids exhibiting old-fashioned salmon-orange blossoms with increased
petal count and flower count per cluster. The improved flower production creates a three
season show. The Westerland parentage gives Above All™ winter hardiness and allows
the rose to perform with continuous blooming from spring through fall in multiple climates.
A miniature rose with big vision, Top of the World™ with its long lasting radiating
orange and yellow bicolor flowers climbs to heights of 8 to 10 feet. Exhibiting perfect buds
and shapely clusters, this mini climber will ‘elevate’ the garden atmosphere. The delicate
flowers are 2.5” to 3” in diameter borne in small clusters, elegant and classically formed.
Top of the World™ is perfect for the urban garden or the small landscape space as
this selection presents perfectly balanced mini flowers and smaller foliage combined with a shorter mature habit and a tidy
scaffold structure for perfect training.