2008 All-America Rose Selections

The All-American Rose Selections (AARS) is a nonprofit organization that promotes the best new rose varieties. AARS award winners have been evaluated around the country in an extensive two-year testing program, which judges everything from disease resistance to flower production to color and fragrance. Two outstanding roses were chosen for 2008 and were featured on the Bayer Advanced float in this year’s Tournament of Roses®. Look for them in nurseries and garden centers this winter and spring

‘Dream Come True’ (pictured) is a beautiful, bushy grandiflora with large yellow flowers blushed with red. The blooms are long-stemmed, ideal for cutting and have a light tea fragrance. The plant has excellent disease resistance.

‘Mardi Gras’ is a striking floribunda with blooms in a carnival of blended pink, orange and yellow hues. The flowers have a mild peppery scent and are born in large clusters. An upright plant with deep green, disease-resistant foliage, ‘Mardi Gras’ makes a fine hedge or landscape rose.

Both ‘Dream Come True’ and ‘Mardi Gras’ will be introduced on the Bayer Advanced float in the 2008 Pasadena Tournament of Roses.

To get your new roses off to the best possible start, plant in full sun and well-drained soil. To fertilize and protect from insects and disease, use Bayer Advanced™ All-In-One Rose & Flower Care just as the plants begin to grow next spring. One application feeds and protects for up to six weeks.