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Sun Sprinkles™ |
Sun Sprinkles is highly disease
resistant and bursts to life early and often with blazing yellow blooms, brightening any
landscape. Miniatures are among the most versatile of rose classes, great for lining
walkways, growing in containers, accenting formal rose beds – their use limited only
by the imagination.
Class: Miniature
Habit: The upright, rounded, well-branched bush grows to 18 to 24 inches.
Color: Sun Sprinkles’ bright yellow blooms shine against a backdrop
of petite, dark green, glossy foliage.
Bloom: Sun Sprinkles’ high, pointed oval buds spiral open to reveal
2-inch, miniature, double blooms with 25 to 30 petals and a moderate spicy fragrance with
overtones of musk.
Hybridizer: John Walden won his second AARS award by hybridizing Sun
Sprinkles. His first AARS winner was the 1999 introduction Kaleidoscope, a toasty tan and
lavender landscape shrub rose.
Parentage: A combination of Yellow Jacket and an unnamed seedling.
Introducer: Sun Sprinkles is introduced by Bear Creek Gardens,
Inc.
Availability: Sun Sprinkles was made available through mail order
catalogs and at garden centers, nurseries, home centers and mass merchandisers in time for
the 2001 planting season.
Photo and text: AARS