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an unusual lobelia blue color, this hybrid tea is a lovely rose with a fragrant scent. beautiful, long pointed buds open into eye-catching 4-5” blooms with 32-40 lavender petals which deepen with age. she is an upright, continual blooming, bushy plant with serrated leaves that start red-bronze and finish a matte-green. blue skies is a griffith buck rose of very complex breeding ancestry and is winter hardy in the midwest without protection.

• type: hardy

• color: unusual lobelia blue

• fragrance: lightly fragrant

• hardiness zone: 4 – 10

• size: 3′ – 4′ x 3′

• rebloom: continual blooming

• bloom type: double

• year: 1984

• breeder code: buc