Fresh Picks-Koko Loko Floribunda Rose

This is my pick to try this year for a new rose variety. It's a Weeks rose, so I'll need to find a retail source, but I think it sounds really intriguing.

Koko Loko™

2012 Intro

(cv. WEKbijou) PPAF

Floribunda - Milk chocolate changing to lavender

So unusual…it looks good enough to eat…or maybe drink in this case. The cocoa is creamy like latte. But the latte goes loco to finish all lavender! You just can’t imagine a milky chocolate-colored bud would mature to be a solid soft lavender blossom. Early to bloom, every lovely bud spirals open with impeccable show form. The flowers last long on the plant & in the vase. Beyond its novelty, there lies a great plant….rounded, handsome & bushy…chock full of green leaves.

• Height / Habit: Medium / Rounded & bushy
• Bloom / Size: Medium, double, very well formed
• Petal count: 30 to 35
• Parentage: Blueberry Hill x Pot o’Gold
• Fragrance: Moderate
• Hybridizer:Bédard—2012
• Comments: Warm weather brings out the lavender.