The Nation’s Top Roses (NAPSA)—After two years of rigorous evaluation in test gardens across the United States, the All-America Rose Selections 2005 Winners are available and ready for planting in your garden. This year’s bare-root winners DayDream, Elle, Lady Elsie May, and About Face stand outfor their colorful blooms, appealing fragrance and trouble-free nature. Whether you're a novice gardener or long-time rose aficionado, one of these beauties can brighten a —f r(Wa spot in your garden. * DayDream is a low-growing compact landscape shrub rose, just two feet high. The massive clusters of lightly scented, fuchsia-pink blooms flower all summer with minimal maintenance. Foliageis glossy, deep green and highly disease-resistant. DayDream’s moderate size and neat round habit make it an appropriate choice for a variety of gardens. It’s introduced by Bailey Nurseries of St. Paul, Minn. Tantalizing Elle combines a strongspicy, citrusy fragrance with a high-centered classic rose bud. This hybrid tea produces shell pink flowers with deep yellow undertones. The dark glossy foliage provides a nice contrast to the soft, non-fading flower and offers aboveaverage tolerance to mildew and blackspot. Elle’s flowers bloom on 10 to 14 inch stems andare four to five inches wide. Elle is introduced by The Conard-Pyle Company/Star Roses of West Grove, Pa. A rose unlike any other, Elsie May turns heads everywhere she blooms. An upright, spreading shrub rose, Lady Elsie May offers a vigorous, uniform growth habit and excellent disease resistance. An abundanceof rich coral pink flowers AARS winning roses are hearty and lovely in any climate. bloom in clusters on strong 12 to 20 inch cutting stems. Each flower is approximately three to four inches wide and has 12 to 14 petals. The fragrance is slight and the foliage dark green and rugged. Lady Elsie May is introduced by Angelica Nurseries of Kennedyville, Md. About Face is a grandiflora with a novel “backward” bicolor whoselight color of deep golden yellow is on the inside of the petals with a darker, bronze-y orange-red backside. This super-vigorous plant yields long stems with full old-fashioned blossomsthat catch attention throughoutits life. The flowers, up to five inches in diameter, offer a mild fresh apple fragrance and are beautifully complemented by lush, clean, green leaves. About Face is introduced by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Upland,Calif. This year’s AARS Winners are sold in select mail-order nursery catalogs and at local nurseries and garden centers nationwide. Always look for the AARS tag to know you’re planting the very best.
