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Your hardiness zone is key to selecting plants that can survive the winters in your area. Enter your zip code so we can guide you to roses and plants that will flourish in your garden.

Find Your Hardiness Zone

Your hardiness zone is key to selecting plants that can survive the winters in your area. Enter your zip code so we can guide you to roses and plants that will flourish in your garden.

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First Prize has beautiful, long, pointed buds that open into perfect, 6" flowers with a petal count of 25+. The large flowers are made up of half swirled hues of rose-pink with an ivory pink reverse. She is a continually blooming, bushy plant with dark green, leathery leaves that provide the perfect backdrop for her outstanding blooms. First Prize is a lovely cut rose and does great in beds, borders, or pots.
- Type: Hybrid Tea
- Color: Pink/ivory pink reverse
- Fragrance: Very Fragrant
- Hardiness Zone: 6 - 10
- Size: 3' - 4' x 3'
- Rebloom: Continual Blooming
- Bloom Type: Double
- Year: 1970
- SKU: HT912 GALLON

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Hardiness Zone: 6

Huge blooms... fantastic colors

This rose is an exceptionally gorgeous rose. The blooms are very large and plentiful with multiple shades of pink. I was amazed when a pretty small bush put out every bit of a 5 inch blossom. This year they're even bigger. The sun does make the color fade a little faster than when it's cooler. It's a vigorous bush, and I highly recommend it. One of 3 favorites in a garden of 30+ roses. My other two favorites are arborose Tangerine Skies and arborose Quicksilver.

This amazing cut rose in a bud vase never drops a petal.

First Prize does have a light rose fragrance, but more than fragrance, this rose is stunning. I have a new bush and the first bloom slowly opened a little more each day for a week, then it went through a torrential downpour. The next day I cut it and brought her inside. It's now been inside for 5 days in a bud vase and she continues to open more and more each day slowly exposing her pistil with the edges of the petals browning a little, but not one petal has fallen. Just amazing. Such a beauty. I love this rose. I live in the California desert and in the right location roses will grow here.

Beautiful rose. One of my favorites. Outstanding cut rose and fragrance. First Prize is a perfec...

I see someone wrote this has no fragrance. My First Prize rose had fragrance. Gophers killed it overnight, so it needs protection from gophers. I've recently read that planting garlic cloves around a rose protects it. I plan to do this. when it is available again.

Definitely First Prize

Zone9+...Scottsdale Afizona.
My plant is over 20 years old. Every year I say, "Im cutting this baby back to humility range this year! Never works.The bush is a ten footer any way you lay your ruler, and some blooms are 8" . Right now in mid April there are over a hundred blooms on this beauty! This growth will continue through May into June until the temps hit 115. Then everything stops metabolizing, including people...and roses.

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