This is a wonderful rose. it grows vigorously and is quite floriferous for a hybrid tea. In my garden the growth is more bushy than tal...Read Morel and gangly, so I get multiple blooms. The bush is quite disease resistant, in my experience.
The flower form is classic hybrid tea: a high-centered bloom that spirals open.
For me the best quality of this rose is that it is very hardy for a hybrid tea. My garden is 15 miles east of Green Bay, WI, and winter temperatures go at least 20 degrees below zero. To get hybrid teas through such winters, I put boxes around them and bury them in about 18 inches of ground. Even so, in the winter of 2012-13 about half my roses died; but the Grand Amore came through with flying colors. So I bought two more, and all three bushes made it handily through the 2013-14 winter, which was far and away the harshest I have ever seen.
On the negative side, the rose is a true red, but not as dark a red as I prefer. The Edmunds' Roses catalog says it has a moderate fragrance; I think they are being generous, and would call the fragrance light.
So this rose is not perfect; but given its beauty and (relative) hardiness, I consider it one of my favorite hybrid teas. A strong thumbs up!
There are two different red hybrid tea roses with this name, both bred by Kordes in Germany.
One was released in 1968 (bre...Read Mored by Reimer Kordes), cultivar name 'KORliegra'.
The other, 'KORcoluma', was released in 2004 (bred by Tim Hermann Kordes). It has two other trade names: "Walter Sisulu" and "My Valentine". USPP # 17047.
'KORcoluma' is exceptionally healthy. It is highly resistant to black spot and powdery mildew, and is one of the few hybrid tea roses that have won an ADR (Germany's trial for health and performance without the use of chemicals, and the inspiration for the Earthkind trials in the US). I've seen it grown here on the east coast with healthy foliage all season without the use of fungicide.
Parentage: 'Christopher Columbus' x seedling.
Kordes owns the trademark for the name "Grande Amore".
This is a wonderful rose. it grows vigorously and is quite floriferous for a hybrid tea. In my garden the growth is more bushy than tal...Read More
There are two different red hybrid tea roses with this name, both bred by Kordes in Germany.
One was released in 1968 (bre...Read More