FREIHEITSGLOCKE® – pink Hybrid Tea rose – Kordes
This hybrid tea cultivar offers premium flower quality for professional cut and container production, delivering exhibition-grade, high-centred blooms on an upright, compact framework suited to specimen work and structured flower beds. Its verified identity and authenticity within the pharmaROSA® NEONATAL range support reliable, repeatable programmes for nurseries building exclusive ranges and private-label offers. Own-root material provides longevity and stable stands for retail and reseller channels, aligning with production systems where predictable output and low replacement rates are critical. In typical UK nursery conditions it performs reliably across varied sites, offering good disease tolerance even where winters are cold and winds are frequent, and supporting container-led premium routes in 5–7 L formats. As tray-rooted, 3–6‑month NEONATAL material it integrates cleanly into propagation beds and potting lines, with year one focused on roots, year two on structural shoot build-up, and year three delivering full ornamental value. Its remontant habit, cut-flower suitability and manageable maintenance make it a practical component in thematic rose collections and show-garden oriented assortments targeting exclusive finished products for discerning retail partners.
Usage options
Finished-product ideas
- Premium 5–7 L exhibition hybrid tea – Upright, bush-trained plants in 5–7 L pots highlighting high-centred, exhibition-standard blooms and strong colour contrast for top-tier benches – retail/reseller.
- Fragrant cut-and-display hybrid tea – Container-grown plants selected for straight stems and medium-strength tea fragrance, sold as dual-purpose cut-and-garden roses – retail/reseller.
- Thematic liberty collection feature – Positioned as a named historical Kordes hybrid tea within curated “liberty/freedom” or heritage series, supplied in premium containers – retail/reseller.
- Low-input disease-resilient bed rose – Own-root bush-trained stock marketed on good disease resistance and low maintenance for high-traffic flower beds and specimen use – retail/reseller.
- Signature pink focal SKU – A colour-contrast focal rose anchoring pink-themed ranges, combining remontant flowering and strong cyclamen-to-cream gradients in 5–7 L format – retail/reseller.
Technical cultivar profile
| Parameter |
Data |
| Name and registration |
Hybrid Tea group cultivar marketed as Freiheitsglocke® (Liberty Bell), commercial type hybrid tea rose, ARS exhibition name Liberty Bell, unregistered cultivar with verified authenticity status. |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred by Reimer Kordes (W. Kordes’ Söhne) in Germany from cross ‘Detroiter’ × ‘Perfecta’; introduced by W. Kordes’ Söhne in 1963 and positioned as a classic hybrid tea. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Upright bush habit, around 80–110 cm tall with 50–70 cm spread, moderately dense, slightly glossy dark green foliage, moderate prickliness and poor self-cleaning requiring regular deadheading. |
| Flower morphology |
Large, double, 26–39 petalled, high-centred, pointed-budded blooms of classic cut-rose type; solitary flowers on stems, remontant with a reliable second flush under suitable culture. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Vivid cyclamen-pink outer petals, paler towards the centre; ARS colour code DR, RHS 53A outer and 60B inner; colour softens to raspberry-rosy and creamy tones as blooms open and age. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Noticeable, medium-strength tea-scented fragrance; primarily ornamental, with double flowers limiting pollinator access, so best valued for scent and visual display rather than ecological services. |
| Hip characteristics |
Rose hip set is generally low due to double flowers; where present, produces small spherical red hips around 8–12 mm in diameter, with limited ornamental significance in production contexts. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Good resistance to powdery mildew, black spot and rust; hardy to around −21 to −18 °C (RHS H7, Swedish zone 3, USDA 6b), with moderate heat tolerance and need for watering in prolonged drought. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Suited to flower beds, specimen use and cut flower production; best presented as a bush-trained plant with 3–5 framework canes, following a premium container route in 5–7 L pots for exclusive markets. |
FREIHEITSGLOCKE® offers exhibition-grade blooms, strong disease resistance and long-lived own-root stability, giving nurseries predictable, regenerating stock for premium lines; please contact us to align capacity and scheduling to your programme.
