Sheer Magic

Jackson & Perkins Rose of the Year 2007
If you garden in a moist, humid, or rainy climate, Sheer Magic is the Jackson & Perkins hybrid tea you can depend upon for healthy, dense foliage from spring until frost. The blooms of this magnificent rose are elegant and fragrant, and you will be sure to enjoy them in waves all season, thanks to the vigor and disease resistance of this 1995 Keith Zary introduction.

Part of Sheer Magic's beauty and strength comes from its parents. Both are All-America Rose Selection winners: the pink Sheer Elegance is the seed parent, while our own Bill Warriner introduction Color Magic is a salmon-pink blend that lightens as it matures. Sheer Magic inherited a legacy of superior performance, and you will enjoy it on every bloom.

These high-centered flowers unfold from pointed, ovoid buds of deep coral, revealing cream petals that blush coral-scarlet. The color patterning is formal without being rigidly identical from petal to petal, bloom to bloom. Each of these 4-inch, fully double flowers is an individual masterpiece.

Redolent of cloves combined with sweet tea, the flowers arise primarily on solitary stems, though occasionally Sheer Magic offers up a ready-made bouquet that opens bud by bud over several weeks' time. Very long-lasting after cutting, the blooms offer exhibition-quality form and color every time.

Sheer Magic reaches 5 feet high and about 3 feet wide, well-branched and lush. It is not afraid of being a bit crowded, making it a good choice for the sunny perennial or shrub border as well as the rose garden. A trouble-free hybrid tea to be cherished for many years, it is highly recommended by all of us here at Jackson & Perkins.