A bright and cheerful addition to garden, "Betty Boop" offers flowers in clusters of red and ivory.  Long buds open to semi-double flowers of six to twelve petals.  The flowers are yellow-ivory with red-edged petals.  Red stamens complete the picture.   Fragrance is pleasant, sweet and fruity.  Growth is medium-tall; foliage is red when young, maturing to dark green, rounded ball of blossoms.  Flowers are semi-single in form, and a bright yellow broadly trimmed with red.  Growth is spreading, and shrub-like in density.  Nearly always in flower, it is an excellent choice for garden color.

Introduced by Weeks Roses, "Betty Boop" is named after the cartoon character which debuted in 1930 by Max Fleischer's Talkartoons.

She may have been born a saucer-eyed, bob-haired cartoon flapper in 1930, but in 1999 she is blossoming once more! "Betty Boop", the fourth AARS winner for 1999, is an ivory yellow with a red edge floribunda that likes to flower early and often during the growing season. The brightly colored clusters of flowers dance coyly among deep green leaves and dark red new growth to present a "Red Hot Mama" of color. Betty Boop is a naturally rounded medium to tall plant with flowers and foliage to the ground, making an ideal landscape plant. Additionally, the plant offers an attractive, moderately fruity, sweet fragrance, a la her namesake -- the original Betty Boop, star of over 112 cartoons in just nine years. Long, elegant and pointed buds mature into 4-inch flowers with a petal count of 6 to 12. Originally introduced in 1930 by Max Fleischer's Talkartoons for Paramount, Betty Boop takes center stage again thanks to an introduction by Weeks Roses. Tom Carruth choreographed Betty Boop from a combination of Playboy and Picasso, just as Betty would want it! As Betty said in her last film in 1939 "Yip, Yip, Yippy" for remembering her 60 years later!