Morden Ruby Rose


Description

Height: 4 feet

Spread: 3 feet

Hardiness Zone: 2

Group/Class: Parkland Rose

Description:

A choice flowering shrub featuring showy clusters of large double ruby-red flowers in early summer, repeat-blooming; bushy upright habit, hardy, somewhat susceptible to disease, a good all-round garden shrub; all roses need full sun and well-drained soil

Ornamental Features:

Morden Ruby Rose is draped in stunning ruby-red flowers with pink tips at the ends of the stems from late spring to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green foliage throughout the season. The oval compound leaves turn yellow in fall. The fruits are orange hips displayed from mid to late fall.

Landscape Attributes:

Morden Ruby Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This is a high maintenance rose that will require regular care and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

  • Disease
  • Spiny

Morden Ruby Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

  • General Garden Use
  • Mass Planting
  • Hedges/Screening

Plant Characteristics:

Morden Ruby Rose will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.

This rose should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.


Details

Date Added 2016-09-23
Product Id 10348101