Topaz Jewel Rose

Group/Class: Shrub Rose

Description:

A recent hardy shrub rose introduction, featuring exceptionally pretty double yellow flowers in early summer, repeat-blooming; bushy, upright habit, hardy and resistant to disease, breathtaking when used in masses; needs full sun and well-drained soil

Ornamental Features:

Topaz Jewel Rose is smothered in stunning fragrant lemon yellow flowers with gold eyes at the ends of the stems from late spring to late summer, which emerge from distinctive gold flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green foliage throughout the season. The oval compound leaves turn an outstanding scarlet in the fall. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Topaz Jewel 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

Topaz Jewel Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening

Plant Characteristics:

Topaz Jewel Rose will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 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.