Sunrise Sunset Rose

Group/Class: Easy Elegance Rose

Description:

A lovely bicolor rose which features the pleasing combination of rich pink and apricot orange on the same flowers, fading to a lighter pink for a potent color effect, flowers are individually beautiful; tough and adaptable for a rose, needs full sun

Ornamental Features:

Sunrise Sunset Rose is bathed in stunning hot pink flowers with peach overtones and yellow streaks at the ends of the stems from late spring to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has bluish-green foliage throughout the season. The oval compound leaves turn yellow in fall. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Sunrise Sunset Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a mounded form. 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 rose will require occasional maintenance 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;

• Spiny

Sunrise Sunset Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Sunrise Sunset Rose will grow to be about 30 inches 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 highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.