A great landscape rose, as carefree as a Knockout rose, with a nicer flower. 3-3.5", single, produced in large trusses.
Ve...Read Morery floriferous and blooms more or less continuously. The color is strong and a little harsh---sometimes I want to call it hot pink and other times it looks more coral (a color that combines both pink and orange tones), but if you like the color this is a great performer. The petals drop off cleanly without deadheading, but deadheading encourages even more profuse bloom.
Tough, easy, and long-lived. This cultivar deserves to be much more widely known and grown. Much hardier than suggested above, to Z4. My nose detects no fragrance.
This is still one of the most black spot resistant of roses, even on the US east coast. In Boston and Providence, this remains symptom-free even without fungicide sprays.
Parentage: (Jean Lafitte x New Dawn) x Orange Triumph
A great landscape rose, as carefree as a Knockout rose, with a nicer flower. 3-3.5", single, produced in large trusses.
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I've had one for about 6 years, in Zone 4, that is doing well and even survived a mid-summer transplant last year.