Shrub Rose 'Pink Double Knock Out'

Totally agree with lambe69. I have a pink double knock out. It is exceptionally robust, vigorous and disease resistant. However it is a s...Read Morehame how hyped up these are especially on commercial properties. One could say these are the Stella d'oro daylilies of the rose world! :-p

I've had the red Knockout rose for many years, but happy to find the Pink Double on a clearance rack at Lowe's. Knock-out roses are the o...Read Morenly rose I have luck with in our wet humid summers. They really like to be in full sun. Mine do get irrigation twice a week. The pink looks more like a rose than my red do.

These grow very well in the brutal summer heat and mildly alkaline soils in this region. I have two that I planted in 2012 as 1.5 gallon...Read More pots that have gone from 8 inches this past winter to nearly 3x3 bushes in one season. I use a soaker hose, coffee grounds, and 3 inches of shredded city mulch. No pesticides or herbicides.

I planted four double pink knockout roses in my front landscape two years ago, and they are doing very well - lots of blooms, no back spo...Read Moret/mildew, Japanese beetles avoid, plenty of blooms, survive the Chicago winter. However, it drives me absolutely mad that the McDonalds, the gas station, the Dunkin Donuts, etc. has these same roses in their landscape. I am sick of seeing them. Further, the roses "pale-out" in a weird way, unlike other pink roses. I.e., the color is nice when it first blooms, but then changes to a strange pink/off-white color I'm not particularly fond of. I will remove them and replace them with some carefree beauty roses, which are also resistant to black spot/mildew. If I have to spend a bit more time on them, I don't mind - hopefully the Japanese Beetles will avoid them, too.