Features
This is a ‘Cluster-flowered bush‘ rose. It repeat-flowers with clusters of large, coral orange blooms over a long flowering season. The flowers have a good, sweet fragrance. The foliage is mid to dark green and quite glossy.
What to use it for
This rose is ideal for beds and borders in cottage style or more modern gardens.
How to look after it
It’s often cheaper, and generally better, to purchase roses as bare rooted plants over the winter (their dormant season).
When planting, prune the stems down to around 10cm above ground level. Adding mycorrhizal fungi when planting can help roses establish well. Ensure roses are well watered, particularly if they are newly planted.
How to prune it
Over the dormant season (from late autumn to early spring) remove any dead, diseased, damaged, crowded, crossing or weak stems, then prune all the remaining stems down to around 30cm from ground level (about level with the top of your wellies).
Roses should be deadheaded regularly to encourage further flowering.
How to propagate it
This rose can be T-budded onto an appropriate rootstock (eg Rosa laxa) in early summer.
Roses can also be hybridised, although many cultivars, when cross bred, will produce sterile seeds.
Common problems
Drought conditions can cause smaller flowers, although the plant itself should be able to survive short term drought conditions due to its deep tap root.
Pests including aphids, rose leafhoppers, two-spotted spider mites, scale insects, caterpillars, rose chafers, rose thrips, pollen beetles, capsid bugs, leaf-cutter bees, rose slug sawflies and rose leaf-rolling sawflies may be a problem. Rabbits and deer can also find this rose a tasty treat. Roses may suffer from rose black spot (and other leaf spots), rose rust, rose powdery mildew, grey mould, rose downy mildew, silver leaf, crown gall, rose cankers and viruses. This rose has a good level of disease resistance inbred.
Disorders can include replant sickness and nutrient deficiencies.
Other useful information
This rose was developed by Fryers (a British rose breeder and supplier since 1912) in 2000 to celebrate the first RHS Tatton Park flower show, which was held in 1999.