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Group/Class:  Veranda Series

Brand:  Star Roses & Plants

Description:

A beautiful, compact floribunda producing large double blooms of lavender; excellent for patio containers or as smaller garden accents; blooms are also great for cutting; mild fragrance

Ornamental Features

Veranda® Lavender Rose features showy lightly-scented lavender flowers with pink overtones at the ends of the branches from late spring to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has green deciduous foliage which emerges coppery-bronze in spring. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Landscape Attributes

Veranda® Lavender 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 shrub will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It is a good choice for attracting bees to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Veranda® Lavender Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Veranda® Lavender Rose will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

This shrub 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.