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Sweet Fragrance Rose

Rosa 'Sweet Fragrance'

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Sweet Fragrance Rose (Rosa 'Sweet Fragrance') at Wannemaker's Home & Garden

Sweet Fragrance Rose flowers

Sweet Fragrance Rose flowers

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Height:  4 feet

Spread:  3 feet

Sunlight:  full sun 

Hardiness Zone:  4b

Group/Class:  Easy Elegance Rose

Description:

This lovely bush contains clusters of coral buds and soft salmon pink blooms that are held on sturdy canes perfect for cutting; naturally hardy and disease resistant, easy to grow

Ornamental Features

Sweet Fragrance Rose features showy fragrant salmon flowers at the ends of the branches from early summer to mid fall, which emerge from distinctive coral-pink flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color. The fruits are showy red hips displayed from early to late fall.

Landscape Attributes

Sweet Fragrance 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. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

  • Spiny

Sweet Fragrance Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

  • Mass Planting
  • Hedges/Screening
  • General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Sweet Fragrance Rose will grow to be about 4 feet 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 20 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 somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

 
 
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Characteristics
Massing  Screening  Garden 
Applications
Flowers  Fruit 
Ornamental Features

 

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