| Description | A nice disease resistant shrub rose producing single red flowers. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Shrubs Rose |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | Single red flowers blooming heavy in the early summer, some blossoms throughout the summer and a flush again in the fall. Never seems to be without a flower. |
| Fruit | Produces a small amount of ornamental rose hips. |
| Leaves | Thorny stems on a sprawling plant. Some branches seem to grow 3 feet over night. The leaves are green during the summer and turn red in the fall. |
| Dimensions | Reaches 30-36 inches or more high and will spread over 5 feet. Space 3-4 feet on center. |
| Maintenance | I like to keep my plants on the compact side. To do this, cut the new branches back 33-50% each spring. If you want a large plant just let them grow. Each spring there will be old dead stems to remove from the center and dead tips of branched to cut off. This plant is very thorny and a long sleeve shirt and a good pair of gloves are essential. I have found the long reach rose pruners make this pruning job much easier. Dead heading helps to promote quicker flushes of flowers. But by dead heading you will lose the rose hips. This is a matter of choice |
| Author's Notes | I have this rose planted in a few gardens I maintain. In one garden they have been growing for over 20 years. |
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