Height: 5 feet
Spread: 3 feet
Sunlight:
Hardiness Zone: 6
Group/Class: Hybrid Tea Rose
Brand: Star Roses & Plants
Description:
A vigorous grower featuring lovely pastel blooms of pale apricot, contrasted by the excellent, dark green, glossy foliage; has a compact, bushy habit and good disease resistance; reblooms in flushes throughout the season; spicy fragrance
Ornamental Features
Apricot Candy™ Rose features showy lightly-scented fully double peach flowers with buttery yellow overtones at the ends of the branches from late spring to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall colour.
Landscape Attributes
Apricot Candy™ 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. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;
- Spiny
Apricot Candy™ Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Accent
- Mass Planting
- Hedges/Screening
- General Garden Use
Planting & Growing
Apricot Candy™ Rose will grow to be about 5 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, and is suitable for planting under power lines. 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. To help this plant achive its best flowering performance, periodically apply a flower-boosting fertilizer from early spring through into the active growing season. 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.
