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Height: 5 feet
Spread: 5 feet
Sunlight:
Hardiness Zone: 5
Group/Class: Hybrid Tea Rose
Description:
With its sweet lemony fragrance and its vibrantly saturated golden petals, this new Romantica rose will find a permanent home in your garden; perfect stems for cutting and old fashioned blooms to win your heart; a truly lovely rose for the garden
Ornamental Features
Michelangelo Rose features showy fragrant buttery yellow flowers with yellow overtones at the ends of the branches from mid spring to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall colour.
Landscape Attributes
Michelangelo 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.
Michelangelo Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Accent
- Mass Planting
- Hedges/Screening
- General Garden Use
Planting & Growing
Michelangelo Rose will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 5 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. 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.
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