Group/Class:  Hybrid Rugosa Rose

Description:

An outstanding, hardy spreading rugosa hybrid with moderately fragrant, semi-double rose-pink blooms; dark green foliage is dense and glossy; susceptible to rust later in the season

Ornamental Features

Sarah Van Fleet Rose features showy lightly-scented rose flowers with pink overtones and gold eyes at the ends of the branches from late spring to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has forest green deciduous foliage which emerges light green in spring. The glossy oval compound leaves turn harvest gold in fall.

Landscape Attributes

Sarah Van Fleet 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;

• Disease
• Spiny

Sarah Van Fleet Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Sarah Van Fleet Rose will grow to be about 8 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 6 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 medium 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.