Group/Class:  Hybrid Tea Rose

Description:

This wonderfully fragrant variety produces lovely pink blend double flowers all season, and has an upright and spreading habit with strong stems, an outstanding landscape rose; perfect for sunny foundations, mixed borders and cutting gardens

Ornamental Features

Madame Antoine Mari Rose features showy fragrant double shell pink flowers with gold eyes at the ends of the branches from late spring to mid fall, which emerge from distinctive red flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage which emerges burgundy in spring. The oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Landscape Attributes

Madame Antoine Mari 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 is a high maintenance shrub that will require regular care 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;

• Disease
• Spiny

Madame Antoine Mari Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

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

Planting & Growing

Madame Antoine Mari Rose will grow to be about 6 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 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 may require supplemental watering during periods of drought or extended heat. 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.