PLANT FINDER
Height: 4 feet
Spread: 4 feet
Sunlight:
Hardiness Zone: 6a
Other Names: English Rose
Group/Class: Austin Rose
Description:
This elegant shrub produces full, yellow-peach blooms; outer petals fall back and mature to butter yellow; lovely strong fragrance; needs full sun and well-drained soil; good disease resistance; can be trained as a climbing rose
Ornamental Features
Teasing Georgia Rose features showy fragrant fully double yellow flowers with peach overtones and buttery yellow edges at the ends of the branches from early summer to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.
Landscape Attributes
Teasing Georgia 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
Teasing Georgia Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Mass Planting
- Hedges/Screening
- General Garden Use
Planting & Growing
Teasing Georgia Rose will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. 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 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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