My Lovely Dad Rose Bushes
The details
- Colour: Cool purple/lilac-blue new flowers, maturing to warmer lilac.
- Double, high centred
- Strong fragrance
- To 1m x 80cm
- Flowers in flushes Jun-Sept
- Group: Hybrid Tea
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Description
My Lovely Dad Rose Bushes. 3 Litre Pots.
A blue rose is a rose breeder's dream and this one comes quite close when he first opens with intense lavender lilac-bluish petals, tipped with violet. They quickly soften to a more pink shade of lilac. Profuse and fragrant, the large, high centred, beautifully formed flowers are pretty much consistent through the season. Vigorous and disease resistant to 1 metre.
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Features
- Colour: Cool purple/lilac-blue new flowers, maturing to warmer lilac.
- Double, high centred
- Strong fragrance
- To 1m x 80cm
- Flowers in flushes Jun-Sept
- Group: Hybrid Tea
Growing My Lovely Dad Roses
Suitable for any well drained soil, they thrive on clay as long as the site isn't waterlogged in winter. They should get as much sun as possible and benefit from a sheltered microclimate in colder Northern regions.
Planting Instructions
How to plant Hybrid Tea Roses
If planting against a wall, leave about a 45cm (18") space.
Dig a hole deep enough to place the graft union between your rose's stem and roots at soil level (so it's at approximately the same level in the soil as it was before being transplanted), with plenty of room for the roots to spread out.
Improve the soil from the hole by removing rubbish, large stones, weeds and roots, then mixing in about 25% by volume of well rotted compost or manure and dusting it with bone meal. It is usually more convenient to do the mixing on a ground sheet or in a wheelbarrow.
If your rose is bareroot, wet the roots before planting. It often helps to make a small mound at the base of the hole to set the base of the rose onto and spread the roots over.
If pot grown, soak the pot and then gently loosen some of the roots. Sprinkle some Rootgrow onto the soil, put the rose on top of it, and sprinkle the rest over the roots.
When the roots are spread out and the graft union is level with the soil, backfill the hole with the improved soil, firming it down as you go. Water in thoroughly, water again two days later, and then keep watering in dry spells during the first and second growing seasons.
Ornamental roses are hungry feeders and flower best when they are mulched every year and given rose food during the growing season.
Did You Know?
Bred by Gareth Fryer, registration code FRYniche, and introduced in 2008 under the name Moody Blue.