Rosa brindabella 'Touch of Pink' - Touch of Pink Brindabella Shrub Rose

A vigorous selection with a bushy habit and excellent disease resistance; highly fragrant double blooms with pale pink centers and white outer whorls will captivate home gardens or commercial landscapes; compact and low maintenance

Height: 4 feet. Spread: 4 feet. Sun: full sun. Hardiness zone: 5a.

Ornamental features

Brindabella Touch Of Pink™ Rose features showy fragrant double shell pink flowers with white overtones and gold eyes at the ends of the branches from late 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 color.

Landscape

Brindabella Touch Of Pink™ 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;

Recommended for: Accent, Mass Planting, Hedges/Screening, General Garden Use.

Planting and growing

Brindabella Touch Of Pink™ 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 somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

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