Roses: So beautiful yet so misunderstood! Consumers
think they are all hard to grow (Incorrect!) and garden center
buyers don’t give consumers the option to buy the great,
easy care, year round, roses that are so rewarding in the
landscape anytime but in the month of May (Even more incorrect!!).
Let’s clear up a few misconceptions first! There
are roses that are difficult to grow…these
are the old fashioned Tea Roses that your mom or grandmother
used to grow. They have fat, fabulous, beautiful blooms
but every disease and insect in the book stalks them like
the closest and easiest free meal. Oh, one more thing:
these roses tend to make it through the winter only if you
provide some extra tender loving care over and above what
you would normally do with your landscape. The conclusion,
these roses are beautiful but a real handful for the normal
homeowner.
In contrast, there are many other roses that are sure fire
winners in the landscape, roses that are hardy, disease resistant,
easy to grow and will bloom throughout the spring, summer
and into the fall with cascades of color that will turn summer
in your yard from drab to dynamite. Flower Carpet®
Roses, Meidiland Roses, Easy Elegance® Roses and Knockout®
Roses lead the way as being roses anybody that craves constant,
easy care color will love as does Rosa ‘Home Run’,
a dynamic landscape rose that will have you cheering!
‘Home Run’ might be considered the true red colored
Knockout Rose with blooms that don’t have any of the violet
shading of Knockout but with all the same matchless blooming
power on a denser, fuller plant. There are few better
plants, rose or shrub, with longer bloom periods and with so
few issues in the landscape. Because of its compact size,
‘Home Run’ will fit in a smaller space easily but
it can also be used in mass plantings for an endless wave of
color or in a container providing dependable, outrageous bloom.
Hardy to Zone 5, ‘Home Run’ is the perfect ‘plant
it and leave it’ shrub that, once established in your
landscape, performs like the most clutch power hitter in your
landscape lineup!
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