Rosa 'CHIPPENDALE'® shrub rose (Tantau)

Chippendale® rose was bred and introduced by Rosen Tantau in 2005, and has been a popular variety ever since, especially among lovers of English roses. This rose has the same type of full, quartered centres. The flower colour is variable – outer petals are light to medium pink, and the centres can be anything from rich salmon pink to almost apricot orange, depending on weather. English roses are renowned for their fragrance and even though Chippendale® is not an Austin rose it does not fall behind at all. Its perfume is medium strong, very charming, a mixture of sweet old tea rose fragrance with a little bit of spice. It starts flowering early in the season and continues until autumn. It shows great disease resistance.

Planting instructions: Prepare a hole of size 30x30 cm. Put your rose in the way that the grafting point is 3 cm deep in the soil. Water well and cover new shoots with soil or bark mulch about 15 cm high. Roses tolerate wide range of soils but thrive in deep, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, in full sun.

Pruning: These roses needn’t be pruned. What you can do though is deadhead stems with spent flowers above the first leaf with 5 leaflets. You can trim the shrub in early spring.

Last update: 08-07-2013