Rosa 'Kormahensi' OLOMOUC - KÖLNER FLORA® shrub rose / floribunda (Kordes)
size/type
medium-sized shrub,medium-sized shrub
usual height
1-1,3m
usual width
0,6-0,8m
leaves
deciduous broadleaf
colour of leaves
flowers
showy
colour of flowers
blooming time
June-October
location
full sun
soil type
any (acidic to alkaline)
soil moisture requirements
evenly moist but well-drained
USDA zone (lowest)
5 (down to -29°C)
winter protection
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
categorized
Description of the plant:
It happens quite often that a variety of rose has more than one name, even three or four if the original name is somehow closely connected to the country of origin and/or hard to spell or pronounce in other languages. KÖLNER FLORA® is a perfect example. This is its original German name which was transformed to FLORA COLONIA for English speaking countries, and even OLOMOUC in honour of the Czech city where a renowned flower exhibition venue Flora Olomouc is found. There Kordes Rosen exhibit and sometimes also introduce their new roses. KÖLNER FLORA® is a shrub rose, a cross between an English rose Geoff Hamilton and an unnamed seedling. The result is half-way between a hybrid tea rose and a floribunda rose, and it flowers reliably and repeatedly from June until October. It boasts beautiful, fully double, medium pink flowers releasing a strong, anise, myrrh, and fruity sweet scent. It belongs to the Heckenzauber® collection comprising of upright and bushy shrub roses ideal for hedging. Leaves are healthy, medium green, and glossy. Bred by Tim Hermann Kordes in 2003 and US patent No. PP27924 was granted in 2017.
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: Cut the branches by about a half in autumn and prune hard to 3-5 live buds in spring after all frosts. Spent flowers are best removed as they begin to fade. Cut off spent flowering clusters just above the leaf with 5 leaflets or deeper if rejuvenating is desired during vegetation and follow a regular feeding programme.
Last update: 27-12-2021
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GLOSSARY
- STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
- DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
- EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
- STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
- HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
- SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
- HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
- FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
- GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.
