Rosa 'Tan94488' CANDLELIGHT® hybrid tea shrub rose (Tantau)

What colour is golden? It is a merge of yellow and orange but neither of those. Simply golden. If you want to exercise your colour perception have a deep look into the tones of this luxury rose called CANDLELIGHT®. No wonder it was awarded Gold Medal and chosen Golden Rose in Baden-Baden 2002. It is a strongly scented hybrid-tea rose making 12-14 cm large, fully double, almost English-rose-like flowers. The perfume is strong, well-balanced fruity and spicy. The rose is healthy and usually needs no protection against diseases, and blooms in several flushes from June till frosts. Bred by Hans Jürgen Evers in 1994.

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. During the flowering season regular feeding is recommended.

Pruning: Regular deadheading during the flowering season will enhance production of new flower buds - remove stems with spent flowers above the first leaf with 5 leaflets where the stem is strong and does not bend. Hard prune the whole shrub in early spring after frosts to 3-5 live buds above the ground.

Last update: 08-10-2018