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Group/Class:  Hybrid Tea Rose

Description:

A truly breathtaking rose with fully double flowers in rich sumptuous orange, which fade over time to pink for a dazzling contrast; ideal for cutting and bouquets, adds a dash of fire to liven up a garden composition

Ornamental Features

Marina Rose features showy fragrant orange flowers with pink overtones at the ends of the branches from late spring to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has light green deciduous foliage. The oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Landscape Attributes

Marina 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. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Marina Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Marina Rose will grow to be about 6 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 6 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front, and is suitable for planting under power lines. 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.