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Height: 10 feet
Spread: 8 feet
Sunlight:
Hardiness Zone: 5a
Group/Class: Climbing Rose
Description:
This vigorous grafted rose produces sprays of fragrant, double blooms that open daffodil yellow and soften to primrose; deadheading encourages continued bloom, but it is advised to allow development of colorful hips in fall; hardy and vigorous
Ornamental Features
Golden Showers Rose features showy fragrant yellow flowers with creamy white overtones along the branches from late spring to late fall, which emerge from distinctive gold flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. The fruits are showy orange hips carried in abundance from early to late fall. It has dark green deciduous foliage which emerges dark red in spring. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall colour.
Landscape Attributes
Golden Showers Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous woody vine with a twining and trailing 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 woody vine that will require regular care and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It is a good choice for attracting bees to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.
Golden Showers Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Mass Planting
- Hedges/Screening
- General Garden Use
Planting & Growing
Golden Showers Rose will grow to be about 10 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 8 feet. As a climbing rose, it can be leggy near the base and may be concealed by underplanting with lower-growing facer plants. It should be planted near a fence, trellis or other landscape structure where it can be trained to grow upwards on it, or allowed to trail off a retaining wall or slope. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.
This woody vine 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 highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.
