Group/Class:  Rugosa Rose

Description:

An excellent hybrid pavement rose, presenting fragrant scarlet-pink flowers in summer; repeat-blooming; compact, mounded habit; tough and disease-resistant, perfect for lining a driveway or sidewalk; large red hips with yellow foliage in fall

Ornamental Features

Scarlet Pavement Rose is clothed in stunning fragrant semi-double scarlet flowers with pink overtones and buttery yellow eyes at the ends of the branches from late spring to late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. The fruits are showy red hips carried in abundance from mid fall to early winter. It has forest green deciduous foliage. The oval compound leaves turn an outstanding yellow in the fall.

Landscape Attributes

Scarlet Pavement Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a mounded form. 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 is a good choice for attracting bees and butterflies to your yard. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Disease
• Spiny

Scarlet Pavement Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• General Garden Use
• Groundcover

Planting & Growing

Scarlet Pavement Rose will grow to be about 30 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 30 inches. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. 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. To help this plant achive its best flowering performance, periodically apply a flower-boosting fertilizer from early spring through into the active growing season. It is not particular as to soil type or pH, and is able to handle environmental salt. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.