Rosa nutkana hispida

Description

'Schoener's Nutkana' is a deep pink rose variety named after Father Georg Schöner 1864-1941, a priest who became a notable rose breeder, who developed this rose in 1930 as a cross between Rosa nutkana and the hybrid perpetual 'Paul Neyron' Levet, 1869 This hybrid nutkana is a shrub rose with large, single flowers, five-petalled but sometimes with another one or two, reaching an average diameter of 8 centimetres 3.1 in. Their colour is light to carmine-pink with a large circle of yellow stamens. The long-lasting flowers are moderately fragrant, develop from small, pointed buds, and appear in small clusters of two to five on short strong stems in a spring or summer flush with some scattered flowers later on. In autumn, the shrub sports rose hips. The plant tends to be a tall, sprawling shrub, with very few thorns on its arching shoots and small light to medium grey-green foliage with seven leaflets. 'Schoener's Nutkana' can grow 250 centimetres 8.2 fthigh and 120 to 150 centimetres 3.9 to 4.9 ft wide The vigorous shrub tolerates half-shade and poorer soils, is very disease resistant and winter hardy down to -25 °C USDA zone 5 It is well suited to form hedges.