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Sunbelt® Crazy Love™ Rose flowers

Sunbelt® Crazy Love™ Rose flowers

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Group/Class:  Shrub Rose

Brand:  Star Roses & Plants

Description:

Exciting copper-yellow ruffled blooms are produced on an upright, bushy shrubs with healthy, glossy green foliage; a fragrant selection perfect for fresh cut arrangements, mass plantings or borders; strong repeat bloomer, great for long season color

Ornamental Features

Sunbelt® Crazy Love™ Rose is bathed in stunning fragrant coppery-bronze flowers with yellow overtones along the branches from late spring to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Landscape Attributes

Sunbelt® Crazy Love™ 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 shrub will require occasional maintenance 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. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Spiny

Sunbelt® Crazy Love™ Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Sunbelt® Crazy Love™ Rose will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a medium 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. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.