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Yellow Brick Road Rose flowers

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Group/Class:  Easy Elegance Rose

Description:

A truly captivating compact shrub rose constantly covered with lemon yellow blooms; a stunning splash of color in a low hedge, ground cover or border application; highly disease resistant, truly a low care plant

Ornamental Features

Yellow Brick Road Rose is bathed in stunning lightly-scented lemon yellow flowers at the ends of the branches from late spring to late fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has green deciduous foliage. The oval compound leaves turn yellow in fall. The fruits are showy red hips displayed from early to late fall.

Landscape Attributes

Yellow Brick Road 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. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Disease
• Spiny

Yellow Brick Road Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Yellow Brick Road Rose will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 3 feet. 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. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.