Rosa '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).[1]
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).[2] 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.[1] 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 ft) high and 120 to 150 centimetres (3.9 to 4.9 ft) wide.[1][2] The vigorous shrub tolerates half-shade and poorer soils, is very disease resistant and winter hardy down to −25 °C (USDA zone 5).[2][3] It is well suited to form hedges.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "'Schoener's Nutkana'". HelpMeFind. Retrieved 2014-10-02.
- ^ a b c Charles and Brigid Quest-Ritson (2010). Rosen – die große Enzyklopädie [RHS Encyclopedia of Roses] (in German). Dorling Kindersley. p. 359. ISBN 978-3-8310-1734-8.
- ^ a b Peter Beales (2002). Klassische Rosen [Classic roses] (in German). DuMont. p. 223. ISBN 3-8320-8736-2.
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