Coming up roses

David Austin Roses

David Austin continues to invest heavily in the breeding program with particular attention to disease resistance while maintaining the emphasis on creating beautiful fragrant blooms and great garden plants. These roses are available immediately as fully finished, potted roses from your local David Austin Grower.

For more: uswholesale@davidaustinroses.com

Heathcliff (Ausnipper)
Heathcliff is a beautiful addition to the crimson colored English Roses. It has large, fully double flowers of deep rosette shape. It is a healthy variety, with shiny, deep green leaves and rather upright growth. Its strong, unusual fragrance is a mixture of tea rose, old rose and just a hint of cedar wood. Suitable for USDA Hardiness Zones 5-9.

Height: 4 feet • Width: 3 feet

The Lark Ascending (Ausursula)
The medium-sized flowers are a pleasing light apricot color, produced from the ground upwards, held in large heads. They have a beautiful, open cup shape, loosely filled with about twenty petals, arranged around a central cluster of golden stamens. Its tall, airy, shrubby growth and graceful flowers associate well with other plants. It is exceptionally healthy. The light fragrance varies between tea and myrrh. Suitable for Zones 5-9.

Height: 5 feet • Width: 3 feet

Star Roses and Plants

Star Roses and Plants will present five new introductions in 2015. Two of the introductions have been top performers in a two year trial organized at 15 trial gardens around the country.

For more: www.starrosesandplants.com

The Look-A-Likes Apple Dapple Rose is the newest addition to the Look-A-Likes series and blooms in the spring with small, white, apple-like blossoms on a low-growing shrub. Hardy for Zones 5-9.

Height: 3 feet • Width: 4 feet

The Best Kept Secret Rose is a hybrid tea rose with an exhibition type flower on a very compact plant, perfect for today’s smaller gardens. The strong citrus scented flowers are well complimented by dark green, glossy foliage. Zones 6-9.

Height: 4 feet

Greenheart Farms and Kordes Roses

Greenheart Farms in Arroyo Grande, Calif., supplies rose transplants to growers across North America. W. Kordes Söhne is a world renowned company in Northern Germany with a tradition of more than a 120 years of hybridization of new rose varieties.

For more: www.greenheartfarms.com

Beverly - KORpauvio
Pink hybrid tea rose with strong fragrance and large blooms. Winner of the “Best Hybrid Tea” and “Most Fragrant Rose” awards at the 2013 Biltmore International Rose Trials. Hardy in Zones 5-9.

Height: 4-4½ feet • Width: 3 feet

Sunny Sky - KORaruli
A large flowered, hybrid tea with outstanding disease resistance. The shrub has dark green, thick healthy foliage and is lightly fragrant. Hardy in Zones 5-9.

Height: 4 feet • Width: 3 feet

See more new roses from these companies at www.NurseryMag.com. Navigate to the Online Extras section at the bottom of the page.