Wild Blue Yonder rose

The fragrant, repeat bloomer is a tough, disease-resistant choice for the landscape.

Wild Blue Yonder is a rose that improves with age. With each passing year, this rose improves in flower intensity. It’s a brilliantly colored selection that was honored as an All-America Rose Selection winner in 2006. Use as a hedge, along a border or in a cut-flower garden.
 

Why grow Wild Blue Yonder?

• Reddish-purple flowers have a light lavender base and a camellia shape. The flowers are quite large – up to 4½ inches in diameter. It flowers in late spring then again in early fall.

• This vigorous rose is fragrant – a mixture of citrus and old rose scent.

• It’s a tough plant that is heat tolerant and resistant to mildew and rust.


Photo by Sally Estee, courtesy of American Rose Society, www.ars.org

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