Rosa 'HYDE HALL'

This is a very large shrub which, unlike most other shrubs of its size, has the ability to flower with exceptional continuity throughout the summer. It owes this ability to its unusual and original parentage.
It can be expected to achieve some 7 or 8 ft. in height. It is exceptionally tough and disease-resistant.
The flowers are produced with quite exceptional freedom. They are rosette shaped and their colour is a medium pink. Their foliage is not dissimilar to that of a Dog Rose. ‘Hyde Hall’ would be excellent for the back of a border or as a specimen in a lawn - or, being particularly tough, reliable and healthy, as a most attractive boundary hedge. Although the fragrance is relatively light, it is nonetheless delightfully warm and fruity.

Planting instructions: Prepare a hole of size 30x30 cm. Put your rose in the way that the grafting point is 3 cm deep in the soil. Water well and cover new shoots with soil or bark mulch about 15 cm high. Roses tolerate wide range of soils but thrive in deep, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, in full sun.

Pruning: English roses don’t need hard pruning like tea hybrids. Just cut last year’s growth by one third to maximum one half in the spring (after frosts) to achieve desired shape, and strong and reliable framework. Cutting it back to 3-5 live buds is possible for re-juvenating. To support extra flowering during the season remove twigs past blossom: cut them off the first leaf with 5 bracts. Mulch well before winter, preferably with leaf-mould.

Last update: 24-01-2009.