Other Names:  Fairy Tale Queen Rose

Group/Class:  Hybrid Tea Rose

Description:

Classic pale, satiny pink blooms start out with a long slender bud that opens slowly to a perfect spiral dream; medium grayish-green foliage and reasonable disease resistance; has a lovely fragrance and will produce armloads of perfect cut flowers

Ornamental Features

Bride's Dream Rose features showy fragrant shell pink flowers at the ends of the branches from late spring to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has grayish green deciduous foliage which emerges burgundy in spring. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall colour.

Landscape Attributes

Bride's Dream 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 shrub will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Bride's Dream Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Bride's Dream Rose will grow to be about 4 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 30 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 highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.