Description:

A very attractive species rose, which features showy semi-double white flowers set over stunning blue-green foliage, makes an excellent contrast in a sunny garden; mounded habit, relatively disease free, needs full sun and well-drained soil

Ornamental Features

Semi Plena White Rose features showy lightly-scented semi-double white flowers with yellow eyes at the ends of the branches from late spring to early summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has bluish-green deciduous foliage. The oval compound leaves turn yellow in fall.

Landscape Attributes

Semi Plena White Rose is a dense multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. 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 is a high maintenance shrub that will require regular care and upkeep, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. It is a good choice for attracting bees to your yard. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Suckering
• Disease
• Spiny

Semi Plena White Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Mass Planting
• Hedges/Screening
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Semi Plena White Rose will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 6 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 25 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 is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.