Attractive, golden-green foliage with a distinct aniseed fragrance, making a vibrant contrast to the compact lavender-blue flower spikes. Adds interest to borders and containers, as well as attracts wildlife to your garden. Fragrant and excellent in borders or containers.
This shrub rose has 5 petalled, cup-shaped, cerise pink flowers, with yellow centres, that bloom from July to September and fill Rose rugosa 'Rubra' with colour. The flowers have a lovely scent, and later in the year, these are replaced by scarlet red rosehips, that provide autumn interest, along with the foliage that turns from greeen to yellow. A Red Japanese Rose is a nice plant for cottage and oriental style garden borders. Best planted in a sunny position. Height and spread: 1.5m (5').
This upright shrub bears scented pink flowers in summer, followed by bright red hips through autumn. Ht. 1.5m. Supplied as bare root plants.
Rose rugosa 'Alba' is a traditional, informal rose which is a good choice for those aiming to create a rose bush hedge, as it has a vigorous growth habit. From July until September masses of delicate, cup-shaped, white flowers, with creamy yellow centres bloom. They are followed in autumn by wildlife friendly, vibrant orange-red rosehips and the foliage turns golden yellow. A lovely addition to a traditional cottage garden. Height and spread: 1.5m (5').