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Premium Bush Rose 'Hot Chocolate'
Unique and exotic flower colour!
Grows to
45 cm
75 cm
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Plant Care Information:
RHS Garden Merit
Scented / Fragrant
Perfect In Pots
Plant In Sunshine
Winter Hardy
Cut Flower
Easy To Grow
Product options:
3L Pot
Item: 530056
£19.99
Grows to
45 cm
75 cm
3L Pot - Item: 530056
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- If you want an eye-catching rose that is truly unique, 'Hot Chocolate' is the one for you!
- Vivid, burnt-orange flower buds open up into incredible smoky chocolate-red blooms up to 10cm across.
- Each flower is accompanied by an intense old-rose fragrance that will fill the air!
- Easy to grow and disease resistant, and wonderfully exotic looking.
- Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 75cm (20in) and a width of 45cm (18in).
Key Points
- If you want an eye-catching rose that is truly unique, 'Hot Chocolate' is the one for you!
- Vivid, burnt-orange flower buds open up into incredible smoky chocolate-red blooms up to 10cm across.
- Each flower is accompanied by an intense old-rose fragrance that will fill the air!
- Easy to grow and disease resistant, and wonderfully exotic looking.
- Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 75cm (20in) and a width of 45cm (18in).
Full Product Details
Product Information
If you want an eye-catching rose that is truly unique, ‘Hot Chocolate’ is definitely the one for you!
Its vivid, burnt-orange flower buds open up into incredible and uniquely coloured smoky chocolate-red blooms against a lush background of large dark green leaves. Each flower is accompanied by an intense old-rose fragrance that will fill the air, and they make wonderful cut flowers too!
This rose is very easy to grow and disease resistant, so despite looking exotic, its perfect for beginners, with its big flowers that grow up to 10cm across, and a great fragrance too.
Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for a stunning display for many years to come.
Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 75cm (20in) and a width of 45cm (18in).
What Is Supplied
Item 530056 supplied as:
Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot.
- The amount of growth on Potted roses will vary at different times of year, depending on when they are potted.
- Potted roses will be Freshly potted from November to February, so are not fully rooted through.
- They will have new shoots beginning in March and April.
- They will be in leaf and then buds May and June.
- They will be in flower June and July.
- From August onwards they may be trimmed back, ready to plant and burst back into life the next season.
- From the end of September your rose has received its trim which will help it to have stronger roots and better form next year.
Top Tips
- The roses can be kept in their pots throughout the winter provided they are kept well fed and watered, however ideally, they should be planted out as soon as possible. Because plants are dormant throughout the winter, they do not produce any new roots until spring, so don't be alarmed if the compost falls away from the roots when you take them out of their pots.
- They will already have been cut back so no further pruning will be required, apart from removing any tips that have died back.
Care Information
- To prune, just remove any dead, dying, damaged and diseased stems and also deadhead regularly. Traditionally, you would cut just above a leaf joint with a sloping cut away from the bud, however, this isn't necessary, and don’t worry about pruning too much - roses are very resilient and will grow back.
- When pruning, make sure that your secateurs are clean and sharp to prevent squashing stems and introducing disease.
- Add mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help the plant establish quicker.
- Roses can be planted at any time of the year, as long as the soil is not frozen, waterlogged or drought-dry. Plant your rose where it can get plenty of sun for at least half of the day, and where it will be sheltered from the wind.
- Roses tolerate wide range of soils but thrive in deep, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, so add plenty of well-rotted manure into the hole if necessary and plant so that the graft union (the swollen area when the stems meet the roots) is around 3cm below soil level.
- Water well every other day - daily if the weather is hot and dry.
- Established roses can be watered around once a week through spring and summer - more if the weather is hot.
- For best results, feed roses in late-March/April and again in late July.
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Grows to
75 cm
45 cm
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