Sunrosa Red Shrub Rose
Rosa x ‘ZARSBJO’ PPAF
Plant Details
USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 5a-10b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Shrub Rose
Height at Maturity: 18-24″ with annual late winter pruning to 4 -6″ above ground
Width at Maturity: 12-18″ with annual late winter pruning to 4 -6″ above ground
Spacing: 15-18″ apart for low hedges or massed; 4’+ apart for space between plants
Spacing: 15-18″ apart for low hedges or massed; 4’+ apart for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Bushy, Dense
Growth Rate: Fast
Flower Color: True Red
Flower Size: 2″
Flowering Period: Spring to Frost!
Flower Type: Double
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Dark Green
Fragrant Foliage: Yes
Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade
Water Needs: Average
Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Drainage: Well drained
Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.0 (Mildly Acid to Neutral)
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Disease, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity
Description
Sunrosa Roses are an exciting series of true-dwarf roses from the Suntory Collection. What they lack in size they make up for in flower power! They are beautiful, compact, bushy and highly disease resistant – even in the heat and humidity of the Deep South. Sunrosa Roses need less pruning than typical shrub roses, and due to their high disease resistance, are easy to care for. They are also have an exceptionally long flowering period that begins in spring and continues to beyond the first frost. Their small size makes Sunrosa Roses a perfect fit for smaller garden spaces and pots, planters and other containers. Group or mass them in larger landscape spaces for a stunning display of bright color all season long!
The Sunrosa Red Rose produces LOADS of TRUE RED double blooms all season long on disease-resistant dwarf bushes 18 to 24 inches tall and 12 to 18 wide at maturity, which makes them a perfect fit for smaller spaces and pots, planters and other containers. The flowers have a mild tea rose fragrance. In our gardens, the bushes are almost always in bloom from spring to the first frost. Disease resistance here in hot and humid central Georgia has been remarkably good.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 18 to 24 inches tall and 12 to 18 inches wide (depending on pruning), the Sunrosa Red Rose is ideal for use as a specimen in smaller garden spaces and as a solo or combined with other plants in pots, planters and other containers. In larger landscape borders plant in groupings, mass or as a border for a stunning display of season-long color. A fine addition to rose gardens, red theme gardens, fragrance gardens, perennial gardens and cottage gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 16 to 18 inches apart for groupings and borders; 4 feet or more apart for space between plants
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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Sunrosa Rose variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Requirements
Sunrosa Roses are exceptionally easy to grow in most any average, moist to medium moist but well drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. Keep in mind that all roses require morning sun to dry the morning dew from their leaves, but will tolerate some afternoon shade or filtered sun. Sunrosa Roses do not require pruning, however will benefit from it. To keep your Sunrosa Rose full and bushy from year to year prune the branches back to about 4-6 inches above the ground in late winter or early spring. After this hard pruning, your Sunrosa Rose will quickly flush out and start blooming with the arrival of warmer spring temperatures. Deadheading spent flowers through the season is not necessary however will encourage new buds and more flowers.
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The Rose arrived very well packed, it even had a few flowers on it. After having it now for a few weeks it lost some of its leaves, as expected and has now grown new ones. I am planning on re-potting it into a larger pot. Our soils here on Sanibel are not good so my roses will be grown in pots. I live in Zone 10 so am experimenting with growing this variety of rose. Will keep you posted. So far they are doing very well.——————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
These dwarf roses are a beautiful deep red and they are full of blooms after a few weeks in the ground. They came packaged well and in great condition, as always.———————————Thanks for the photo, its beautiful! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I needed a true mini rose for a special project and Wilson Brothers delivered. The rose arrived quickly and in excellent condition. At maturity it will be 24” which is perfect.
Will see how it over winters , but so far so good.
I will consider Wilson Brothers for specialty plant needs.————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Will see how it over winters , but so far so good.
I will consider Wilson Brothers for specialty plant needs.————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
The roses arrived quickly and in great condition with blooms and buds. Well pleased with these Sunrosa dwarf roses, especially in the hard-to-find true red color. They are thriving in my garden. Thanks Wilson Bros Gardens for offering plants not available locally or much elsewhere and making it easy and secure to order online, as well as providing excellent customer service with quick responses by email and phone.————————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Very pleased with my purchase. Delivered quickly and well packaged. Nice healthy plants. Have repotted them and so far so good. Expect they will grow well.——————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Shrub rose received was very healthy-buds and a few roses already in bloom. Will add some color to a small island I am creating.——————————————————-We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG 🙂
I had previously purchased some of these from a local nursery and could not find any more to expand my garden. I found them on this site and was thrilled, they were more expensive but wow! They arrived and I immediately planted them. They were way nicer than the ones from the local nursery and have surpassed them in size, bloom and beauty. I would definitely purchase from them again.————————————-Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG
This arrived great. Unfortunately it couldn’t take the Central Florida summer heat of Zone 9B. Neither could the other Sunrosa’s I ordered. All came great. But for Central Florida go with their Drifts. ———————- WBG Reply: Hi – We are sorry to hear that the Sunrosa Roses didn’t perform well for you there in Central Florida. Because you’ve had success with the Drift Roses, we’re not questioning your feedback, and we only have experience growing these in Georgia, but the folks at Riverland Nursery in Fort Meyers, Florida say this on their website: “The Drift and SunRosa roses perform well in our hot, rainy and humid summers. They come in various colors and fragrances, and will grow to 2 ½ feet making them an ideal border plant with color.” This, and that we have received no other feedback from other Florida customers, has us wondering if something else might have caused the problems with your roses? Perhaps they just went through some transplant shock and dropped leaves but will recover? We’d really like to know for sure so we can change the hardiness zones posted on our website if necessary. Please keep us posted as to if they recover. If they don’t, we’ll be sending you a gift card as a consolation. – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens
Absolutely super service. Plants arrived in perfect shape and condition. The roses growing well and look great. —————– WBG Reply: Hi Fred – Thanks so much for providing your review of the Sunrosa Red Roses! These are truly remarkable roses. They bloom almost non-stop throughout the entire season in my landscape…even during the hot and humid summers here in north-central Georgia. Hope you enjoy yours for years to come. Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help you with. We’re at your service! – Brent Wilson | Wilson Bros Gardens
Just received my order and the Sunrosa roses were in very condition. No damage at all from shipping…liked how you secured the plants in the box. Great job. Very pleased with my purchase. I’ll be back to buy more plants.























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