WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLANT?
Height: 5 feet
Spread: 4 feet
Sunlight:
Hardiness Zone: 3
Group/Class: 49th Parallel Collection
Brand: Vineland Roses
Description:
An exceptionally hardy shrub rose, featuring lightly fragrant coral colored flowers in summer; has a bushy, upright habit, and is resistant to disease; ideal as a low flowering hedge; all roses need full sun and well-drained soil
Ornamental Features
Chinook™ Rose is blanketed in stunning fragrant coral-pink flowers with white overtones, yellow eyes and pink streaks at the ends of the branches from late spring to mid summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The oval compound leaves turn an outstanding red in the fall. The spiny brick red bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.
Landscape Attributes
Chinook™ 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 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. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;
- Disease
- Spiny
Chinook™ Rose is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Accent
- Mass Planting
- Hedges/Screening
- General Garden Use
Planting & Growing
Chinook™ Rose will grow to be about 5 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 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 20 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 somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.
