Cinco de Mayo Rose
Rosa 'Cinco de Mayo'
Floribunda Rose
$53.00
Impossible to catagorize, this bright floribunda has giant clusters of blooms containing every shade of red, orange, magenta, purple, and smokey hues; a true festival of color; great for low hedges, large containers, or mass planting
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Cinco de Mayo 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.
Ornamental Qualities
Cinco de Mayo Rose features showy fragrant coral-pink flowers with lavender overtones | yellow eyes and a creamy white ring at the ends of the branches from late spring to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has green deciduous foliage which emerges dark red in spring. The oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.
Planting and Growing
Cinco de Mayo Rose will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 3 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 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 particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 4'Hx3'W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are coral with strong fragrance
Flowers from late spring to early fall
Attracts bees
Zone 5b
Likes well drained soil