Features and Growing Tips

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Landscape Qualities

Hot & Sassy Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. 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

Hot & Sassy Rose features showy scarlet flowers with gold eyes and yellow centers at the ends of the branches from late spring to early fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Planting and Growing

Hot & Sassy Rose will grow to be about 30 inches tall at maturity | with a spread of 30 inches. 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 30"Hx30"W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are scarlet

Flowers from late spring to early fall

Attracts bees

Zone 4b

Likes well drained soil