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

Joseph's Coat Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous woody vine with a twining and trailing 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

Joseph's Coat Rose features showy lightly-scented pink flowers with white overtones | yellow eyes and coral-pink edges along the branches from late spring to late fall | which emerge from distinctive red flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage which emerges dark red in spring. The oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color.

Planting and Growing

Joseph's Coat Rose will grow to be about 10 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 8 feet. As a climbing rose | it can be leggy near the base and may be concealed by underplanting with lower-growing facer plants. It should be planted near a fence | trellis or other landscape structure where it can be trained to grow upwards on it | or allowed to trail off a retaining wall or slope. It grows at a fast rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

This woody vine 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 10'Hx8'W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are pink with soft fragrance

Flowers from late spring to late fall

Attracts bees

Zone 5b

Likes well drained soil