Features and Growing Tips

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Landscape Qualities

Rainbow Knock Out 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

Rainbow Knock Out Rose is bathed in stunning coral-pink flowers with hot pink overtones and yellow centers at the ends of the branches from late spring to early fall | which emerge from distinctive rose flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color. The fruits are showy red hips displayed in late fall.

Planting and Growing

Rainbow Knock Out Rose will grow to be about 4 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. 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.

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun

Keep moisture level average to moist

Mature Size 4'Hx4'W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are coral

Flowers from late spring to early fall

Zone 4b

Likes well drained soil