Linda Campbell Rose
Rosa 'Morten'
$59.00
An old-fashioned hardy shrub rose, covered in semi-double red flowers in early summer, repeat-blooming; tall, upright arching habit with some suckering, hardy and resistant to disease, makes a great specimen shrub; needs full sun and well-drained soil
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
Linda Campbell Rose is a dense 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
Linda Campbell Rose features showy lightly-scented red flowers with yellow eyes at the ends of the branches from early summer to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. The fruits are showy orange hips carried in abundance from early to late fall. It has dark green deciduous foliage which emerges burgundy in spring. The glossy oval compound leaves turn an outstanding scarlet in the fall. The spiny purple bark adds an interesting dimension to the landscape.
Planting and Growing
Linda Campbell Rose will grow to be about 6 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 8 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 25 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 | and is able to handle environmental salt. 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 6'Hx8'W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are red with soft fragrance
Flowers from early summer to mid fall
Attracts bees
Fall color scarlet
Zone 2b
Likes well drained soil