Features and Growing Tips

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Landscape Qualities

Oso Easy Italian Ice Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other landscape plants with finer foliage.

Ornamental Qualities

Oso Easy Italian Ice Rose features showy lightly-scented yellow flowers with pink edges at the ends of the branches from late spring to mid fall | which emerge from distinctive orange flower buds. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval compound leaves turn yellow in fall.

Planting and Growing

Oso Easy Italian Ice Rose will grow to be about 24 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 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 30"Hx30"W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are yellow with soft fragrance

Flowers from late spring to mid fall

Fall color yellow

Zone 4b

Likes well drained soil