Rose – Showpiece Fragrant Shrub Roses

Introducing a stunning new series from the world-renowned breeder behind the Flower Carpet® groundcover roses — the Showpiece™ Fragrant Shrub Roses.

This exciting range brings together the best of old-world charm and modern performance. With large, beautifully formed blooms, rich fragrance and a timeless shrub rose habit, Showpiece roses deliver romantic garden appeal backed by the reliability of advanced disease resistance achieved through expert breeding.

Each variety in the Showpiece rose series offers its own unique colour and character, forming generous displays of bloom that are as captivating in the garden as they are in floral arrangements. Their repeat flowering nature ensures a long season of colour, while their strong, healthy growth habit makes them easy to maintain in a wide range of garden settings.

As their name suggests, fragrance is a defining feature of the Showpiece roses. The blooms release a rich, delightful perfume that invites you to pause and enjoy them, adding an extra sensory dimension to their already impressive display.

Well suited to garden beds, borders and large containers, Showpiece Fragrant Shrub Roses perform best in a sunny position where they can produce their abundant floral display. Their strong stems and generous blooms also make them ideal for cutting, bringing their beauty and fragrance indoors.

Combining elegance, fragrance and outstanding garden performance, Showpiece™ roses are a truly rewarding addition to any garden.

FLOWERS & FOLIAGE

In full sun, these Showpiece shrub roses will produce masses of large, classic, fragrant rose blooms. From early spring through to the first frosts, you’ll have many rose blooms either to enjoy in the garden or pick for a vase indoors. The foliage is mid green, lush and robust.

PLANTING TIPS

These Showpiece fragrant shrub roses thrive in most climates and soils but perform best in well-drained crumbly garden soil with added organic matter. They will become tolerant to dryer conditions once established by routine watering.

WAYS TO USE THEM

Plant Showpiece fragrant shrub roses: into mixed garden beds to create some garden romance; massed in bold wedges for contemporary colour punch; near a bench or along a path where the perfume can be better enjoyed.

SHAPE & SIZE

Showpiece fragrant shrub roses will typically grow to just under a metre, as a tidy bush, taking up a quarter of a square metre once established. However, each colour differs slightly and growing conditions will also affect the final plant size.

FOOD & WATER

These Showpiece roses are drought tolerant but need thorough watering when first planted, then regularly until established. For blooming good health, feed with a controlled-release rose fertiliser in early spring and late summer: one to two handfuls gently tossed into the surface soil around the base of the plant and raked and watered in.

PESTS & DISEASE

Happily, a rose as lovely as the Rosa Showpiece series is also tolerant to disease. It doesn’t require routine chemical spraying; apply only if necessary. As for insect pests, since infestations are rare, treat plants only if they’re affected.

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Quick Tips

Landscaper tips

Each year in winter or early spring, prune the Showpiece fragrant shrub roses back hard to 25-30cm off the ground to produce maximum flowers in late spring and summer.

• Create a traditional rose sampler garden and start by filling each bed with massed Showpiece roses. Under-plant with bulbs or annuals and you’ll have a fragrant place to wander and look great for many months of the year.
• Place a garden bench permanently at the end of a garden path then surround it with a bed of Showpiece roses for months of blooms and heady perfume.
• Set against contemporary architecture, massed geometric plantings of Showpiece fragrant shrub roses make a striking and complementary contrast.
• To dress a space for a celebration, fill large containers with Showpiece shrub roses and position them at entrances, on patios, across plazas where everyone can enjoy their beautiful fragrance and beautiful colour

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