Ingrid Bergman Hybrid Tea Rose Bushes

Ingrid Bergman Roses

With her deep-green glossy leaves and rich ruby-red velveteen flowers, Ingrid Bergman is the star of the silver screen transported to your garden. She's the epitome of classy good looks, a classic, enduring beauty that will never go out of fashion. Those deep-red rosettes are of the richest red, the petals large and soft, on strong single stems. The fragrance of the rose is softly spiced, and her growth is strong and bushy.
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In Your Garden

Given her knockout colour, you'll want to give her star billing. Planted en masse in a rose border, she really comes into her own, dazzling all summer long with unapologetic colour. Although she'll grow well in any site with fertile soil, as long as it's not north facing, she prefers to be warmed by plenty of sun.

As is often the case with glossy-leaved roses, Ingrid Bergman is known for her disease resistance, showing good tolerance to blackspot and powdery mildew.

Like all bush roses, an underplanting of hardy geraniums works well, elegantly covering their bare legs. In this case, choose a white variety, or possibly a pale purple or blue: bright pink would clash.

Lavenders also work well, as long as they're not too tall, so a cutie like Hidcote would be ideal. Or, for a fairytale combination straight out of Snow White, combine with another white bush rose.

Features of Ingrid Bergman

• Height: to 1m
• Colour: rich deep red
• Shape of flower: double rosettes
• Size of flower: 10-15cm
• Scent: light, spicy
• Flowering: repeat through summer to first frosts
• Group: Hybrid Tea
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Did you know?

Just like the Swedish star of stage and screen, this Ingrid has won a clutch of prestigious awards, across Europe and in New Zealand, too. Her good breeding clearly shows, being a cross between 'Precious Platinum' and an unnamed seedling, possibly 'Else Poulsen', bred by Danish rose growers Pernille and Mogens Olesen in 1984.

How to plant Ingrid Bergman Roses

Choose a spot with as much light as possible. Dig a hole sufficiently deep to allow the rose to be planted with the graft union at soil level and with plenty of room for its roots which should be spread out. Improve the soil from the hole by removing roots, weeds, large stones and other rubbish and mixing in about 25% by volume of well-rotted compost or manure.

Position your rose so its roots are spread out, wet them and sprinkle them with Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi. If planting pot grown roses gently loosen some roots out of the ball before planting.

Then backfill the hole with mixed soil and compost, firming it gently as you go. Keep the union at the level of the surrounding soil. Water in thoroughly.

Read more about how to plant roses here. Water until well established. Prune to an open goblet shape in late winter. Mulch with garden compost in spring. Feed and deadhead throughout the flowering season.