Gift Wrapped 'Birthday Girl' Rose Bushes​

Gift Wrapped 'Birthday Girl' Roses

Birthday Girl is a pretty, delicate affair, full of cheery colour and glossy good looks. Introduced in the late 80s, she's remained steadily popular for her ability to flower profusely all summer and autumn up to the first frosts, as well as for her good disease resistance and fabulous shiny foliage. 

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How to plant in the garden

Grow Birthday Girl as a hedge in a sunny spot, or plant it towards the back of a mixed border.

Classic cottage garden plants, roses (especially of the soft-pink variety) associate well with blue or purple hardy geraniums, catmint (nepeta), lavender, salvia, alchemilla mollis, stachys, verbascum, campanulas and delphiniums – to name just a handful of favourites. The last three will provide tall vertical accents to contrast with the rounded shape of the rose, while alchemilla, stachys and geraniums make wonderful underplanting specimens.

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Features

 

• Potted Rose, gift wrapped in hessian bag
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• Colour: pink, cream
• Flowering: repeat through summer
• Shape of flower: semi-double
• Size of flower: medium
• Scent: light scent
• Height: to 80cm
• Spread: to 80cm
• Group: Floribunda
• Glossy foliage

Did You Know? 

Birthday Girl, also sometimes listed as Cocorico® or The Karnival, was introduced by Meiland rose breeders of France, in 1989. She has won gold awards in rose shows at Bagatelle, Monza, Rome, Saverne, and Baden-Baden.

How to plant Birthday Girl 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. 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.

Prune in late winter to an open shape. Top dress in spring with well-rotted manure.

For the first few years, water when dry. Prune in late winter to remove crossing, diseased or dead branches. Keep the centre open and take the strongest stems back to 30 cm above soil level retaining lots of buds, and leave the weaker stems a bit longer but take off at least 10 cm or so.