Pretty Polly Patio Rose Bushes
- Colour: Light to medium pink.
- Shape: Double
- Scent: Light
- Flowering: Repeating Summer & Autumn
- Type: Patio Shrub
- Size: 30-60cm
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
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Description
Pretty Polly Patio Rose Bushes. 3 Litre Pots.
Lovely light and bright pink, double, blooms over healthy, glossy green leaves. The flowers stand up to wind and rain well. It is versatile in that you can keep it really low at about 30cm, or trim it into an ornamental hedge to 50-60cm
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Features:
- Colour: Light to medium pink.
- Shape: Double
- Scent: Light
- Flowering: Repeating Summer & Autumn
- Type: Patio Shrub
- Size: 30-60cm
- RHS Award of Garden Merit
Growing Pretty Polly Roses
To grow roses in pots, it is best to use good quality, peat free, soil-based compost. During the growing season, don't let their pots dry out, and give them a liquid feed about once per week to once per fortnight.
Trim your patio roses only lightly for their first couple of years while they settle in, then prune them as you would a floribunda in early spring to keep them plump and bushy: remove twiggy growth, then prune the main stems by about a third, down to a suitable bud or lateral stem.
At the same time as you prune a mature patio rose, it is good to pull them out every few years, refresh the compost, and put them back in the pot, or in a bigger one if you started off small.
Repeating roses should be dead headed to keep them flowering strongly.
Did You Know?
Bred by Marie-Louisette Meilland (1920-1987) during the last years of her life, probably from Darling Flame and Air France, but possibly from Coppélia and Magic Carrousel. Registration code MEItonje, first sold as Pink Symphonie, also sold as Sweet Sunblaze.
It holds three international awards, including a Certificat de Mérite from the 1987 Bagatelle Rose Trials.