Sunny Sky Hybrid Tea Rose Bushes

Sunny Sky Hybrid Tea Rose

A stand-out rose, Sunny Sky's solar performance has wowed the rose judging world: a rising star and child of the Earth at the same time. It has been bred to withstand all of those dull rose afflictions that make you reach for a noxious spraygun or spend hours picking off rusted or spotted leaves; it is vigorous from the get-go, tightly formed and has attractive deep green leaves.
The tremendous and generous flowers, up to 10 cm across, start life as a tight apricot coloured bud of thirty furled petals that loosen out to form a cheerful yellow starburst with a compact centre and slightly floppy, wavy outer petals that fade to a delicate sunset pink-peach colour over the season. Regular deadheading in mid-summer will ensure repeat flowering late into November.
Unlike most hybrid teas, Sunny Sky has an airy, citrus fragrance that develops over time to a more familiar classic peach-rose. An essential ingredient for any cutting garden, and an ideal gift for your florist friends and family.

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Using Sunny Sky roses in the Garden

Yellows always look fantastic together with blues and purples, so Lavenders make a brilliant foil to all yellow roses, and Sunny Sky's scented mingles delightfully with them in return. A climber like the clematis Etoile Violette makes a heavenly backdrop, as would any of the Ceanothus shrubs. Rotating the colour wheel further, the fragrant white flowers of Philadelphus Belle Etoile or the magnificence of a white Hydrangea like 'Annabelle' would look like sun and stars together. Even when the roses are not in bloom, the healthy green foliage and hybrid tea habit add an architectural dimension to a border. 

Features:

• Height: 1.2 m
• Colour: warm yellow segues to apricot
• Shape: full and high centred
• Scent: lightly citrus maturing to classic rose
• Disease resistance: Brilliant
• Flowering: Repeat flowering
• Group: Hybrid tea
• Foliage: glossy, luxuriant, olive green and healthy

Did you know?

Hybrid tea roses are the most popular in the world and utilise the repeat flowering advantages of perpetual roses with the show-off virtues of fragrance and colour associated with tea roses. Sunny Sky was bred by Tim Hermann Kordes in Germany and was voted the Rose of the Year 2016 at the Hampton Court Flower show. Rose of the Year was set up in 1982 and involves a 2 year trial of a rose in up to 10 locations all around the United Kingdom. It has won at least seven other awards, including golds at the Monza, La Tacita, Belfast, and The Hague rose trials.