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Scientific Name: Rosa glauca var. rubrifolia

Also Known As

Rosa rubrifolia
Red Leaf Rose

Plant type

shrub, perennial

size

H: 5'-8'
W: 6'-9'

planting zones

2a-10b

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Rosa glauca plant details

Rosa glauca is a broadleaf deciduous perennial shrub with blue and purple foliage. In fall, spring and summer pink flowers emerge followed by red fruit. Attracts bees making it an excellent addition to pollinator gardens. Grows well with sun - mostly shade and regular - low water. Drought tolerant once established. Does well in clay, gritty, rich and well-drained soil.

CHARACTERISTICS OF Rosa glauca

Plant type: perennial shrub
Plant family: rosaceae
Foliage: deciduous blue and purple
Mature size: 6 FT - 9 FT - wide, 5 FT - 8 FT - tall
Flowers: pink blooms in fall, spring and summer
Uses: border plant, cutting garden, fragrant, showy hips

GROWING CONDITIONS for Rosa glauca

USDA Zones: 2a - 10b
Sun exposure: sun - mostly shade
Watering frequency: regular - low

Soil needs: clay, gritty, rich and well-drained

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Nursery contributed plant descriptions

I've been looking for this plant to offer for several years and finally found a source of two-gallon plants. This species of rose has purple foliage all summer. Can get to 8' tall in time. Flowers are small pink in June. This is one of the nice shrub roses to plant.

By: Gossler Farms

This fine 6-8' rose comes to us from the mountains of central and southern Europe. Unlike other roses, this one is often grown for its foliage of outstanding smoky-purple. Lovely, single, fragrant pink star-shaped flowers on this vase-shaped shrub are pretty too! Orange rose hips in fall persist into winter and make for nice contrast with the violet stems. S/M

By: Forestfarm

Single pink flowers grace this lovely arching shrub. Greyish-purple foliage and deep purple stems. Rose hips maintain through fall and winter.

By: Garden World

Celebrated for its dreamy, pewter-blue serrated foliage and the elegant simplicity of its single, light-centered, clear pink flowers, this princely shrub has a tranquil persona. Nearly thornless, medium-sized canes transmute purple hues, while offering quantities of shiny, oval-shaped coppery red hips that spice up the off-season landscape. Indigenous to central and southern Europe's mountains, Rosa glauca has been cultivated as a gracefully arching medium-sized specimen since the early 1800s and in our garden, it passes time alongside a silver-leafed Teucrium fruticans (Select Form).

By: Digging Dog Nursery

Small single pink flowers on arching, 6 ft. canes and purple foliage with a bluish cast. Seedlings should be selected for dark purple flowers and disease resistance. Grow it in an open site where it will get lots of sun.

By: Heritage Seedlings

The single rose blossoms range from a pleasing pastel pink to white. But this is a rose grown as much for the gorgeous red hips that persist much of the year, and its dark purple foliage color that provides a wonderful foil to the silvers and greens that dominate our xeriscapes. This hardy blooming shrub thrives just about anywhere providing graceful presence with no effort, beautifying the dry garden all year around. Clay, sandy soil or loam. USDA zones 3-9 (up to 9000').

By: Plant Select®

A beloved Rose with soft pewter folaige and purplish canes which carry elegantly the single pink flowers followed by the quietly nice red/orange hips. Barely thorned, it moves with grace in the wind working as a hedge, a back-border element or a single specimen. Nice with Thalictrum 'Elin'.

By: Far Reaches Farm

As unique a Rose as can be found - the dusky, purple hued leaves of this shrub may confound garden visitors accustomed to the common Rose bush. Beautiful & striking in or out of bloom, its single 2” pink-blushed flowers are borne in clusters, & glow against the dark leaves. Bloom time is Spring & as this species is a once-bloomer, you won't get a repeat performance, but showy orange red hips follow the flowers & often persist through the Winter, adding interest to the plant. These make great cut flower material, too! Rosa glauca makes a handsome hedge, but can also mix easily into mixed borders. Mature plants have an upright habit with arching stems & can grow 7’ tall & 5’ or more wide. Drought tolerant, disease resistant & shade tolerant as well. What a package!

By: Annie's Annuals & Perennials

Grown as much for its foliage as its flowers this deciduous shrub, to 6 ft tall x 5 ft wide, has glaucous blue foliage and, in June, single pink flowers with white centers. Lovely rose hips follow and remain through the winter. Happy in a sunny garden spots some summer water. Disease resistant. Frost hardy in USDA zone 2.

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