Wild Blue Yonder is a rose that improves with age. With each passing year, this rose improves in flower intensity. It’s a brilliantly colored selection that was honored as an All-America Rose Selection winner in 2006. Use as a hedge, along a border or in a cut-flower garden.
Why grow Wild Blue Yonder?
• Reddish-purple flowers have a light lavender base and a camellia shape. The flowers are quite large – up to 4½ inches in diameter. It flowers in late spring then again in early fall.
• This vigorous rose is fragrant – a mixture of citrus and old rose scent.
• It’s a tough plant that is heat tolerant and resistant to mildew and rust.
Photo by Sally Estee, courtesy of American Rose Society, www.ars.org
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