Rosa Frau Eva Schubert - Climbing Rose

The 'Frau Eva Schubert' Rose is a superb hybrid of Rosa multiflora and R. moschata created by Tepelmann in 1937. With a flexible habit, this vigorous climbing rose has a very recurrent flowering and offers sublime bouquets of small double flowers ranging from pink to white, slightly fragrant. They bloom on particularly abundant, light green and healthy foliage. This charming climbing rose is easy to grow in many regions. Its graceful habit invites you to train it loosely to let it cascade as it pleases. It is also stunning in a large shrub bed or a flowering hedge.

When left to grow without constraints, the 'Frau Eva Schubert' Rose has a generous and bushy habit, reaching an average height and spread of 1.60 m (5ft) in all directions. Its arching habit allows it to be pruned and trained on a support such as an arch, an obelisk, a wire fence, or a wall covered with a large trellis. In this case, it will climb up to 3 m (10ft) in height and even up to 4 m (13ft). The flexible stems of this climbing rose are not very thorny, and the plant does not become bare at the base. They bear abundant, deciduous foliage composed of light green leaflets. Its flowering is particularly abundant in June and in September-October. Grouped in large panicles, the buds display a soft pink colour. They open into double flowers, 4-5 cm (2in) wide, in an old-fashioned style. Their fragrance is light. The disease resistance of this rose is excellent under good growing conditions, as well as its ability to withstand strong frosts, around -20°C (-4°F).

Despite being 90 years old, the 'Frau Eva Schubert' Rose has not lost any of its charm, and it fully deserves to be planted in the garden of rose enthusiasts. Hardy and vigorous, it adapts to all soils that are not too dry and to all climates, allowing it to be planted in any garden. It will integrate perfectly into a landscape hedge, enhancing the foliage of dogwoods and viburnums. Due to its very natural habit, it can be trained as a large shrub and combined with all kinds of summer-flowering shrubs or decorative foliage plants. Large-flowered clematis (Lucky Charm, Sucess Bleu de Loire, Star of India) complement its small pompom-shaped clusters well.

If you have enough space, English, Old, or Shrub Roses are stunning when planted in groups of three. They will grow together to form one opulent bush that will flower even more generously.