Rosa Wildeve - English Shrub Rose

The English rose Wildeve is almost perfect: slender, repeat flowering, disease resistant, with a deliciously fresh fragrance. The flower buds are scarlet pink; and then become tinted with pale pink, nuanced with apricot, as they open. This variety with a spreading habit can be used as a shrub in the foreground or as a groundcover rose.

This particularly robust and healthy shrub produces long arched branches, which are very floriferous. This proves to be an advantage when integrating it into natural-inspired flowerbeds, as it gives it a lot of flexibility and versatility. Vigorous and fast-growing, it can cover an area of 1 to 2 m² in just a few seasons. 'Wildeve' shows very good resistance to diseases, reblooms regularly from summer to frost, even if its flowers are quite short-lived, and offers a pleasant, very fresh fragrance.

Rose Wildeve is a useful variety for somewhat messy areas of the garden, or in slightly poor soil, to create a backdrop for clumps of irises, for example. It will also bring a floral touch to sunny rockeries, but will also thrive in a large pot where its spreading silhouette gracefully cascades. It will also grow well on a slope or bank which is not too dry, in the company of catmints, a true groundcover rose like the salmon orange rose R. decorosier 'Calizia' , or the magenta pink rose 'Magic Meillandécor'. The branches will quickly spread along the slope and eventually cover it with flowers. You can also plant it on the edge of a pond or water feature, use it to fill the base of a tree, or let it cascade from a wall, naturally and elegantly.

Bred by David Austin in 2003.