Rosa New Vesuvia - shrub rose

The Decorosier New Vesuvia Rose Bush, intended to replace the excellent variety Vesuvia, closely resembles it, but its magnificent red flowers are larger and even more vibrant. Classified in the category of shrub roses, it is an excellent rose bush capable of forming a superb ground cover due to its low, dense, and well-covering habit. It is strong and floriferous and provides an exceptional, almost permanent decoration requiring very little maintenance, and a long uninterrupted flowering from May until the first frost. It is disease-resistant and well-suited for informal mass planting in gardens, alongside simple perennials or shrubs with colourful foliage.

The 'New Vesuvia' rose is classified as a modern, groundcover shrub rose. Its clustered flowers come from the polyantha rose, an old hybrid derived from Rosa multiflora and Rosa chinensis. It is a very dense bush, 70 to 80 cm (28 to 32in) tall, forming a slightly spreading dome about 90 cm (35in) to 1 m (3ft) wide, depending on growing conditions. It is very floriferous and produces an abundance of 6-7 cm (2-3in) diameter, barely semi-double, deep red flowers from May to October with a beautiful cluster of golden yellow stamens. They have no fragrance, but they are visited by pollinating insects. The foliage of this rose is more or less evergreen in winter depending on the climate. It consists of small, shiny dark green leaves that cover its thorny stems. Its disease resistance is excellent. This variety tolerates heat well.

The New Vesuvia rose is suitable for mass plantings, flower beds, large spaces, slopes, or low hedges, in containers, etc. It adapts to all soils that are not too wet and all climates, allowing it to be grown from the north to the south. It has a well-covering growth habit that works well on a slope, where it will cover the ground. When planted en masse, it will also border pathways and highlight flower beds. For example, it can be grown with perennial geraniums (Geranium Blue Cloud, Anne Folkard, Nimbus, Orion), campanulate flowers (lactiflora, rapunculoides), catmints, lavenders, snapdragons, foxgloves, or Stachys. Left to grow freely, it will form a loosely shaped, blooming, and cloudy bush, with a very natural appearance in front of a flowering shrub border.