Rosa Pink Flash - Shrub Rose

Rosa  Pink Flash is an excellent, recent French creation, already rewarded with 8 European medals. It has strong and abundant flowering in an almost fluorescent magenta pink that only the cold will stop, with beautiful shiny foliage, disease-resistant, and needing little attention. This variety will become essential in the garden where its sparkling little wild roses will make you happy as ground cover, in a border, a flowerbed, a small hedge, or even in a large container on the terrace or balcony.

The flowers of Rosa Pink Flash are gathered in terminal clusters, they come from the polyantha rose, an old hybrid resulting from Rosa multiflora and Rosa chinensis. This small, flexible and spreading bush is wider than it is tall and partly drooping. It will reach about 60 cm (24in) high and 80 cm (32in) wide in a few years. The single flowers, 3 to 5 cm (1 to 2in) in diameter, with 5 petals, in the shape of flat cups, are produced in abundance from May to October if the soil remains moist. They are a very pure magenta pink, enhanced by a pretty golden stamen centre. They bloom in large clusters, until the frost. This very vigorous and very disease-resistant variety develops superb, dense and dark green foliage and its stems bear thorns.

Medals and awards: Gold Medal in 2009 in The Hague (Netherlands), Monza (Italy), Courtrai (Belgium) and Orléans (France). Silver Medal in 2010 in Baden Baden (Germany) and Glasgow (Scotland). Certificate of Merit in 2010 in Saverne (France). Bronze Certificate in 2014 in The Hague (Netherlands).

Creation Travers, France, 2011.

The Pink Flash rose thrives in all soils that are not too dry and in all climates, which allows it to be grown in many regions. It is wonderful when planted en masse in a long border, in a rock garden or on a slope where it will cover the ground. It can also be planted in groups of 3, arranged in a triangle, in the middle of a lawn. Plant it en mases to highlight the layout of a path or the shrub beds. It will integrate perfectly with beds of light or opulent perennials. For example, it can be associated with perennial geraniums (Geranium 'Blue Cloud', 'Anne Folkard', 'Nimbus', 'Orion'), bellflowers (lactiflora, rapunculoides), catmints, snapdragons, foxgloves or Stachys. Left to grow freely, it forms a sparkling dome in any setting. It can also be planted in front of a flower shrub bed composed of abelias, Kolwitzia, mock oranges, elderberries or lilacs, for example.