Rosa x polyantha Satina - Groundcover Rose

The Ground Cover Rose Satina offers a profusion of double flowers, in a soft and bright pink colour, with a light fruity fragrance, gathered in clusters on very compact vegetation. They bloom from June until the first frost, resting on a dense foliage, which is a glossy green colour and very healthy. This robust and refined rose is perfect for low borders, groundcovers, slopes, and large planters.

The Rose Satina is an improvement of the excellent rose The Fairy, offering larger, more fragrant flowers, and an earlier flowering period on a more compact shrub. The plant has compact, robust, and bushy growth, with a wide and spreading habit. Its numerous medium-sized roses, up to 4-5 cm (2in) in size, are a delicate pink colour, and appear in tight clusters. Its foliage is glossy, very healthy, with a very pronounced green colour. A magnificent shrub, which is very robust with abundant and continuous flowering, whose faded flowers are removed without the need for pruning.

Tantau 1992 breeding (Germany).

The Rose Satina is perfect for low borders, groundcover, slopes, and large planters. It works wonders in rockeries or on a slope, where it will cover the ground. It can also be planted in groups of three, arranged in a triangle.  When planted en masse, it can also border pathways and highlight shrub borders. It will integrate perfectly into 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 other Stachys. If left unpruned, it will form a round and flowered dome, wildly romantic in front of a flowering shrub border composed of abelias, Kolwitzia, mock oranges, elderberries, or shrubby artemisias.