Rosa Escimo

Rosa Escimo has won numerous awards in international competitions. It holds the highly demanding German ADR label, reserved for the most disease-resistant varieties. This landscape bush is vigorous, has a harmonious habit, is well-branched, and compact. It offers an endless white flowering of beautiful wild roses. The flowers are not stained by rain, even in autumn. In the garden, it will easily accompany all plants.

While modern roses are often criticised for their stiffness and weak disease resistance, Escimo (KORmifari), created by Kordes in 1991, truly stands out. Its vigour and abundance of flowers have earned it numerous awards in Barcelona, Tokyo, and Rome. It received the Certificate of Merit from Orléans in 2010, and the gold medal from Monza in 2009. This polyantha rose, belonging to the landscape roses, forms a small bushy shrub with a rather spreading but dense and regular habit. It will reach a height of about 80cm (32in) and a width of 1m (3ft). From June until the first frost, it produces beautiful pure white single flowers with open cups, 4 to 5cm (2in) wide. They are centred on a golden stamen heart. The roses are gathered in clusters, blooming on glossy dark green foliage. The fruits are rose hips that turn from tender green to bright red when ripe. They persist on the bare branches in winter, depending on the appetite of birds.

Escimo is robust and hardy. It is easy to grow in all regions, and will do without watering once well established. Its vigour, small size, floribundity, and ease of maintenance make it a versatile rose. It will be superb in a large border or shrub bed. It pairs perfectly with yellow-flowered roses (Persian Yellow, Canary Bird), orange-flowered roses (Fighting Temeraire, Amber Sun, Mrs Oakley Fisher), or pink-flowered roses (The Fairy, Astronomia, Pomponella). It can also be combined with small-sized shrubs such as dwarf abelias, caryopteris, shrubby artemisias, and many others.

About the ADR label: created in 1950, this German label is awarded every year to exceptional roses. They are judged under different growing conditions and on different criteria, including the beauty of the plant, its habit, the abundance of its flowering, its hardiness, and its disease resistance without preventive or curative treatment. Since the creation of this label, over 1700 roses have been tested and examined, but only 183 have obtained the label.