Rosa x floribunda 'Triple Treat' (Rosenstadt Freising) - Shrub Rose

The 'Rosenstadt Freising' Rose, also known as 'Triple Treat', is a beautiful variety with clustered flowers, both highly disease resistant and with long-lasting unusual colour. Despite its value, this wonderful creation by German rose breeder Kordes is not widely spread in France. It produces picturesque and delightful roses born from red and pointed buds. They bloom into lively double flowers, harmoniously blending ivory-white, different shades of pink, and even magenta red, applied in delicate brushstrokes. They only lack fragrance, a small oversight largely compensated by the ease of cultivation and excellent health of this robust bush, unlike any other.

The 'Rosenstadt Freising' Rose or 'KORcoptru' was created by Kordes in Germany in 2003. It crosses 'Coppelia'76' (floribunda Meilland) and Flower Carpet Rose®. It belongs to the floribunda rose category, with flowers grouped in large corymbs at the tips of young shoots. This relatively fast-growing variety quickly forms an upright and bushy shrub with thorny stems, reaching a height of 1.2 meters (4 feet) and a width of 80 cm (32in). It is covered with foliage divided into five thick and toothed leaflets, dark green and highly glossy in summer. It blooms abundantly from June to October. Its 7 cm (3in) wide corollas are double, composed of 26 to 40 petals whose colour evolves as the flower matures. Initially ivory-white edged with deep pink, they gradually become pale pink with more or less red or pink areas. Initially quite regular, these roses open into flat, slightly loose and tousled cups, revealing a centre filled with yellow stamens. They are arranged in long bouquets of several flowers.

Floribunda roses can be used to create beautiful hedges of varying heights depending on the varieties, planted mixed along the edge of a patio or in shrub beds with suitable pruning. Combine them with abelias, nandinas, or caryopteris, for example. They are good companions for phlox paniculata and tall gypsophila. The beautiful stature and uniqueness of the polyantha rose 'Rosenstadt Freising' Rose make it an exciting variety for cultivation as a standalone plant in gardens with limited space and growing in large pots on a patio or balcony. Its uses are multiple, according to the gardener's desires: in a small hedge along a path, in a rose bed with white varieties, or mixed with easy-to-grow perennials such as geraniums, astrantias, foxgloves, bellflowers, or asters.