Rosa Pink Mystery - Shrub Rose

The 'Pink Mystery' Rose bush will delight gardeners who appreciate natural varieties. It is a bush resulting from cross-breeding three vigorous and perpetual botanical roses. It produces small bouquets of simple flowers in a mauve pink colour throughout the beautiful, fragrant season. Its elegant, light green foliage is very healthy, reminiscent of rugosa roses. And like a garden reflects its gardener, 'Pink Mystery' will faithfully accompany all unpretentious plants in a slightly wild and romantic garden.

While modern roses are often criticised for their stiffness and weak disease resistance, the 'Pink Mystery' variety, created by L. Lens in 1997, breaks the mould. It is a hybrid resulting from the cross-breeding of Rosa stellata mirifica on one hand and a hybrid between R. bracteata and R. nutkana on the other. This 'Pink Mystery' rose forms a slightly spreading bushy shrub with flexible branches. Its height will reach between 1.20 m (4ft) and 1.50 m (5ft), with a base width of 80-90 cm (32-35in). Its stems are thin, thorny, and greyish-brown in colour. It blooms from June until October. Each flower, measuring 6 cm (2in) in diameter, has five relatively narrow petals in a mauve pink colour. The centre of the flower is widely open to bees and other pollinating insects. The flowers appear at the end of the branches in clusters of 5 to 9 units. Like in the Rosa bracteata, they bloom in pairs or threes and are highly fragrant. The leaf comprises long, toothed leaflets in vibrant green colour. It is bare in winter. The hardiness of this rose is estimated at -15 °C (5°F).

The Pink Mystery hybrid rose, with its botanical rose appearance, will easily find its place in the garden of an enthusiast. It is perfect in a flower bed of robust bushes or perennials and a small country hedge. Pair it with pretty, easy-to-grow plants like hardy geraniums (Geranium Blue Cloud, Anne Folkard, Nimbus, Orion), campanulas (lactiflora, rapunculoides), catmints, landscape roses. Easily create country-style scenes by planting them with dwarf abelias or viburnums.