Heather Cottage rose
Rosa 'Heather Cottage'
Certificate of Merit,Silver Medal
USDA zones5 to 11
SunNeeds full sun (6+ hours)
- Habit
- Spreading
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Bloom color
- Medium red
- Foliage color
- Dark green
- Soil types
- Loam, clay
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
'Heather Cottage' rose (Rosa 'Heather Cottage') is a shrub for borders, cottage gardens, containers, and cut flowers. It is hardy to USDA zone 5, or down to -20°F (-29°C). This plant likes full sun and loamy or clay soil. Medium red blooms open from early to late summer and have a sweet fragrance. Bees visit the flowers. Mogens Nyegaard Olesen bred it in 2005.
Pairs well with Garden phlox, Little bluestem, and Bridal wreath spiraea.