Incredible Charm: Coral Cove Rose
February 7, 2010 by admin
Filed under Featured, Featured Plant, Shrubs
Simply Delightful…
Sensationally Delicious.
Introducing new ‘Coral Cove’ Easy Elegance Roses
Image courtesy of Baily Nurseries
Copyright © Easy Elegance Roses 2008
Oh what a stunning color! Simply anyone can enjoy this beautiful little shrub rose, ‘Coral Cove’ in their yard or garden. Easy Elegance Roses are so superior in being easy to grow, they come with a 2 Year Guarantee. Be sure to save that receipt, you’ll need it if for some strange reason you have an extraordinary experience.
This is not your grandma’s rose bush!
Image courtesy of Baily Nurseries
Copyright © Easy Elegance Roses 2008
Long on charm, high on color… Coral Cove Rose is also really short on growing issues. You can’t kill an Easy Elegance Rose. Bugs won’t eat all the leaves. You won’t have icky diseases like black spot or mildew either. New selections prove their incredible pest and disease resistance just to earn a spot in the collection offered to increase the beauty of your landscaping and garden design. Shrub roses are the easiest to grow of all rose varieties and Easy Elegance is even better than that.
Coral Cove Rose bushes are compact and will be a great long blooming addition for many spots in your yard. At only 2-feet tall, they easily tuck beneath even low windows and will be fabulous as a driveway hedge that stretches all the way to the street. Very cold hardy, these new rose shrubs will be a cinch for anyone in zones 5-9 to grow. Oh, and don’t worry about having the clip of thousands of spent blooms. Shrub roses don’t need that to look great. Low maintenance and drought tolerant, once establish. Easy Elegance Roses also will easily adapt to many soils and climates.
Coral Cove blooms are a fantastic fusion of hot and pastel colors.
The outer petals and fat rosebuds appear in an pink-orange tone that can be described as persimmon. Each of the many layers of petals grow softer, becoming a whisper of coral at the yellow center. Very yummy natural confections, even while they age.
Coral Cove Rose will continue blasting out vibrant warm color from late spring right up to that first hard frost. An ever blooming selection that you won’t need to spend much time shaping. This bewitching little beauty will form a neatly rounded, dense mound all on it’s own. Leaving you tons of time to kick back and admire the scads of delicious 3 inch wide blooms.
Rosa’BAIlove’ marketed under the trade mark of ‘Coral Cove’ Rose.
Image courtesy of Baily Nurseries
Copyright © Easy Elegance Roses 2008
Look for ‘Coral Cove’ Roses where ever you see the Easy Elegance Rose Collection brand tags on display in the rose department of your local garden center or nursery.
Warning: Knockout Rose Virus Looms
Breakup the Knock Out Rose monoculture.
There are other easy to grow roses.
Easy Elegance® Little Mischief Rose (Rosa ‘BAIief’)
Image courtesy of Bailey Nurseries © 2008
Knockout Roses are everywhere creating the SOS rose planting virus.
Granted they are an excellent landscape rose of high value for many reasons. I fear that they will spread so thick from sea to sea they will become as boring as burning bushes and yews. Knockouts are all incredibly disease resistant which is what makes most of us shun the very idea of growing beautiful rose bushes in our yards. Who has time for all that fussing and coddling? The Knockout Rose collection has heavy blooming, hardy roses that will work in anyone’s garden color scheme. As all roses do, Knockouts are also very drought resistant once established. Oh yes, and the infamous pests that feast on rose foliage aren’t too attracted to the Knockout shrub roses.
Double Knock Out® Rose (Rosa ‘RADtko’ (PP16,202)
Image courtesy of Conard Pyle
Knockout Roses get tons of press coverage.
The plants also have an army of nurseries and box stores selling them too. It isn’t any hype to say that Knockout Roses are all the latest rage. Landscapers and homeowners alike love the entire series of these easy to grow roses. The problem as I see it is that the entire nation will soon have the same 6 shrub roses plastered everywhere.
Sunny Knock Out® Rose (Rosa ‘RADsunny’ PPAF)
Image courtesy of Conard Pyle
Too much of a good thing makes it get old really fast.
Where is the variety … the spice in life, if everywhere you look every yard and shopping center has the same dang roses clogging up the scene? Maybe my mind and eye are far too much into the design aspect of landscape and garden. I balk at the notion that we all have to have the same old roses or any plant for that matter because it is easy to grow and colorful. Perhaps it is my reaction to watching my Dad plant the same three shrubs on hundreds of residential properties my entire life. His idea of variety is to alter the layout and grouping of things. Whatever it is, if you could look past all the marketing hoopla about Knockout Roses you’ll see what everyone’s missing out on.
Let me introduce you to Easy Elegance Roses.
Are you ready for this? They are an even better easy keeper rose collection than the over populating Knockout roses. Better? How about if I let you make your own judgment on Easy Elegance roses versus Knockouts based on the facts. Here’s the biggest difference and the clincher for your decision.
Easy Elegance Roses have a 2-year guarantee from the breeder.
Not from where you purchased them but from the company that mass produces them for your nursery to buy them and offer them to homeowners. Now that is what you call sticking your money where your mouth is. Do you think Knockout Roses would refund your money up to 2 years after you buy one and plant it? Heck no they wouldn’t. Easy Elegance Roses were bred to be top performers in bloom and leaf.
Easy Elegance Roses are the best bet you’ll find.
Pim Ling is so confident that anyone can succeed in growing his roses with ease, he offers you these terms and conditions for satisfaction or your money back:
- Applies to homeowner use only
- Limit of $60, or two per household
- Refund will be in the form of money back (please allow 4-6 weeks for processing)
- Not valid until after June 15th of each year
- Easy Elegance® will administer guarantee for all growers.
- Guarantee may be voided subject to severe weather trends, grower maintenance, or poor retail management.
- Guarantee does not include animal or pest damage.
You have 18 lovely Easy Elegance Roses to choose from, not a mere 7.
Knockout only has 7 different rose plants and a whole lot more invested in advertising too. The heaviest petal count with Knockouts is approximately 25. Easy Elegance has selections that have over 50 petals per rose! Plus they are very hardy own root rose bushes with super pest and disease resistance that bloom all season long. No chemical roses that anyone can grow. Need I say more? Say hello to the two latest releases in the Easy Elegance Rose collection for 2009.
Easy Elegance® High Voltage Rose (Rosa ‘BAIage’ PPAF)
Image courtesy of Bailey Nurseries © 2008
An excellent yellow shrub rose for zones 4-9 that matures to 3′-5′ tall. You’ll have wonderful all season color from the heavily recurring High Voltage Rose. Flowers fully double and fragrant with a petal count of 22. That’s another mark for Easy Elegance Roses, most of them are fragrant not just one single petal bloom variety. Get your hands on the lovely High Voltage Rose today by following this link.
Easy Elegance® Kashmir Rose (Rosa ‘BAImir’ PPAF)
Image courtesy of Bailey Nurseries © 2008
Just look at that magnificent wonder! The Kashmir Rose boasts an incredible 50 petal count per bloom. Disguised like a tea rose and just as wonderful for cutting and taking indoors, Kashmir isn’t fragrant but it makes up for that in decadent beauty. Rich deep red roses 3″ wide will be belting out vibrant color from May through frost. Kashmir is a low growing landscape rose maturing to about 2.5′ high. Alas, no online retailer has seen the need to sell this particular variety. Check around in your area, there might be a nursery that has Kashmir Rose in stock.
Let’s not be prejudiced against the other Easy Elegance Rose selections.
Unfortunately, all 18 Easy Elegance Rose selections are not available for ordering online. I did find some good choices that are available to purchase instantly. Here are some other wonderful colors and sizes from this valuable group of plant it and enjoy low maintenance rose bushes. Click the links below the photos to get plant data like rose bush size and petal count.
Easy Elegance® Sweet Fragrance Rose
Easy Elegance® Grandma’s Blessing Rose
Easy Elegance® Centennial Rose
Easy Elegance® All The Rage Rose
Easy Elegance® Macy’s Pride Rose
Easy Elegance® Mystic Fairy Rose
Easy Elegance® Little Mischief Rose
So why are you just planting only Knock Out Roses again?
There is a lot more flavors of candy to be had from the easy to grow, no pests or disease rose bushes store than you see on the advertising scene. Not that no one is advertising the Easy Elegance Rose series. More options in color and size and the three magic words:
TWO YEAR GUARANTEE
on all 18 varieties of Easy Elegance Roses
Enjoy!
Great Prices on specimen quality roses featured here.
All Easy Elegance rose images are courtesy of Baily Nurseries © 2003-2010.
Great Balls of Beauty
New take on a bodacious bloomer from antiquity.
There are far more reblooming Hydrangeas afloat in the garden scene.
Some of them just seem to get more press than others. Granted Endless Summer Hydrangeas is one fabulous flowering shrub and easy to grow too. Everyone seems to overlook dependable old Annabelle Hydrangea. Maybe it’s because she only produces flowers of white. May I suggest that white is really a necessary addition to your garden design. White brightens and adds pizazz to all the other colors around it. A garden without some white accents is missing out on true brilliance.
Hydrangea arborescens a.k.a. Annabelle Hydrangea has some weak points.
This dependable bloomer does have weak stems that make the shrub loose all presence of shape when in bloom. Following a rain it is infamous for doing the splits in fine form when the huge flowers are weighted with water. Yet, in frigid climates Annabelle guaranteed blooms because it only blooms on new growth. In a cutting garden, Annabelle Hydrangea spouts some humongous specimens if it is sheared to the ground each fall. In a viewing garden … well there was definitely room for some improvements here.
Incrediball Hydrangea image courtesy of Proven Winners.
The breeders have been busy rendering a face lift on Hydrangea arborescens.
The initial results are wonderful. Incrediball™ Hydrangea is one stage stealer in full bloom. You won’t have to worry about it performing like a gymnast every time the sprinkler kicks on or the heavens burst out in raindrops. They have increased the strength of the stems to stop the flop that good old Hydrangea arborescens is so adept at.
You’ll have a powerhouse of incredibly huge blooms with Incrediball™ Hydrangea.
The beyond reliable blooming trait is still intact so even gardeners in zone 3 will still be guaranteed a show of impressively massive snowy white flowers. Incrediball continues to pump out these 10-inch wide eruptions of petals from mid summer until frost puts him to sleep. This easy to grow flowering bush will finish out at 4-5’ high and wide and deliver gold foliage for fall color. Hydrangeas do prefer morning sun only as the heat of afternoon without sufficient moisture guarantees wilt and browning of both leaf edges and blooms.
Incrediball Hydrangea image courtesy of Proven Winners.
Incrediball is not what this article started, I just discovered him after the fact.
Incrediball is already available to purchase for your yard and garden. I highly recommend the beautiful quality of Hydrangeas purchased from the astute growers at Nature Hills Nursery where Incrediball is readily available right now. If you thought that Incrediball Hydrangea was incredible, check this out!
Invincibelle Spirit Hydrangea image courtesy of Proven Winners.
New and totally amazing new twist to Hydrangea arborescens improvements!
You get glorious color guaranteed to bloom its fool head off all the way up in zone 3. The huge pink flower heads of Invincibelle Spirit™ Hydrangea are simply astounding. Give the Proven Winners breeding artisans a round of applause. You will definitely want to reserve a spot for this beauty somewhere in your part shade planting spaces. It won’t be available to buy until next spring, though you just might see it in very short supply as some mail order nursery with clout.
The absolutely marvelous Invincibelle Spirit™ Hydrangea will also mature to 4-5’.
At least for those who live where the old wood isn’t frost bitten to the soil. In zone 3, it might become more of a perennial but don’t despair Invincibelle Spirit will still pump out blooms even with a vertically challenged presence. Lovely fall gold foliage on this easy to grow blooming shrub puts a welcome good night kiss on the face of your plantings in late fall.
Do remember the best soil for exquisite performance with Hydrangeas.
While both Incrediball and Invincibelle Spirit will readily adapt to a wide range of growing conditions, they are still hydrangea shrubs. Hydrangeas prefer cool, well draining soil that is rich in humus to hold some moisture. They also will need daily watering to remain at their very best. Dry spells don’t necessarily kill them but they definitely look a bit beat up for the remainder of the season when this unpleasant experience befalls them.
A yard without the decadence of Hydrangea blooms …
Is like an entire summer without sunshine.
Nomenclature:
Incrediball ™ Hydrangea / Hydrangea arborescens ‘Abetwo’ PPAF, CBRAF
Invincibelle Spirit™ Hydrangea / Hydrangea arborescens ‘NCHA1’ PPAF, CBRAF
New Hip Couture for Fall
Delightful yellow summer blooms transform to fall berry beauty.
Designer colored berries for outdoors and indoor bouquets.
Introducing Mystical™ Beauty St. John’s Wort
Image courtesy of Novalis © 2008
Large salmon-pink berries to enjoy for months on end.
St. John’s Wort for your landscape is not the same type of Hypericum as those grown as ornamental plants. There are 27 species of Hypericum, spanning from ground cover to shrub type plants. Very few of them are used as an ornamental plant. Hypericum calycinum, which is used as a ground cover. H. androsaemum is the most common shrub form used in ornamental applications. Common St. John’s Wort or Hypericum perforatum is the plant used for herbal remedies and is best placed in an herb garden.
Hips of Hypericum (berries) are highly valued by florists and are in the top 50 cut flowers grown for the floral trade. True “St. John’s Wort” has been cultivated for centuries for medicinal uses. In modern landscapes Hypericum is valued for its drought tolerance with the creeping varieties being a common ground cover on steep, sunny slopes. The yellow blooms add color from late spring until late summer, replaced by bright colored berries in September that hang on through winter. In warmer zones, the plant is semi-evergreen.
Mystical™ Red Star St. John’s Wort © 2008
Image courtesy of Bailey Nurseries © 2008
Large red berries that are sure to brighten your garden in fall.
Hypericum can be highly susceptible to a foliage disfiguring disease known as Rust. There is no chemical cure for this rust problem. Rust starts out as yellow and red spots on the leaves, then by midsummer, the foliage turns an unsightly brown making the entire dead plant look. The old fashioned solution was to shear the entire plant off close to the ground. When it grows back it will be disease free. New cultivar hybrid Hypericum x inodorum was specifically bred to be rust resistant especially for the floral trade. Known as the Mystical™ Hypericum series, this group of newcomers is extremely rust resistant because florists do not buy stems with foliar diseases.
Mystical™ Black St. John’s Wort
Image courtesy of Novalis © 2008
Stunning large black berries that will complement the vibrant colors of fall.
In response to the floral trade’s demands for bigger, brighter berries and the absence of marred foliage we have exciting new garden and landscape shrubs. The most highly berry-iferous Hypericum plants in existence are now coming into the market for homeowners to buy. Prepare to get really excited about a summer shower of trouble-free yellow blooms and a choice of berry colors for fall color. This group of plants known as the Hypericum Mystical™ series from the Plants That Work® collection. Now you enjoy masses of large, designer colored berries on beautifully branched plants.
Mystical™ Orange Hypericum
Image courtesy of Novalis © 2008
Perfect for a sunny planting bed where fall color will be cluster of large orange berries.
Don’t worry about cutting stems of berries for bouquets, or even cutting whole plants back hard to clean up a rust attack. Hypericum just grows right back … it is one tough and easy to grow shrub. Get a floral pro touch growing your own decorator colored berries without unsightly rust damage on these colorful shrubs. Mystical™ Hypericums are a cross between H. androsaemum and H. hircinum to reduce the threat of rust. All require full sun and moist well-drained soil, mature at 2.5’-3’ high and wide. (Hardy in zones 5-9.) Lovely as a single specimen plant or arranged in showy drifts of color.
Mystical™ Sweetheart Hypericum
Image courtesy of Conard Pyle © 2008
Berries are small on this one, but oh so lovely in white with a pink blush.
Look for these easy to grow, low maintenance landscape and garden shrubs in nurseries and garden centers that carry the Plants That Work Collection of perennials, shrubs and trees. You may find some limited availability as early as Spring 2009.
Trademark and Nomenclature
Hypericum x inodorata Mystical™ Orange ‘Kolmoran’ PP#13,411
Hypericum x inodorata Mystical™ Beauty ‘Kolmblack’ PP#14,911
Hypericum x inodorata Mystical™ Red Star ‘Kolmred’ PP#13,554
Hypericum x inodorata Mystical™ Sweetheart ‘Kolmsweet’ PP#13,533
Hypericum x inodorata Mystical™ Beauty’Kolmbeau’ PP#13,532