Common Name: Miniature rose
Genus: Rosa
Cultivar: 'Angela Rippon'
Skill Level: Beginner
Exposure: Full sun
Hardiness: Hardy
Soil type: Well-drained/light, Clay/heavy, Moist
Height: 40cm
Spread: 40cm
Despite its diminutive size, this is a tough and very hardy variety, introduced in 1978 and immediately welcomed for its soft mellow colouring. It is a rose that succeeds singly in a container, or massed in beds and on banks. Plants thrive in a range of soil and weather conditions, and make a perfect dwarf informal hedge covered with colour all summer. The flowers are inevitably small, but they are gathered in clusters and make a massed impact well beyond their size, both as a bedding variety and also for exhibition as a pot plant or cut flower. As a miniature rose, it is best pruned from late winter to early spring. Cut back the stems by about a third. After pruning, apply a rose fertiliser.
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