Brindabella Red Empress Shrub Rose – 2 Gallon Pot

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A shrub rose that produces fully-formed double flowers that look like a tea rose, but have excellent disease resistance to fungal diseases such as leaf spot and powdery mildew? Meet the Brindabella Red Empress Shrub Rose, a vigorous beauty that sets the new standard for shrubs roses with superior genetics for disease resistance and a fragrance that will stop any passerby in their tracks. 

Red Empress produces an abundance of super-fragrant, fully double, flowers that emerge from red buds and open to violet or fuchsia shade during summer or crimson fuchsia in cooler temperatures. Reblooms in 6-week cycles throughout the season to frost and the flowers have the most perfume the you could ever expect in a rose in the truest sense. Also, the flowers are self-cleaning, which means no deadheading required. Though very vigorous, this low maintenance rose grows to only 4 feet tall and wide in 2 years time. Very well suited to home gardens and commercial landscapes alike.

Growing 4 to 5 feet tall and wide, the Brindabella Red Empress Rose is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings or as a colorful hedge in landscape and flowering shrub borders and home foundation plantings. A fine addition to rose gardens and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 3.5 feet apart for hedges; 8 feet apart for space between plants

The Brindabella Red Empress Rose is easy to grow in average, moist but well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. As with all other roses, to avoid powdery mildew, morning sun is a must to dry dew from the leaves. Afternoon shade or filtered sun is fine. We suggest 6 hours of direct sun light for best flowering.

Maintenance is minimal requiring no pruning or deadheading through the growing season, though you can deadhead if you like for shaping purposes and to encourage quicker rebloom. To keep your rose full and bushy from year to year, in late winter or very early spring the plant can be pruned back to about 18 inches above the ground. After this hard pruning, your rose will quickly flush out and start blooming with the arrival of warmer spring temperatures.

Plant and care for the Brindabella Red Empress Rose as you would Knock Out Roses. Click on the link below to find helpful advice from our experts.