Rosa Oso Easy Italian Ice® (Groundcover Rose)

Self-cleaning and very disease resistant, Rosa Oso Easy Italian Ice® is a compact shrub rose boasting a profusion of semi-double, soft yellow flowers, 24-30 petals, adorned with pink blushed margins. The blossoms stand out against the dark green, glossy foliage. Blooming continuously from summer to frost, the showy flowers entice passing butterflies to use them as perfect landing pads. Easy to grow, low maintenance, and cold-hardy, this shrub rose brings cheerful color to the garden or landscape. Perfect for mixed borders and beds, as a flowering groundcover, patio containers where it will command attention, it suits every garden and lifestyle.

• Recipient of the Royal National Rose Society Show Trial Ground Certificate.
• Grows in a rounded, bushy, and well-behaved shrub, up to 18-30 in. tall and wide (45-75 cm).
• Best grown in full sun in fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil. For best flowering apply a balanced fertilizer and mulch in late winter or early spring and a balanced fertilizer again in early summer. Salt tolerant.
• An excellent choice for beds and borders, city gardens, coastal gardens, cottage gardens, patio containers, or as a colorful groundcover.
• Keep an eye out for aphids, rose leafhoppers, scale insects, caterpillars, large rose sawflies, rose leaf-rolling sawflies, black spots, rose rust, and rose powdery mildew.
• Pruning is generally not needed, but this shrub may be shaped in spring. It does not need spraying.
• Propagate by hardwood cuttings in autumn or by chip budding in summer.