Overview

Introduce a touch of classic romance to your garden with the exquisite Grande Dame Hybrid Tea Rose Plant. This live plant is celebrated for its robust growth and exceptionally fragrant, deep pink flowers, making it a truly captivating addition to any outdoor space. Revered for its old-fashioned charm, the Grande Dame rose is a vigorous hybrid tea variety that consistently produces an abundance of large, showy blooms. Each flower, measuring approximately 6 inches wide, showcases a rich, saturated hot pink hue, making a striking visual impact in any landscape. Beyond its visual appeal, this rose is particularly prized for its strong, damask fragrance that can fill your garden with a delightful perfume. Ideal for cutting, these beautiful blossoms bring their captivating scent and vibrant color indoors, creating stunning floral arrangements. The Grande Dame Hybrid Tea Rose Plant is a reliable performer, blooming in flushes from late spring through mid-fall, ensuring a continuous display of beauty and fragrance. This fragrant rose plant promises to be a focal point in your garden.

Key Benefits

The Grande Dame Hybrid Tea Rose Plant offers numerous advantages, making it a highly desirable addition to any garden. Its combination of beauty, fragrance, and resilience provides a rewarding gardening experience and enhances the aesthetic appeal of your outdoor space.

• Exceptional Fragrance: Enjoy the classic, strong damask fragrance of these beautiful deep pink blooms, perfect for perfuming your garden and home. The intoxicating scent is a hallmark of this fragrant rose plant, creating an inviting atmosphere.
• Stunning Deep Pink Blooms: Produces large, 6-inch wide, saturated hot pink flowers that create a dramatic and beautiful display, adding vibrant color to your landscape. These eye-catching blossoms ensure your garden stands out.
• Excellent for Cutting: The long-stemmed, fragrant flowers are ideal for creating elegant bouquets and floral arrangements, bringing the garden’s beauty and captivating scent indoors to brighten any room.
• Vigorous Growth Habit: This hybrid tea rose is known for its strong, upright spreading growth, reaching about 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide, filling out beautifully and providing substantial presence.
• Repeat Bloomer: Enjoy flushes of blooms from late spring to mid-fall, ensuring a continuous show of color and fragrance throughout the growing season, maximizing your enjoyment.
• Hardy and Resilient: Exhibits good tolerance to urban pollution and adapts well to various soil types, making it a robust choice for many garden settings and reducing maintenance concerns.
• Long-Lived Plant: With proper care, this Grande Dame Hybrid Tea Rose Plant can thrive for approximately 20 years, providing many seasons of enjoyment and lasting beauty.

Plant Care & Growing Tips

Proper hybrid tea rose care is essential for the Grande Dame to flourish and produce its spectacular blooms. This vigorous shrub thrives when given the right conditions, ensuring a healthy and long-lasting display in your garden. The Grande Dame Rose requires full sunlight to perform its best, meaning at least six hours of direct sun exposure daily. Choose a location in your garden that receives ample morning sun, which helps dry dew from the leaves and reduces the risk of fungal diseases. While it prefers consistent moisture, it’s crucial to ensure good drainage, as this plant will not tolerate standing water. Well-draining soil is key; amend heavy clay soils with organic matter to improve aeration and drainage. This rose is not particular about soil type or pH, making it adaptable to various garden conditions, which simplifies hybrid tea rose care.

Watering should be consistent, especially during dry spells and the plant’s active growing season. Deep watering is preferred, encouraging roots to grow deeper into the soil. Fertilize your Grande Dame Hybrid Tea Rose Plant regularly during the growing season with a balanced rose fertilizer to support its prolific blooming. Pruning is important for maintaining shape, promoting new growth, and encouraging more flowers; typically, prune in early spring before new growth begins. Remove any dead, damaged, or crossing branches. This old-fashioned rose shrub is an interspecific hybrid and is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution, making it a good choice for city gardens. It is a deciduous shrub, meaning it will lose its leaves in winter. Ensure adequate air circulation around the plant to prevent common rose diseases. For best results, consider its mature size and spread when planting, ensuring it has enough space to flourish.

Size & Details

You will receive a Grande Dame Hybrid Tea Rose Plant as a starter plant, typically 5-7 inches tall. This live plant is shipped without a pot, ready for immediate planting in your garden or a suitable container. At maturity, this vigorous shrub will grow to be approximately 5 feet tall with a spread of about 4 feet. Its upright spreading habit allows it to fill out nicely, often eliminating the need for facer plants. It grows at a medium rate and, under ideal conditions, can live for approximately 20 years, providing decades of beautiful blooms. This deep pink rose bush is suitable for planting under power lines due to its manageable mature height. Plant in full sun for optimal flowering and fragrance, ensuring it receives the necessary energy to produce its stunning blooms.

Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: How big does this Grande Dame Hybrid Tea Rose Plant get? A: The Grande Dame Rose will typically grow to about 5 feet tall with a spread of 4 feet at maturity, providing a substantial and beautiful presence in your garden. This mature size makes it a striking feature in any landscape design.
• Q: What size pot does it come in? A: You will receive a starter plant that is 5-7 inches tall, shipped without a pot, ready for planting directly into your garden or a larger container upon arrival. This allows for flexible planting options.
• Q: Is this an indoor or outdoor plant? A: The Grande Dame Hybrid Tea Rose is an outdoor plant, best suited for garden beds where it can receive full sunlight and adequate air circulation to thrive. It is not recommended for indoor cultivation.
• Q: How much sunlight does it need? A: This fragrant rose plant thrives in full sunlight, requiring at least six hours of direct sun exposure daily for optimal growth, prolific flowering, and strong fragrance development.
• Q: Is this plant easy to care for? A: While roses require consistent attention, the Grande Dame is a vigorous variety that, with proper attention to sunlight, watering, and feeding, is manageable for most gardeners. Following guidelines for hybrid tea rose care will ensure its success.
• Q: What condition will it arrive in? A: Your plant will arrive as a healthy, unpotted starter plant, carefully packaged to ensure its safe journey and readiness for immediate planting.
• Q: Can I use the blooms for cutting? A: Yes, the large, fragrant deep pink blooms of the Grande Dame rose are excellent for cutting and make beautiful, long-lasting floral arrangements that will fill your home with their delightful scent.
• Q: How long until it blooms? A: With proper care, your Grande Dame Hybrid Tea Rose Plant should begin to produce its fragrant blooms in flushes from late spring to mid-fall, often in its first growing season, providing beauty relatively quickly.
• Q: When is the best time to plant this old-fashioned rose shrub? A: The best time to plant is typically in the spring or fall when temperatures are moderate, allowing the plant to establish its root system before extreme weather.
• Q: Will it survive winter in my zone? A: Roses generally thrive in USDA hardiness zones 5-9. Check your specific zone to ensure it’s suitable, or provide winter protection if you are in a colder zone to help it survive.
• Q: Is it tolerant of urban pollution? A: Yes, this particular variety of deep pink rose bush is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution, making it suitable for city gardens where air quality might be a concern.