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Introducing Easy Elegance Roses

Roses are the beauty queens of the floral world, lighting up the garden with their gorgeous blooms. But they can also be temperamental; prone to diseases and pest problems and susceptible to extreme weather. Our parents cosseted their roses; spraying, dusting and wrapping the delicate beauties to get them through chilly winters. Most modern gardeners simply don’t have the time for all that fussing, and, as the result, many have given up on the shrubs.

Now, Easy Elegance® roses have changed all that. This collection of new varieties gives gardeners all the traditional rose virtues, including a wide array of colors, recurrent blooms, a selection of flower forms and a choice of plant sizes. Many of the Easy Elegance® Roses grow to be only two to three feet tall, making them perfect for smaller gardens and even container culture. Add in hardiness, pest and disease resistance, and you have a gardener’s dream come true. Even rose skeptics will be won over by the many charms of these singular roses.

About Easy Elegance® Roses

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The twenty-five roses in the Easy Elegance® line were bred and selected by fabled hybridizer and rosarian Ping Lim. Like all rose breeders, Lim looked for beauty when making the complex crosses required to produce superior plants, but he also bred the plants for toughness. The young shrubs were carefully watched, and received no chemical help, even when exposed to situations conducive to diseases like black spot and powdery mildew. Only the strongest and most beautiful survived this rigorous process.

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Easy Elegance® roses are tough for another important reason—they grow on their own roots. For the past four decades most commercially grown roses have been grafted, a process that involves splicing a desirable, but tender variety onto the tougher rootstock of a second variety. You can tell that a rose has been grafted by looking closely at the main trunk a few inches above the root line. Grafted roses have a distinctive knot or thickening where the two rose varieties were joined together; “own root” roses do not.

The advantage of own root roses is that once established they are very resilient. If you live in a northern climate, for example, and severe winter weather causes your roses to die back to the ground, the desirable, the top growth of your grafted rose will die off. If the plant regrows, the flowers will be those of the rootstock plant, which are usually less desirable. Own root roses, on the other hand, can handle difficult times. If winter’s freezing breezes kill the top growth, the rose will grow back in the spring, and the recovered rose will look the same as the one you purchased.

Tahitian Moon

Most of all, Easy Elegance® roses are beautiful. From the elegant, apricot ‘Centennial’, to the sweet, pink ‘Grandma’s Blessing’, to the vivid orange blossoms of ‘Orange Impressionist’, there is something for every taste and garden situation.

Easy Elegance® roses let you spend less time tending the flowers and more time enjoying them.

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