Tesselaar Plants introduced a line of “decorator roses” – the Sweet Spottm series. The compact shrub roses come in four bloom colors, each punctuated in the center by a deep, saturated hue: Calypso (pinkish red and yellow with red/pink center), Peach (soft peach with red/pink center), Ruby (ruby pink with red/pink center) and Yellow (golden yellow with orange/red center).
The Sweet Spot line will be launched for retail sales in 2014.
“We call them ‘decorator roses’ because of their bold, bright mix of colors – seen everywhere in fashion right now,” says Anthony Tesselaar, cofounder and president of Tesselaar Plants. “They are so unique, so distinct – you can use them to, in fact, decorate your garden, patio and containers.”
Topping out between 16 and 24 inches high and 16 to 20 inches wide (depending on the color), each plant is a prolific bloomer with flowers forming continuously during the flowering season (spring to fall). The varieties are hardy to Zone 5.
Pictured: Sweet Spot Calypso