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Rosa glauca
Also called Glaucous Rose, Redleaf Rose
Rosa glauca is a deciduous shrub rose from mountainous central and southern Europe, grown for its blue-green to purplish foliage and small clear pink flowers followed by dark red hips. It is an easy, hardy shrub that needs full sun and well-drained soil.
Rosa glauca (syn. Rosa rubrifolia), the red-leaved rose or redleaf rose, is a species of rose native to the mountains of central and southern Europe, from the Spanish Pyrenees east to Bulgaria, and north to Germany and Poland. It is also found as an introduced species as far north as Scandinavia and Finland.
This rose was not widely grown in gardens until the end of the 19th century. The flower petals fall off easily in the spray from watering hoses, as well as from wind and rain. The species is naturalised in northern Europe north of its native range, particularly in Scandinavia.
This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rosa glauca by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
