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Rosa Oso Easy® Italian Ice®

Rosa hybrid 'Chewnicebell' PP#26,532

Extremely hardy and disease resistant!

Genus: Rosa
Species: hybrid
Variety: 'Chewnicebell'
ppaf: PP#26,532
Item Form: 1-Quart
Zone: 4 - 9
Bloom Start To End: Early Summer - Late Summer
Habit: Compact
Plant Height: 18 in - 2 ft 6 in
Plant Width: 18 in - 2 ft 6 in
Bloom Size: 2 in
Restrictions:
*Due to state restrictions we cannot ship to the following:
Canada, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
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Genus: Rosa
Species: hybrid
Variety: 'Chewnicebell'
ppaf: PP#26,532
Item Form: 1-Quart
Zone: 4 - 9
Bloom Start To End: Early Summer - Late Summer
Habit: Compact
Plant Height: 18 in - 2 ft 6 in
Plant Width: 18 in - 2 ft 6 in
Bloom Size: 2 in
Restrictions:
*Due to state restrictions we cannot ship to the following:
Canada, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
show more

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One of the easiest roses to grow successfully, Oso Easy® offers a compact size, soft pastel-toned blooms that repeat all summer, and healthy disease-free foliage. Find a place for this unusual and very lovely rose!

Just 18 to 30 inches high and wide, Italian Ice® regales you with semi-double (24 to 30 petals on average) blooms that open duckling yellow, then acquire pink edges and often shades of white and palest orange as they mature. The first blooms arise in early summer, and then the shrub repeats until fall. Magnificent!

Use Italian Ice® to edge pathways, dot the sunny border, and grace beautiful containers. Butterflies flock to its blooms, which make nice cuts for informal arrangements.

Hardy through zone 4 in the north, 9 in the south, this shrub rose is long-lived and very vigorous. Consider landscaping with this dynamite shrub rose for years of long-season color! Zones 4-9.

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Overall Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

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An excellent choice for a no-spray, low-growing shrub

Marty Nemko from CA wrote on October 28, 2018:

In California, I get no disease on this rose, and I never spray. A colleague in Texas says that, there, it gets cyclospor under no-spray conditions. Italian Ice produces unique little pinky-yellow roses on a vigorous plant with glossy foliage. The plant, alas, sends out anomolous long shoots, which hurts its otherwise nice rounded habit. That all said, it's a superior rose. Worth a try.

Lovely color and great value

Yonna from OR wrote on August 10, 2018:

This rose is wonderful. Its leaves are a dark green and very shiny. The roses, which are many, are beautiful. Nothing is bothering this rose. I have it growing in a big pot on my deck here on the Oregon Coast. So many compliments on it.

Additional pruning tips for healthy, beautiful, productive roses:

Whether you're deadheading, removing dead wood, or performing an annual pruning, make sure your cuts are no more than ¼ inch (5 mm) above a bud, and slope the cut away from the bud, to prevent water from collecting on it.
Your cuts should always be clean, so keep your pruning shears sharp, and use pruning tools that are appropriately sized to whatever size stems you are cutting.
To encourage an open-centered form, cut to an outward-facing bud. To encourage upright growth on roses with a spreading habit, prune a few of the stems to inward-facing buds.
Prune any dieback to the healthy, white pith.
Remove dead or diseased stems, as well as any that cross or are spindly.
Your goal should be to have well-spaced stems that allow for a free flow of air.
If pruning an established plant, remove any old wood that is flowering poorly, and use a saw to get rid of old stubs that are no longer producing new shoots.
Other than climbing roses, you should prune newly planted roses hard, which encourages vigorous shoot production.
When removing suckers, trace them back to the roots from which they are growing, and simply take them off.

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