Hot Cocoa Rose

Brown Floribunda Roses

Hot Cocoa rose, is a most unique colored rose! You have to "see" the color to describe it for yourself! It is a smokey chocolate/orange with purple tones. If you are looking for something different for the garden, give this one a look.

Easy to grow as Floribunda roses are, it would be a nice addition to your garden. No other rose to date has this coloring.

Type Floribunda

Hybridizer Carruth 2002

Blooms Smiokey chocolate/orange color. Flowers are 3 - 3/1" across, with 25-30 petals. Flowers grow in clusters.

Growth Habits A vigorous grower, the rounded, medium tall bush grows 4-5' tall, by about 4' wide.

Foliage Foliage is dark green, and glossy

Fragrance Moderate, Old rose fragrance (nice)

Awards AARS 2003, ARS Members Choice Award 2007

Hardy Zone 6-9

These interesting Floribunda Roses are considered brown roses, because it is the closest to the color brown you'll see on any rose to date. As you can see by it's awards, it quickly became a popular rose.

An easy rose to grow in the garden, the ruffled blooms with their chocolate/orange color will delight garden visitors. Buds are a deep rust color, adding to the attractiveness of the plant. (Fortunately, the name is easy to remember) They will also be suprised when they sniff the fruity, spicey fragrance.

This is another great rose that would make an excellent shrub rose, as it is covered in clusters of those very unique colored rose blooms.

It is also very disease resistant, making it a no-fuss rose.

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