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 color,with purplish cinnamon tones at the edges, and rusty orange underneath. If you are looking for something different for the garden, give this one a look.
Easy to grow as Floribunda roses are, the Hot Cocoa rose 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
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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.
It grows upright, 4-5' tall, and has dark, glossy green foliage.
This is another great rose that would make an excellent shrub rose, as it is covered in clusters of those very unique colored "hot cocoa" rose blooms.
This rose is also very disease resistant, making it a no-fuss garden rose.
It is heat tolerent as well, not minding hot climates.
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