Knockout Rose

The Knockout rose is probably the most popular, and widely planted landscape rose today. Quickly repeating clusters of flowers, blanket the plant all summer.

When planted in groups, the Knockout bush rose, is simply stunning in the garden!

If you want a rose bush that rewards you with a constant display of roses, give these a try. They seem to flourish, even if you neglect them.

They are especially good for planting in massing in large beds. Even without trimming Knockout roses,they will grow into a rounded bush at least 3-4 feet tall, by 3-4 feet wide, or bigger depending on your climate.

It makes a wonderful rounded bush, that grows about 3-4' tall and wide, depending on your planting zone.

The warmer your climate, the bigger these roses can get!

Type Shrub Rose

Hybridizer Radler 1999

Blooms Flowers are lighter pink in the center, with deeper cherry red at the edges.Single flowers are 3" across, with 5-7 petals. Blooms in clusters

Growth Habits 3-4' tall x 3-4' wide. rounded bush

Foliage semi-glossy green, new growth is purple

Fragrance none

Awards AARS 2000, ARS Members Choice Award 2004, Portland Gold medal 2003

Hardy Zone to zone 4

They are VERY hardy and VERY dependable.

These shrub roses, are virtually immune to Black spot.

This is a double Pink Knockout, planted in a small group. The color on this one is a softer, lighter shade of pink. The same flower-power, hardiness, and resistance to disease, applies to all the roses in the series.

Colors for this incredible rose include:

The original Knock out, a deep cherry red, with a lighter pink in the center, deepening to cherry at the outer edges.

Pink Knockout, a lovely pink shade, with even more flower power than the original Knock out

Blushing Knockout, a much lighter shade of pink

Double Pink Knockout, Deep pink, producing double flowers

Sunny Knock out, The latest addition to the series, has bright sunny yellow blooms

Rainbow knockout

Coral-pink single blooms, painted with rich yellow at the base. Plants are very floriferous, and bloom from Spring through Fall.

Makes a colorful addition to the rose garden, or use in beds or borders.

Unaffected to blackspot, and resistant to mildew and rust.

Blushing Knockout

The light pink to shell pink single blooms are more gently colored, but just as magnificient! Has all the same attributes as others from the Knockout family. Grows 2-3 ft.

Very Hardy

These disease resistant roses, might be fragrance free, but they make up for the lack of fragrance, in virtual FLOWER POWER!

They should be in every garden.

This knockout rose, was started from a cutting last fall.

My mother has a bush that is over 4 ft. tall (she lives in the south, and trims it constantly to keep it under control).

It blooms constantly for her, so it seems the knock out rose is very dependable from zone 5-zone 9. And the warmer your climate, the bigger they will get.

Click here to learn how to multiply your knockout roses When planted early in the season, your propagated plants will produce some impressive repeat blooms that don't stop until very late in the fall!

Cool weather changes the lovely deep green foliage to burgundy.

Order your Knockout Rose from the same trusted companys where I get mine.

If you want EASY, CAREFREE, DISEASE-RESISTANT, and LOTS of FLOWERS, plant these roses! Mine continue to bloom well into the fall, even though I have stopped cutting them back!
Interesting books- many pictures, very good for reference! The book "Easiest Roses to Grow", is a great reference book. Its not to big (only 96 pages) but it's packed with information, and LOTS of pictures. It suggest Easiest roses for growing lots of situations!

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