Rose 'Adorable'

An award winning rose with an enchanting fragrance. 80 x 50cm. Full sun to light shade. Flowers Spr to Aut. A beautiful Rose with an enchanting fragrance. The fully double, mauve pink flowers bloom abundantly on the compact, dark green foliage. Growing 80cm x 50cm it can fit almost anywhere and has a nice, upright habit.

It took out the Silver Medal for Most Fragrant as well as People’s Choice at Australia’s National Rose Trials in 2019.

This Floribunda Rose is from the Kordes Parfuma collection and rates 5/5 on our perfume scale. It has strong floral notes as well as tones of apple, lychee, citrus, geranium and spice. The perfume is most intense from afternoon to evening. *** But don’t take our word for it, you can see below for the professional Perfumer notes.

Would any other Rose smell as sweet? Tesselaar has selected this Rose variety especially for its fragrance, you can rest assured it is also vigorous, hardy and disease resistant.

Rose bushes are upright, elegant shrubs that are adorned twice a year with spectacular, showy blooms.

The basics of rose care are simply ...

1. Keep the plants moist at all times, but never allow the roots to sit in water.

2. Feed generously, and frequently, two or three times over the flowering season.

3. Keep pests to a minimum (this is usually not a problem if you start with a strong variety, and keep it well watered and well fed).

4. Prune back once a year in winter.

5. Keep the area around the roots weed free, and ensure 4-6 hours of sun per day. Loamy soils are ideal, though Roses will grow in heavy top soils (if well drained) and sandy soils (if kept watered and fed more frequently). For Roses to thrive, good drainage is critical.

When providing your roses with a supporting show and companion planting try and leave a bit of space around their root zone clear.

*** The Kordes Perfumer description –

This rich and complex fragrance will welcome you with citric-fruity chords of litchi and apple in the head note. The heart note is mild and round. It will change into a creamy-soapy chord of geranium and fill the nose with a soft rose scent. The base surprises with a slightly savoury flavour. The mixture of tingling, slightly sharp flavour reminds of earthy notes and patchouli. This very interesting aspects will give the certain specialness to the constant floral character of this fragrance.