Rose 'Für Elise'

Australian Rose of the Year 2023. Deeply coloured magenta purple flowers with a strong fragrance and excellent vigour. The blooms are around 7cm across with up to 40 petals on each and they repeat throughout the season. It is incredibly strong growing with excellent heath.

Rose ‘Für Elise’ is wonderfully upright Bush Rose with semi glossy mid green leaves. Part of the Kordes Fantasia Collection and named for Beethoven’s 250th Anniversary in 2020.

The sweet fragrance registers 4/5 on our Rose fragrance scale.

Would any other Rose smell as sweet? We have carefully selected this Rose variety especially for its fragrance but we make sure 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.