With its rich, velvety burgundy-red blooms, Burgundy Iceberg offers all the vigour, reliability, and free-flowering nature of the famous white Iceberg rose, but in a deeper, more sumptuous colour. A naturally occurring sport of the original Iceberg, it was discovered in Australia and has become a popular choice for gardeners looking for a rose with outstanding garden performance and dramatic colour.
This floribunda inherits the exceptional qualities that have made the Iceberg family one of the world’s most widely grown roses. It is available as both a bush rose and a standard, making it equally suited to garden beds, borders, feature plantings, and formal rose gardens.
The fragrance is light and pleasant without being overpowering, while the glossy green foliage provides an attractive backdrop to the abundant clusters of flowers. Disease resistance is excellent, and the plant is noted for its hardiness, vigour, and ease of care, making it suitable for both experienced rose growers and beginners alike.
As a bush rose, Burgundy Iceberg will reach around 1.5 metres in height with a spread of approximately 1.2 metres. It flowers repeatedly from spring through to autumn, producing masses of blooms in successive flushes that ensure a colourful display for much of the year. Like other floribundas, it is easy to prune and rewards even minimal attention with prolific flowering.
While Burgundy Iceberg is admired in its own right, it also shares the remarkable heritage of the celebrated Iceberg family. Its parent, Iceberg, has received numerous international awards and remains one of the most influential and widely planted roses ever introduced, with Burgundy Iceberg continuing that tradition through its outstanding garden performance and striking colour.
Landscaping Uses
Use Burgundy Iceberg as a feature plant in the garden, grow it in a container or plant it en masse as a border plant.
Care and Planting your Burgundy Iceberg rose
Best grown in a position in full sun or at least 6 hours of good sun a day and a well drained soil, water your new plant well the day before planting and you are ready to plant.
- Weed the area well and dig the soil over.
- Dig in some well rotted compost and aged cow manure.
- Prepare a planting hole the same depth that the rose was in the container.
- Gently remove the plant from the container.
- Place in the planting hole and backfill.
- Water in well with a liquid seaweed fertiliser.
- Lightly mulch around the plant.
- Water deeply as the soil dries over the first spring and summer.
We suggest using a general purpose rose food such as Sudden Impact for roses with an application every 8 weeks from early spring through summer. Regular seaweed fertiliser application will also help keep you Burgundy Iceberg flowering freely.
Burgundy Iceberg Roses are available for sale online from the following participating nurseries
One of Australia's leading Rose suppliers. Large range of Bare root rose plants available for delivery Australia wide from June to August. For Rose care information and to order online visit our website.
www.treloarroses.com.au
Bare rooted and potted. Old World, David Austin, Bush & Standard Roses. Over 400 varieties available by Mail Order.
www.magicgardenroses.com.au
400 Galston Road, Galston NSW 2159
Huge range of potted roses available all year - weeping, standards, climbing, groundcover, bush, David Austin, Smooth Touch, Old World, New Releases. Rose Garden Design Service.
www.greeneroses.com.au