If ever a rose in a collection was appropriately named it is Maurice Utrillo. Bred in France from Delbard Roses ‘Painters Collection’. Red flowers streaked with yellow, pink and splashed with white all over a voluptuous double flower.
Maurice Utrillo was a French Impressionist painter and the multi coloured petals do have a visual impact not found in many other roses.
This is a Hybrid Tea rose created in 2003, the flowers are large to 10cm (4 inches) across in a nicely cupped form.
The flowers are large with a light fragrance and appear in small clusters on each stem. Foliage is a good deep green and this is another disease resistant variety.
This is a repeat flowering rose (remontant) and with deadheading will flower for nearly 6 months, from spring right through to late summer or until the first frosts, depending on climate maybe a little longer.
Fragrance is light and the plant itself is remarkably disease resistant as well as being fast growing
Landscaping Uses
Maurice Utrillo is a reasonably compact grower, reaching around 1 metre in height. Grow it in the garden border, or try it in a container on a patio.
Plant at around 60 cm to 80cm apart for a good effect.
Care and Planting your Maurice Utrillo 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 your Maurice Utrillo Rose Bush flowering freely.
Where To Buy
Bare rooted and potted. Old World, David Austin, Bush & Standard Roses. Over 400 varieties available by Mail Order.
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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.
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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.
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