Silas Marner Rose is a compact deciduous shrub with a mounded habit and glossy dark green foliage that emerges with a burgundy red tint. The fragrant, lighlty ruffled soft pink double flowers with lighter edges bloom in flushes from spring until frost.  Best grown with full sun in rich and moist well-drained, lightly acidic soils.  Silas Marner is highly disease resistant, and has a complex old rose fragrance with notes of lemon, green banana, and apricot.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:  Medium Maintenance. Roses are susceptible to powdery mildew, black spot, rust, and rose rosette and require regular fungicide in humid areas that experience a lot of rainfall.  Pest issues include aphids, borers, scale, mites thrips, midges, and leafhoppers.
LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Naturalized Areas, Wildlife Garden, Foundation Plantings, Trellises, Walls, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS:  Yarrow, Lavender, Coneflower

IMAGES: Prides Corner, Rosa Silas Marner® ('Ausraveloe')

* As plants have ranges in app earance they may not appear as the images shown.