Brighten up your garden with cluster-flowered roses
If you want lots of colour and endless blooms in your garden, choose cluster-flowered roses. These shrubs are brimming with flowers. With their non-stop flowering, they will provide a cheerful sight well into autumn. What’s more, they also spread a delightful fragrance.
Lots of variety
Cluster-flowered roses grow several flowers on every stem that – as the name suggests – are grouped together in a cluster. You will enjoy their exuberant and prolonged flowering all summer long. These flowers are available in every colour of the rainbow. There is also lots of variety in shape. Floribundas have large flowers in clusters, while Polyanthas have small ones. Lower-growing miniature roses and patio roses are also suitable for use in pots.
Explosions of fragrance and colour
The buds in a cluster won’t all flower at the same time. Since the buds on most roses show a different colour to the flowers, you will get a beautiful effect of tonal shades in one cluster. The height of the shrubs ranges from 30 cm to over 1.5 metres. Cluster-flowered roses are perfect for combining with perennials or other shrubs. For an even more exuberant and colourful effect, plant several shrubs together. Choose scented cluster-flowered roses, to obtain an explosion of fragrance and colour in your garden as well as stimulation of your senses!
Tips for growing the prettiest cluster-flowered roses
- Plant them in a sunny spot, about 45 cm apart (the larger the bush is expected to grow, the greater the distance should be).
- These roses like space; therefore, choose low-growing and/or airy plants as their neighbours.
- Prune them back annually in March.
- After pruning, mix some organic fertiliser through the top layer of soil around the rose. Fertilise again mid-June and mid-July.
- Deadhead wilted flowers from the clusters, so the energy goes to new buds and your cluster-flowered rose will bloom even more profusely.
