| Rosa 'Schoener's Nutkana' | |
| Genus: | Rosa hybrid |
| Hybrid: | Rosa nutkana × 'Paul Neyron' |
| Cultivar: | 'Schoener's Nutkana' |
| Group: | Hybrid Nutkana |
| Breeder: | Georg Schoener |
| Origin: | US, 1930 |
Rosa 'Schoener's Nutkana' is a deep pink rose variety named after Father Georg Schöner (1864–1941), a priest who became a notable rose breeder, who developed this rose in 1930 as a cross between Rosa nutkana and the hybrid perpetual 'Paul Neyron' (Levet, 1869).[1]
This hybrid nutkana is a shrub rose with large, single flowers, five-petalled but sometimes with another one or two, reaching an average diameter of 8cm (03inches).[2] Their colour is light to carmine-pink with a large circle of yellow stamens. The long-lasting flowers are moderately fragrant, develop from small, pointed buds, and appear in small clusters of two to five on short strong stems in a spring or summer flush with some scattered flowers later on. In autumn, the shrub sports rose hips.
The plant tends to be a tall, sprawling shrub, with very few thorns on its arching shoots and small light to medium grey-green foliage with seven leaflets. 'Schoener's Nutkana' can grow 250cm (100inches) high and 120cmto150cmcm (50inchesto60inchescm) wide. The vigorous shrub tolerates half-shade and poorer soils, is very disease resistant and winter hardy down to −25 °C (USDA zone 5).[3] It is well suited to form hedges.