Rose 'Blue Moonstone' 蓝月石

🌹Product Details
📛 Name: Rose 'Blue Moonstone' / 蓝月石 / ブルームーンストーン
🇯🇵 Origin: Premium Japanese Selection
🌿 Class: Shrub Rose
🌴 Height: 3.3 – 4 ft / 100 – 120 cm
🌺 Flower Size: 3.1" - 4" / 8 - 10 cm
🎨 Color: Pale lavender-white with striking wavy magenta-pink petal margins
👃 Fragrance: Strong (Intense elegant tea rose blended with citrus and old rose notes)
🌸 Bloom Period: Spring to Fall (Continuous Flushes)
🌤️ Best Feature: Strong Fragrance
☃️ Hardiness Zones: 5 – 9 (Down to -29°C / -20°F)
☀️ Sunlight: Full sun to Partial shade (☀️/🌤️)
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✨ Key Highlights
🩵 Flower Beauty
Rose 'Blue Moonstone' captures the delicate, glowing quality of fine porcelain and precious gems. Measuring 3.1 to 4 inches across, each bloom features a deeply petaled, cup-shaped rosette filled with intricate wavy sepals. The petal base displays a translucent pale lavender to soft ivory-white hue, which transitions dramatically into scalloped outer margins tinted in rich magenta-pink and violet. During cooler spring and autumn seasons, this color contrast deepens, creating a multi-layered watercolor visual effect that serves as a stunning centerpiece in any garden setting.
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🌸 Bloom Performance
Engineered for supreme floricultural beauty and generosity, 'Blue Moonstone' is an exceptional repeat-blooming shrub rose. It sets flower buds heavily in multi-petaled clusters along graceful stems from late spring straight through late autumn. The bush maintains a steady rhythm of bloom flushes throughout the growing season, quickly generating new flowering shoots after every prune. Individual blossoms hold their crisp, rounded cup form gracefully on the plant, filling garden beds with continuous sprays of soft purple-pink color.
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🌿 Garden Performance
Forming a refined, semi-upright shrub between 3.3 and 4 feet in height with a 3-foot spread, 'Blue Moonstone' provides high landscape versatility. Its manageable compact footprint makes it a standout choice for planting in large patio containers, urban balconies, or sunny deck spaces. In garden beds, it functions beautifully as a mid-border accent shrub or a romantic focal point in mixed perennial borders. Its straight, flexible flowering stems also make it an ideal option for cut-flower gardens and fresh indoor bouquets.
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☀️ Plant Strengths
Demonstrating robust Japanese breeding health, 'Blue Moonstone' exhibits high natural resistance to black spot, powdery mildew, and common rose diseases. It adapts smoothly across USDA Hardiness Zones 5 through 9, enduring winter cold down to -29°C (-20°F) while handling summer weather with proper root shading and regular hydration. Its thick, velvety petal texture holds up well against light rain and ambient summer heat, ensuring reliable bloom performance season after season.
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✨ Why You'll Love It
If you cherish rare, poetic color blends, intense sophisticated fragrances, and elegant compact habits, Rose 'Blue Moonstone' is an indispensable treasure for your collection. Its unique combination of pale lavender-white petals with wavy magenta-pink borders, powerful tea-and-citrus perfume, and exceptional container suitability provides extraordinary visual and sensory value for both passionate rose collectors and everyday home gardeners.
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🌿Growing Note
For optimal growth and bloom density, plant Rose 'Blue Moonstone' in a garden location receiving full sun to partial shade (at least 4–6 hours of direct sunlight daily). Prepare a nutrient-dense planting site with fertile, well-draining soil amended with organic compost. Apply a 2-inch layer of organic mulch around the root base to retain moisture, suppress weeds, and keep roots cool during hot summer months. Water deeply at ground level to keep leaves dry and clean. Feed with a balanced slow-release rose fertilizer in early spring as new growth breaks, followed by high-potassium liquid feeds after each flowering wave to fuel continuous bud production. Perform routine maintenance pruning in late winter by removing weak canes and cutting healthy stems back by one-third to maintain a full, well-shaped canopy.
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📦 Live Plant Notice
This product is shipped as a high-quality live plant. Please note that plant height, leaf density, and current blooming stage will naturally vary depending on the season, shipping transit, and current nursery pruning cycles.

Bloom size, color, and flowering performance vary with plant maturity, temperature, light, and growing conditions.