Rose 'Kagerou' 蜉蝣 - New varieties 2020

🌹Product Details
📛 Name: Kagerou /  カゲロウ /  蜉蝣  / Mayfly / 阳炎
🇳🇱 Origin: Premium Japanese Selection
🌿 Class: Modern Cut Rose / Shrub Rose
🌴 Height: 3 – 4 ft / 90 – 120 cm
🌺 Flower Size: 2.5" - 3.2" / 6 - 8 cm
🎨 Color: Soft dusty pink blended with pale champagne and creamy tea tones
👃 Fragrance: Medium to Strong, sweet classical tea fragrance with gentle fruity notes
🌸 Bloom Period: Spring to Autumn, Repeat Bloomer (Main flush in Spring, continuous flushes through Fall)
🌤️ Best Feature: Excellent Cut Flower
☃️ Hardiness Zones: 6 - 9 (Down to -20°C / -4°F)
☀️ Sunlight: Full sun to Partial shade (☀️/🌤️)
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✨ Key Highlights
🩵 Flower Beauty
Kagerou captivates plant lovers with its artistic, nuanced color profile. Featuring an intricate blend of dusty muted pink, warm champagne, and delicate tea undertones, the petals exhibit a silky matte texture that catches the light in breathtaking ways. As temperatures drop during autumn, the bloom depth intensifies, showcasing an exquisite cupped form with overlapping, paper-thin petals. This subtle Morandi-style aesthetic brings a modern, painterly charm to traditional garden settings and floral arrangements alike.
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🌸 Bloom Performance
Engineered for exceptional productivity, Kagerou is a continuous repeat bloomer that flowers generously from late spring through the first freeze of autumn. Its strong, upward-growing stems produce multiple flower buds per branch, ensuring a heavy initial flush followed by swift, reliable reblooming cycles throughout the growing season. Whether cultivated in garden beds or kept in patio containers, this variety remains remarkably consistent in blooming output and flower formation.
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🌿 Garden Performance
With its neatly structured, upright growth habit, Kagerou excels in versatile landscape applications. Reaching an easily managed height of 3 to 4 feet, it fits seamlessly into cottage gardens, decorative border plantings, and luxury terrace container displays. Because its stems are virtually smooth and nearly thornless, it is exceptionally easy to handle, prune, and harvest for indoor vase setups where its blooms maintain freshness and beauty for days.
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☀️ Plant  Strengths
Kagerou combines poetic visual delicacy with robust nursery vigor. It displays solid adaptability across USDA Zones 6 through 9, demonstrating dependable performance during hot summer stretches when properly hydrated. Its upright architecture promotes excellent air circulation, helping maintain healthy foliage with standard preventative maintenance. Furthermore, its smooth stems reduce physical wear during handling, making it an approachable choice for both beginner gardeners and seasoned plant collectors.
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✨ Why You'll Love It
For collectors of rare Japanese cut roses and connoisseurs of soft, nostalgic flower palettes, Kagerou is a true must-have. It delivers a complete sensory experience, combining delicate visual artwork, smooth handling, and a rich, uplifting tea perfume. By bringing this exceptional variety into your collection, you gain not only an outstanding garden performer but also a renewable source of luxury boutique cut flowers right from your own backyard.
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🌿 Growing Note
To keep your Kagerou rose thriving and producing bountiful blooms season after season, follow these essential care guidelines:
• Light Requirement: Choose a full sun position receiving 6 or more hours of direct light daily. Good sunlight ensures crisp color depth and sturdy stem formation.
• Soil Preparation: Use a light, fertile, highly permeable potting mixture or garden soil rich in organic material with a neutral to slightly acidic pH (6.0–6.8).
• Moisture Management: Water thoroughly when the surface soil dries out. Water at the base of the plant to keep leaves dry and discourage fungal development.
• Feeding Schedule: Supply a slow-release rose fertilizer in early spring, supplemented with liquid blossom-booster fertilizer every two weeks during active bloom cycles.
• Pruning & Deadheading: Deadhead spent flowers down to a strong five-leaflet leaf set to spur rapid secondary bud development. Conduct structural pruning in late winter to reshape the shrub.
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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.