🌹Product Details
📛 Name: Rose 'Olduvai' / 奥杜威 / オルドゥヴァイ
🇳🇱 Origin: Premium Dutch Selection
🌿 Class: Shrub Rose
🌴 Height: 3 – 3.6 ft / 90 – 110 cm
🌺 Flower Size: 3.5" - 4.7" / 9 - 12 cm
🎨 Color: Unique yellow-green gradient fading to soft apricot-pink with green-tinged outer petals
👃 Fragrance: None (Odorless)
🌸 Bloom Period: Late Spring to Fall (Continuous Repeat Flushes)
🌤️ Best Feature: Long Bloom Season
☃️ 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 'Olduvai' showcases one of the most intriguing color palettes in modern floriculture. Measuring 3.5 to 4.7 inches across, each bloom features a rich, high-centered structure packed with dense, velvety petals. The center of the flower glows in a warm, romantic apricot-yellow tone, which seamlessly transitions outward into a soft pale yellow, culminating in crisp, refreshing apple-green outer petals. As the flower fully expands, the outer petal mrgins gently reflex outward, creating a sculptural, multi-layered rosette with breathtaking visual depth.
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🌸 Bloom Performance
Engineered for supreme floricultural productivity, 'Olduvai' is an outstanding repeat bloomer that flowers continuously from late spring to late autumn. It sets buds profusely on strong, straight stems in both single-stem and multi-bud clusters. The petal substance is extraordinarily thick and firm, allowing individual flowers to hold their pristine form on the plant for weeks without drooping or fading. This structural integrity translates into exceptional cut-flower longevity, lasting over 10 to 14 days in indoor water vases.
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🌿 Garden Performance
Forming a compact, neatly structured shrub between 3 and 3.6 feet in height with a 2.5-foot spread, 'Olduvai' provides high versatility in garden design. Its upright, self-supporting canes ensure that heavy blooms stand tall without nodding or bending. It serves as an impressive architectural centerpiece in mixed perennial borders, formal rose beds, or cutting gardens. Its manageable size also makes it an ideal candidate for large patio pots, bringing sophisticated color contrast to outdoor entertaining areas.
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☀️ Plant Strengths
Distinguished by its robust Dutch breeding heritage, 'Olduvai' boasts exceptional environmental resilience. It exhibits high natural resistance against black spot, powdery mildew, and common foliage diseases. The thick, waxy petal texture provides superior rain resistance, preventing petal rot and balling during rainy spring weather. Thriving across USDA Hardiness Zones 5 through 9, it handles summer heatwaves with ease while enduring winter cold down to -29°C (-20°F).
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✨ Why You'll Love It
If you appreciate rare color variations, modern floral design, and low-maintenance garden durability, Rose 'Olduvai' is a must-have addition to your plant collection. Its rare yellow-green to apricot-pink color spectrum offers a fresh, contemporary alternative to conventional rose colors, while its incredible vase life allows you to bring garden luxury indoors. It is an extraordinary performer for dedicated rose collectors, floral arrangers, and home gardeners alike.
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🌿Growing Note
For optimal health and flower production, plant Rose 'Olduvai' in a sunny location receiving at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily. Prepare a fertile planting hole with well-draining soil enriched with composted organic matter. Apply a 2-inch layer of organic mulch around the root zone to retain soil moisture 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 shoots emerge, and apply a liquid potassium feed after each bloom wave to fuel continuous bud formation. Perform annual maintenance pruning in late winter by removing dead or thin canes and shortening healthy stems by one-third to encourage vigorous new flowering wood.
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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.
