Rose 'Princess Suki' 苏琪公主

🌹Product Details
📛 Name:  Princess Suki / 苏姬公主 / シャンス ポム / 苏琪公主
🇳🇱 Origin: Premium Japanese Selection
🌿 Class: Floribunda / Shrub Rose
🌴 Height: 3 – 4 ft / 90 – 120 cm
🌺 Flower Size: 3" - 3.5" / 7 - 9 cm
🎨 Color: Color-changing soft apricot-pink with warm peach centers and lighter cream-pink margins
👃 Fragrance: Medium — Sweet, refreshing apple-fruity scent with classic rose notes
🌸 Bloom Period: Late Spring to Autumn (Repeats continuously in heavy flushes)
🌤️ Best Feature: Heat Resistant
☃️ Hardiness Zones: 6 - 9 (Down to -15°C / 5°F)
☀️ Sunlight: Full sun to Partial shade (☀️/🌤️)
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✨ Key Highlights
🩵 Flower Beauty
The Princess Suki Rose showcases exquisite bloom architecture highly coveted in modern floral arrangement circles. Each 3 to 3.5-inch flower packs between 45 and 60 densely layered petals into a rounded, apple-like cupped rosette. Opening with a warm apricot-peach core that softly transitions into porcelain cream-pink outer petals, the dynamic color shifts dynamically with daily sunlight and seasonal temperatures to create an ever-evolving visual delight.
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🌸 Bloom Performance
Engineered for nonstop seasonal color, this Japanese floribunda shrub blooms in energetic, repeated flushes from late spring straight through autumn frosts. Its erect, rigid stems support heavy multi-bud clusters effortlessly without bowing or nodding under the weight of full blossoms. The durable petal structure ensures flowers stay pristine on the plant for 7 to 10 days and provides an outstanding vase life for fresh indoor bouquets.
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🌿 Garden Performance
Forming a neat, well-branched upright shrub reaching 3 to 4 feet in height, this cultivar is perfectly scaled for space-conscious urban landscapes. It serves as an elegant centerpiece in sunny garden borders, cottage rose beds, or decorative container pots on patios and decks. The dark-green, leathery foliage provides a clean, healthy backdrop that contrasts beautifully with the soft pastel apricot-pink blooms.
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☀️ Plant Strengths
Selected for its outstanding garden stamina, this variety boasts superior heat resistance, maintaining its globular bloom form and radiant pigmentation during scorching summer spells without fading or crisping prematurely. High natural immunity against black spot and powdery mildew ensures reliable foliage health, while sparse thorn density along upper stems makes harvesting cut flowers and routine plant care effortless.
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✨ Why You'll Love It
Combining color-changing apricot elegance, sweet apple perfume, and professional cut-flower durability, the Princess Suki Rose is a essential treasure for both collectors and novice growers. Whether cultivated as a featured patio pot plant or harvested for luxurious indoor arrangements, its reliable reblooming power and low-maintenance habit guarantee long-lasting satisfaction.
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🌿Growing Note
• Light & Position: Plant in full sun to achieve maximum bloom count and vibrant color contrast. Performs wonderfully in bright patio setups.
• Soil & Drainage: Prefers rich, loamy, well-draining soil. Enrich planting holes with organic compost or well-rotted manure before planting.
• Irrigation Practice: Water thoroughly when the top inch of soil feels dry. Direct water toward the root base to keep leaves dry and healthy.
• Fertilizer Plan: Apply a balanced rose food in early spring as new shoots emerge, reapplying liquid high-potassium fertilizer post-flush.
• Pruning Technique: Perform a medium prune in late winter before bud break. Deadhead spent flowers back to a five-leaflet node to spur rapid reblooming.
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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.