Marie Daly

1999, Polyantha, Earthkind

`Marie Daly’ is the perfect rose for the shrinking landscape. You get big rose performance on a small plant that won’t fill or overwhelm small spaces. Rosa x polyantha ‘Marie Daly’ (Marie Daly Rose) is a fragrant, pink flowered sport of the popular polyantha, ‘Marie Pavie’.

Marie Daly’ is a fragrant, free flowering, pink polyantha. The pink color is deeper in cooler weather and on newly opened flowers. Flowers have a 17-25 petal count, buds are long and gracefully pointed and flowers emit a sweet musk fragrance. Foliage is a small-medium size, abundant and dark green. Plants get about 3 to 4 feet tall and wide. Plants have a rounded, uniform shape and the stems are mostly thornless. Plants can be propagated by selecting thornless shoots to root and grow “own roots” plants.

Characteristics:

Blooming Period: May – First Frost
Mature Height: 3 - 4 feet
Mature Width: 2 - 4 feet
Growth Habit: Dwarf Shrub

Zones 5-9

Fragrant