‘Crimson Knight’ Brindabella Rose

Rosa hybrid ‘Crimson Knight’

Plant Details

USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Modern Shrub Rose

Height at Maturity: 3-4′

Width at Maturity: 3-4′
Spacing: 3-3.5′ apart for solid hedges; 7’+ apart for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Rounded Bush

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: Deep Crimson and Red to Burgundy and Maroon Shades

Flower Size: 3-4″

Flowering Period: Spring to Frost!

Flower Type: Double

Fragrant Flowers: Yes, super fragrant!

Foliage Color: Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay soils to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sand (amend quick draining soils for moisture retention), Silt

Soil Drainage: Moist But Well Drained; does not like constantly wet soil

Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.0

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Disease, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity

Description

Brindabella Roses are a collection of tough but beautiful and low-maintenance shrub roses featuring season-long blooms with fragrant, doubled flowers similar to classic tea roses. The flowers of ‘Crimson Knight’ Brindabella Rose start out as deep near black buds gradually transitioning to deep crimson, maroon to burgundy shades with red highlights as they open to full double fragrant flowers. An easy to grow selection that delivers abundant blooms in a wonderful color all its own. Excellent for cutting!

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 3 to 4 feet tall and wide, the Crimson Knight Brindabella Rose is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings or as a colorful hedge in landscape and flowering shrub borders and home foundation plantings. A fine addition to rose gardens and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 3 feet apart for hedges; 7 feet apart for space between plants

Growing Preferences

The Crimson Knight Brindabella Rose is easy to grow in average, moist but well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. As with all other roses, to avoid powdery mildew, morning sun is a must to dry dew from the leaves. Afternoon shade or filtered sun is fine. We suggest 6 hours of direct sun light for best flowering.

Maintenance is minimal requiring no pruning or deadheading through the growing season, though you can deadhead if you like for shaping purposes and to encourage quicker rebloom. To keep your rose full and bushy from year to year, in late winter or very early spring the plant can be pruned back to about 18 inches above the ground. After this hard pruning, your rose will quickly flush out and start blooming with the arrival of warmer spring temperatures.

Helpful Articles

Plant and care for the Brindabella Red Empress Rose as you would Knock Out Roses. Click on the link below to find helpful advice from our experts.

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Roses arrived as indicated in very strong cardboard box. Each plant was covered in paper at the soil line to keep soil in place. Soil was still somewhat moist and plants were top shape on the stems and leaves. I am in zone 9/10 and just put them in the ground in full sun for spring here.———————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

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This rose is beautiful. I turn to Wilson’s when ordering plants.—————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG