Knockout Rose

Knockout Rose - The Knockout rose is a good reason to love roses. With proper selection and placement, there are few other plants that reliably deliver more vibrant color and overall garden satisfaction, than roses. Roses can also be one of lowest maintenance plants in your garden. Our Garden-Worthy™ Knockout roses are carefully selected for their cold hardiness, lower maintenance needs and disease resistance.

In 2005, we added the red Knockout rose and its blushing pink sport* the Blushing Knockout rose to the very exclusive list of Alan’s Picks. This is a result of near universal accolades from our clients applauding the performance of Knockout rose. That is a powerful testimonial given the fact that we’ve sold thousands of Knockout roses for many different situations during the past several years. The Knockout rose is also designated as the 2004 ARS Members’ Choice by the American Rose Society. This is exceptionally noteworthy because that group usually favors the more formal hybrid teas as opposed to shrub roses.

What first caught our attention about Knockout Rose was its outstanding blooming capabilities from a truly low maintenance, blackspot-resistant shrub rose. It never stops performing -- blooming profusely throughout the growing season into late fall. When planted early in the season, new plants produce impressive, repeat blooms the first year. It matures as a well-behaved bush up to 4 ft. x 4 ft. The dark purplish green leaves, as well as the blooms, are so tough they actually resist Japanese beetles. The foliage turns an attractive burgundy in autumn. Orange-red hips last into winter and are attractive to birds.

Knockout Rose - very low maintenance
Knockout rose maintenance is as close as you will get to a “plant it and forget it” -- we promise! It truly is a very resistant to blackspot and other nuisance diseases. Unlike most roses which require at least six hours of sun, both Knockout™ varieties do fine in a location with as little as four hours of sun. A moist, well-drained soil is ideal. Knockout rose thrives in humid climates where most other roses need spray and maintenance and is also very winter-hardy, even in windy areas, in zones 4-10. The petals fall cleanly, never needing dead-heading – that’s right, NO DEADHEADING!
 

Knockout rose is now available in red, pink, blushing pink and double red varieties. A new off spring of the original Red Knockout is now also available - the Home Run Shrub Rose.

Pink Double Knockout

The newest member of the Knockout Family for 2007.  'Pink Double Knockout' is a mutation of (Red) Double Knockout and is the same in all respects, except the flower color is hot bubble gum pink. You get the same combination of double blooms, low maintenance (no spraying, no dead-heading, and no mounding with soil for winter protection) and continuous repeat bloom.

Red Knockout Rose

Finally a tidy, truly blackspot-resistant red shrub rose. Single 3-3 1/2" blooms are fluorescent fire-engine red in cool weather and deep cerise-pink in the heat of the summer. A lighter halo surround the golden stamens. Petals fall cleanly; never needs dead-heading and the blooms keep coming and coming until late fall. Orange-red hips follow the blooms.

Your best choice for a low maintenance red shrub rose. 2004 ARS Members’ Choice (American Rose Society).

Blushing Knockout Rose

The wait is over for a pink version (sport*) of our popular Knockout rose. Just like its parent, this shrub rose never stops performing -- blooming profusely throughout the growing season into late fall. The semi-double 3-3 ½” light blushing pink blooms change nicely into a shell pink, as the bloom ages. It is identical to red Knockout™ in every respect except for color. Every Blushing Knockout™ rose in existence is a descendant of the same branch sport.

*A rose "sport" is a naturally occurring genetic mutation that appears on a branch of a rose bush.

 

Pink Knockout Rose

A new bright pink version of the popular Knockout rose, with all of the characteristics of its parent – abundant blooms, disease resistant and it is easy to grow.

Double Knockout Rose

This next generation of the Knockout Rose family delivers a 1-2 punch with double blooms and all of the phenomenal disease resistance and flower power of the original Knockout series.

Double Knockout presents itself in a more, dense compact (3-4 feet) and upright fashion than Knockout’s 5-6 foot height and broad, spreading form. This sister to the Knockout rose puts a great deal into its value as a landscape rose, from its four season appeal to its natural resistance to black spot, as well as other diseases and insects.

Home Run Shrub Rose

New offspring of our best selling Knockout Rose will be introduced and available for shipping in Spring 2006. Beautiful red single blooms on a well- behaved, rounded shrub, is incredibly disease resistant.