Brindabella™ Crimson Knight

Shrub Rose

Brindabella Roses™

A shrub rose of superior garden performance -- with a bushy growth habit, excellent disease resistance, and fragrant, double flowers. Buds are very dark, burgundy-red. Flowers display a range of red shades, including crimson and violet-red.

Rosa x ‘GRAnib’ PP31742

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Disease free beautiful roses

Deep color with a true red bloom

Intoxicating fragrance

Garden splendor

Classic rose looks without fuss!

Dense, healthy shrubs are covered with blooms every 6-8 weeks

Shrub roses with a beautiful fragrant bold bloom

Intoxicating fragrance with traditional rose scent

Dark buds

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Plant Profile

Description

Shrub rose of superior garden performance with a bushy growth habit, excellent disease resistance and fragrant, double flowers

Plant Type

Deciduous

Light

Full Sun to part sun

Average Height

3-4 ft H x W

Average Width

3-4 ft H x W

Average Spacing

4-5'

Hardiness Zones

Zones 5-9

Flower

Double petaled with traditional rose fragrance

Soil Moisture

Medium

Features

Blooms in Autumn, Spring, Summer

Tolerance

Vigorous shrub with excellent disease resistance.

Attributes

A shrub rose of superior garden performance, amazingly fragrant double pink flowers

Uses

These low maintenance roses are very vigorous yet grow to only 4 feet tall and wide in 2 years’ time. Very well suited to home gardens

Features & Uses

Intense color and fragrance
Reblooms
Large, double fragrant flowers
Dense foliage, bushy growth habit
Well suited to home gardens and commercial landscapes
Vigorous yet grow to only 4 feet tall and wide in 2 years’ time
Excellent resistance to black spot and powdery mildew.

Time to smell the roses!

Brindabella Roses were bred by John and Sylvia Gray, who operate Brindabella Country Gardens, a retail rose specialist in Queensland, Australia. “Since our marriage in 1979, Sylvia and I have been avid gardeners,” John says. “We planted our first roses at our first house we bought and have been growing them ever since.” In 1992, they purchased a 5-acre plot of land in Toowoomba with the dream of creating an internationally recognized garden with an English garden theme. Toowoomba is known as the Garden City of Australia and hosts a Carnival of Flowers each year.

Garden City of Australia

Their garden has become the centerpiece of the event, with thousands of visitors flocking to view more than 2,000 roses each year. The Grays soon built a retail nursery, as a plan to transition to retirement. An agronomist by trade, John worked for the state department of agriculture and then crop protection company American Cyanamid in Australia. After a career in plant pathology, John ventured into rose production and then rose breeding with a focus on disease resistance, specifically powdery mildew and black spot.

Climate

One challenge: Toowoomba’s climate is not good for roses. “Every night, a maritime breeze blows in from the coast. It is lifted by the mountain topography and condenses moisture onto everything, so all plant leaves are soaked with moisture every night for about seven hours,” John explains. “Rose black spot is devastating, and defoliation is very severe. With my plant pathology background, I new that if we were to succeed, the answer lay in breeding.”

Rose scent

This meant seeking out and evaluating black spot resistant roses. “By luck, I came across a white rose sent out from the United Kingdom with very strong perfumed double flowers, planted it and watched it thrive and remain completely clean of black spot for four years, whilst other roses in the garden succumbed badly,” John says.

Modern Shrub Roses

“Sylvia and I agreed we would use it as a parent to breed our own black spot-resistant roses that looked like a rose and smelled like a rose should.” This early breeding became the foundation for the Brindabella series – modern shrub roses that offer form, function and fragrance.

Care and Planting

Brindabella Roses™, a collection of tough shrub roses selected for superior garden performance and show-stopping flowers. These roses have a bushy growth habit, excellent disease resistance, and fragrant doubled flowers in an array of traditional and modern colors. These low maintenance roses are very vigorous yet grow to only 4 feet tall and wide in 2 years’ time. Very well suited to home gardens and commercial landscapes alike, the foliage is among the cleanest to be found in any shrub rose and the fragrance will stop any passerby in their tracks.

Seasons: Autumn, Spring, Summer, Winter – Southern Climates

Colors: Purple, Pink and Dark Crimson

Light Levels: Partial-Sun, Sun

Vigor: Vigorous

Earliness: Mid

Habit: Upright

Usage: Container Gardens, Gardens, Landscapes

Care & Planting

Care and Planting

Brindabella Roses™, a collection of tough shrub roses selected for superior garden performance and show-stopping flowers. These roses have a bushy growth habit, excellent disease resistance, and fragrant doubled flowers in an array of traditional and modern colors. These low maintenance roses are very vigorous yet grow to only 4 feet tall and wide in 2 years’ time. Very well suited to home gardens and commercial landscapes alike, the foliage is among the cleanest to be found in any shrub rose and the fragrance will stop any passerby in their tracks.

Seasons: Autumn, Spring, Summer, Winter – Southern Climates

Colors: Purple, Pink and Dark Crimson

Light Levels: Partial-Sun, Sun

Vigor: Vigorous

Earliness: Mid

Habit: Upright

Usage: Container Gardens, Gardens, Landscapes

In the Garden

Introducing Brindabella Roses™, a collection of tough shrub roses selected for superior garden performance and fantastic fragrance!

Show-stopping flowers bloom in traditional and modern colors. The foliage is among the cleanest to be found in any shrub rose and the fragrance will stop you in your tracks!

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