Shrub Rose 'Limoncello'

This is the best yellow garden rose I know.

3" single flowers in large clusters. Flowers open lemon yellow and age to cre...Read Moream---the combination is very pleasing. Flowers are self-cleaning. No fragrance.

Plants bloom prolifically and continuously.

Habit is low and evenly mounded, to 3-4' high and wide.

Very healthy and vigorous, highly resistant to black spot and powdery mildew.

There are two different single yellow shrub roses sold as "Limoncello". A self-sown seedling was found at Chamblee's nursery and introduc...Read Moreed in 2009, which appears to be no longer in commerce. Another rose was bred and introduced by Meilland in 2008, whose cultivar name is 'MEIjecycka'.

This demonstrates the confusion that results from using trade names instead of cultivar names.

I planted a nicely caned bareroot "Limoncello" ( from big box store in a midseason sale). I bought it because it was yellow, a floribund...Read Morea, has only seven petals, and I make Lemoncello liquer at home. Of course I googled it, and was thrilled that it was a new Meidiland cultivar that is said to be a very profuse bloomer.

It bloomed, a lot, late last summer! It also has beautiful dark green foliage that seems very resistant to the usual rose troubles. This year it about 2x2 and is almost stupidly full of blooms. They start off a daffodil yellow and mature to a buttery cream. At any moment there are several yummy shades of yellow covering almost the entire plant. ...and this is only the second season!

I do have it in my best sunny bed, but I have other roses in the same locale and none can compare with the bloomiferous Limoncello. She is even
sweetly fragant, and I can smell her without stooping to sniff. If you are looking for garden sunshine in an easy care rose, give Limoncello a try!
Meidiland roses have never disappointed me. I have grown several. This is my hands down favorite.