Floribunda Rose 'Cinco de Mayo'

The color is hard to capture in a photo, a rusty red-orange variably overlaid with a subtle smoky lavender. 3.5" flowers with 20-25 petal...Read Mores bloom in small clusters, in flushes throughout the season.

Gets a little black spot here when grown no-spray, but it performs well despite the fact. The foliage generally looks good.

This is reliably cane hardy in Z5, and some report it wintering over in Z4.

Won an All American Rose Selection in 2009.

Parentage: Topsy Turvy x Julia Child

US PP # 21,709.

It has a lovely dusky colour, grows very well in Z 10b and has a heavenly scent. I was given one as a gift and a year later bought anothe...Read Morer because it is so lovely. I am mystified that it's said to have no fragrance . I have just pruned mine back , they grow rather leggy , one is in the ground in half sun the other in a large pot in full sun.

I live about a mile from the coast where it is often overcast. I bought my rose three years ago and it's been amazing. It blooms prolific...Read Moreally year-round. No diseases. No mildew. No rust. No pests. I never get tired of it.

I just purchased this variety at a garden center on Kauai. I had never seen this variety before but the color and the softness of the pe...Read Moretals drew me in. I am a relatively novice rose grower, having never grown roses in Hawaii. I hope this bush will thrive well here, as I live on the sunny dry side of the island. I will post as to my progress on this journey. Aloha :)

I have not grown this rose but observed it very carefully all throughout spring in the nursery where I work. The flowers, form, and fol...Read Moreiage are magnificent and so is the fragrance. While other roses seemed to struggle to recuperate from a hail storm, bouts of black spot, etc., this beauty took the same challenges in stride and never skipped a beat. I hate that I didn't buy one for myself and will definitely be poised to snag one next year.
I agree that, although it isn't noted in the official descriptions, this rose has a really lovely scent.

I have three growing through a Shiny Xylosma hedge and it's beautiful when the various shades of color are poking through the hedge. It ...Read Morealso smells very nice. The range of colors are lovely. I'm actually going to put one more to replace a lavender that croaked.

Most people say that this particular rose doesn't have any fragrance but the one outside my front door does. It smells heavenly with that...Read More classic "rose" scent.