'Tsaritsa Severa' Rose

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'Tsaritsa Severa' rose Description

My HMF:

Photo courtesy of Helena Verghese Borg

Availability:

Commercially available

Synonyms:

• Empress of the North
• Kaiserin des Nordens
• Pohjolan Kuningatar
• Regeliana Flore Plena
• Rosa rugosa Rubra Plena
• Zariza Sewera

ARS:

Deep pink Hybrid Rugosa.

Origin:

Bred by Eduard August Von Regel (Russia, 1879).

Class:

Hybrid Rugosa.

Bloom:

Deep pink. Double (17-25 petals) bloom form. Spring or summer flush with scattered later bloom.

Habit:

Armed with thorns, suckers on its own roots.
Height of up to 4' (up to 120 cm).

Growing:

USDA zone 2b through 8b. Used for hedge. Very hardy. very vigorous.

Parentage:

Rosa rugosa Thunb. × Rosa davurica Pall.

Notes:

Grown from a batch of rugosa seed sent to St. Petersburg by K. J. Maximowicz and thought to be a spontaneous cross of Rosa rugosa and Rosa davurica. Pohjolan Kunigatar is quite common in Finland and Norway. Flowers are smaller and darker darker than those of Hansa, doesn't rebloom as well as Hansa, according to Peter Joy, Finnish Rose Society.