Four-inch flowers blending pink, orange, and yellow in the same bloom, 30 or more petals each, carried in generous clusters with a mild pleasant fragrance. Rosa True Bloom® True Sincerity grows 3 feet tall and wide in full sun, hardy to 10 below zero.
The color mix varies flower to flower, so no two blooms on the plant match exactly.
True Bloom roses come from Ping Lim, the breeder behind the Easy Elegance line, who set out to cross hybrid tea roses with disease-resistant shrubs and get hybrid tea flowers on a plant that survives without a spray program. Two of them, True Passion and True Inspiration, were distinct enough that the program created a class for them: Hybrid Tea Shrub. They are grown on their own roots rather than grafted, so a plant killed back in a hard winter regrows as itself rather than reverting to rootstock, and there are no suckers from below a graft union. Most are hardy to 10 below zero, and high petal counts are the signature of the line.
The compact tidy habit makes it usable in a container, a low hedge, or the front of a border.