True Bloom® True Love® Floribunda Rose

Crimson flowers packed with 90 or more petals, which is an extraordinary count on a plant that stays at 2 feet. Rosa 'ALTcaptain', sold as True Bloom® True Love®, PP31,575, grows upright in full sun, hardy to Zone 4.

Classed as a miniflora floribunda, it carries dark green glossy foliage that holds up in any climate and blooms straight through the season. It won the A.R.T.S. award in 2022.

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.

Zone 4 hardiness is unusual in a rose this size. It roots easily and performs in difficult conditions, and the two-foot habit makes it a patio pot rose.