Why stop enjoying your roses when the petals fall? The Hip-Happy Roses Bundle celebrates the beauty of roses through more than their flowers, pairing generous bloomers with the added seasonal interest of colorful rose hips. This distinctive trio combines a landscape rose known for its abundant flowering and hips, a graceful shrub with large clusters of soft pink blooms followed by orange-pink hips, and a vigorous red-flowered climber that brings vertical interest to the garden.
Color & Bloom Combination: This collection brings together contrasting flower forms and colors, from soft pink and peachy tones to vivid red. Always Hope offers prolific flowering and a generous bounty of rose hips, creating interest beyond the blooming season. Penelope produces massive clusters of pale pink flowers that gradually fade to peach and cream, followed by plump orange-pink hips. Dortmund adds a bolder note with large, single red flowers accented by a contrasting white eye. The result is a garden with a lovely mix of delicate cluster blooms, simple open flowers, and seasonal color that continues after flowering.
How to Use in Your Garden: Use Dortmund as the vertical element in your planting, training it along a sturdy fence, trellis, or other substantial support. Plant Always Hope and Penelope nearby as shrub roses, allowing them enough space to flower generously and develop their hips. Their combination of blooms and fruit makes them particularly appealing in informal landscapes and wildlife-friendly gardens, where seasonal changes are part of the design. If you want to enjoy the rose hips, avoid deadheading every spent flower; leaving some flowers to mature allows hips to develop. Remember that hip production can vary with growing conditions and how frequently the plants are pruned.
Meet Your Roses
- Always Hope — A prolific-flowering landscape rose growing approximately 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide, known for its abundant blooms and generous production of rose hips. Its substantial flowering and seasonal interest make it a lovely choice for mixed borders and informal shrub plantings.
- Penelope — A shrub rose reaching approximately 5–6 feet tall, with massive clusters of pale pink flowers that fade through peach to cream. After flowering, it produces plump orange-pink hips, adding another layer of interest and extending its appeal beyond the main bloom display.
- Dortmund — A vigorous climbing rose reaching approximately 10–12 feet, with large, single red flowers and a contrasting white eye. Its open flower form creates a different look from the fuller blooms of many garden roses, and its climbing habit makes it an excellent choice for a sturdy fence or trellis.
Bundle Details
- Includes three roses: one of each variety listed above
- Combines soft pink, peach, cream, and vivid red flowers
- Features two roses noted for their colorful hips and one vigorous climber
- Offers a mix of shrub and climbing growth habits
- Selected for abundant flowering and additional seasonal interest from rose hips
- Ships together in one box
Hips: Yes
Climate Zones: zone 6, zone 7, zone 8, zone 9, zone 10
We ship our roses from September to May. Other items ship year round.
At checkout, you may choose your desired delivery timeframe. This is a very important step!
We do ask that you make sure the weather in your zone is suitable for receiving and plating your roses.
Antique Rose Emporium is in Texas and the December weather can be anywhere from below freezing to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. But our weather is extremely mild compared to the northern United States.
We want you to have the best success possible with your roses and ask that you let us care for them over the winter and receive them at the time that you plan to plant.
Please ensure that you are not experiencing freezing temperatures and the ground is not frozen when you plan to receive your rose.