Rosa rugosa x virginiana Jam-a-licious - Shrub Rose

The Jam-a-licious Rosebush is a highly decorative shrub from spring to autumn, compact and very useful to the small fauna that frequents our gardens. This offspring of the rugosa rosebush and the Virginia rosebush combines the abundant fruiting of the former with the sumptuous autumn colours of the latter. Bushy, not very tall, and with few prickles, it produces many beautiful, nectar-bearing,pink flowers, and then scarlet fruits, which are decorative and edible and sought after by birds. This very hardy rosebush enjoys the sun, in a humus-rich, fertile soil that doesn't dry out too much in summer.

Rosa x rugosa Jam-a-licious was recently selected in the Netherlands. It forms a small, densely branched shrub, with an upright habit, reaching about 1.20 m (4ft) in height and 80 cm (32in) in width. The branches of this rosebush have only a few prickles. The deciduous foliage is abundant and resistant to diseases, composed of leaflets with serrated edges in a vivid green colour. In autumn, it takes on golden, orange, burgundy, and violet tones before falling. Its beautiful single flowers bloom in an intense pink colour, then fade slightly in the sun. At full bloom, they reveal a beautiful yellow stamens that attract pollinators. The abundant flowering takes place in May-June. After pollination, rounded, slightly flattened, fleshy fruits form, turning scarlet red when ripe. Persisting on the shrub for a long time, they enhance its charm at the end of the season. These edible fruits can also be used to make jams or jellies.

Rose Jam-a-licious, very hardy and low maintenance, is essential in a garden that makes room for nature, even when space is limited. Full of charm and resources, it brings life to the garden or patio for a good part of the year. It will find its place in a small hedge or in a shrub bed. To accompany it, consider, for example, groundcover roses such as Bee's Paradise Pink or Rosanatura Rosea. It can also be associated with a dwarf buddleia Nanho Purple, graceful and undemanding, with Euonymus alatus Compactus, magnificent in autumn, or even with Nandina Obsessed Seika.