Intrigue Rose
These are pictures of an Intrigue rose bush that is blooming in our yard this week. Intrigue is one of my favorite hybrid tea roses. It has the perfect rose shape as it’s opening. Although, it tends to fade quickly soon after it’s fully opened, and the flowers often get sunburned in hot weather.
I planted this rose bush as a bare root rose about 3 years ago. It grew poorly the first 2 years, probably because it was only getting about 2 hours of direct sunlight a day, and it wasn’t getting watered enough.
Roses are water hungry plants. I now water all of my roses daily with a drip system from April through October. Also, I moved this Intrigue rose bush to a new loaction that gets about 6 hours of direct sun daily. Now, it’s doing great. It’s tripled in size in just the past year.
August 06 2008 10:03 pm | Roses
Barbara on 12 May 2012 at 10:24 am #
I bought my first Intrigue rose last year at Aldi’s…a grocery store. I bought too many flowers/plants last season and somehow wound up not planting the Intrigue. While still in the package, never unwrapped, it produced two or three breath-taking blooms! They were very fragrant. I noticed the blooms faded in a short time, but I thought it might be because I left it in the wrapper. (I kept watering it, thinking I would plant it..if I could find the space! It finally died. I found another of the same rose about an hour ago! This one will definitely be planted, by Monday. I got online to see if I could find information about Intrigue and found your pictures and post. Thanks for the information.
Barbara on 12 May 2012 at 10:26 am #
I’d like to post a couple pics of the one from last year, but, I guess that’s not possible. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a pic of the package, too, to prove it grew so nicely while all wrapped up in that plastic, but, it is true that the blooms were from the plant in the package.