Asja™ – orange-red hybrid tea rose – pharmaROSA® NEONATAL rooted cutting
Exclusive own-root Asja™ offers a premium hybrid-tea cut-flower profile with pronounced high-centred blooms and a remontant flowering habit, well suited to UK nursery systems serving projects where robust winter tolerance to Scottish and northern conditions is required. Its upright, moderately dense bush form supports efficient container production in the 5–7 L premium segment, while own-root longevity and regeneration give a stable, low-replacement base for collection and show-garden ranges. Flower quality sits at the core: large, cupped, double orange-red blooms with good colour retention and discreet, delicately spicy fragrance, ideal for cut stems and exhibition-type retail formats. With predictable medium maintenance and moderate disease resistance, Asja™ can be integrated into professional propagation beds and nursery networks as a reliable, renewable stock plant, moving from root establishment in year one to strong framework shoots in year two and full ornamental value from year three. This supports wholesale partners building exclusive, flower-led ranges and reseller assortments based on verifiable cultivar identity.
Usage options
Finished-product ideas
- Premium 5–7 L cut-rose bush – Bush-trained own-root Asja™ finished in 5–7 L premium containers, optimised for cut-flower harvest and retail presentation from upright, structured plants – retail / reseller benches.
- Exhibition hybrid tea feature line – Uniform, high-centred, solitary blooms selected from NEONATAL stock for exhibition-focused POS in premium pots, emphasising flower form and colour stability – specialist rose retailers.
- Show-garden collection series – Asja™ integrated into curated hybrid-tea collections, using own-root longevity and verifiable identity to support long-term thematic or municipal show gardens – public-realm and project suppliers.
- Cold-hardy exclusive accent containers – Upright plants in 7–15 L or 40–50 L containers for exposed or northern sites, using H7 hardiness and own-root regeneration to secure multi-season displays – garden centres serving cooler regions.
- Mother-plant and propagation block – Dedicated own-root beds of Asja™ supplying cuttings for ongoing premium-container and cut-flower production, leveraging moderate disease resistance and predictable structure – nursery and integrator propagation hubs.
Technical cultivar profile
| Name and registration |
Asja™ is a hybrid tea rose marketed as an orange-red cut and exhibition type; American Rose Society exhibition name Asja, with previous and registered names not provided. |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred by Samuel Darragh McGredy IV of McGredy Roses International in New Zealand, with unknown parentage; introduced and registered in 1998 by the same breeding house for global hybrid-tea use. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Upright bush form reaching about 95–125 cm high and 60–85 cm spread, with moderately dense, slightly glossy medium-green foliage and moderate prickliness; self-cleaning behaviour is not provided in current data. |
| Flower morphology |
Large, double, solitary hybrid-tea blooms with 26–39 petals, cupped form and a pronounced high centre; repeat-flowering (remontant) with an abundant second flush, suited to cut and exhibition production. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Vivid orange-red base tone with subtle red tint; deep dark buds open bright orange-red with silky sheen, then lighten slightly at petal edges and finally soften to a muted red-orange, showing good colour retention under normal conditions. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Fragrance is very weak, with a discreet, delicately spicy character; primarily valued for visual and structural flower qualities rather than scent-driven applications or fragrance-focused consumer products. |
| Hip characteristics |
Hip set is generally poor due to double flowers; where present, hips are small, ellipsoidal, around 10–14 mm in diameter, with an orange-red colour, offering limited value for fruit or wildlife-focused plantings. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Hardy to approximately -21 to -18 °C, classed as RHS H7, Swedish zone 3 and USDA zone 6b; disease resistance is moderate overall, with good black spot resistance and moderate tolerance to powdery mildew and rust. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Primarily recommended as a cut-flower hybrid tea; supplied bush-trained with 3–5 framework canes for premium-container production, aiming at 5–7 L pots, with medium maintenance and occasional plant protection as part of standard programmes. |
Asja™ offers exclusive, colour-stable hybrid-tea blooms on hardy, upright own-root plants that support long-lived, predictable stands for premium container and cut-flower production; please contact us to align on propagation capacity and scheduling.
