Clara's Choice Bedding rose Scarman – CLARA pharmaROSA® NEONATAL rooted cutting
With its upright, compact growth and dense, glossy foliage, Clara’s Choice offers a reliable shrub framework for nursery production where repeat-flowering shrubs are expected to perform consistently in borders and containers. Its remontant, double, rosette blooms in soft peach-pink provide colour continuity for standard finished products, while very good colour retention supports display value in retail and reseller channels. The cultivar’s low maintenance requirement and good disease resistance translate into efficient crop management for 2–3 L standard containers and larger 40–50 litre feature specimens, with reduced intervention over the production cycle. Own-root NEONATAL material underpins longevity and predictable stands in propagation beds and wholesale blocks, helping You plan capacity from Year 1 roots through Year 2 structural growth to full ornamental value by Year 3. Winter hardiness to RHS H7 allows reliable scheduling even for northern UK schemes exposed to cold and wind, supporting resilient supply into thematic rose gardens and public collections. The moderately decorative orange-red hips add seasonal interest where autumn structure matters for project specifications, and the medium, bush-enveloping fragrance gives additional sensory value for collection and display plantings.
Usage options
Finished-product ideas
- 2–3 L retail border shrub – Own-root, compact, disease-resistant plants finished in 2–3 L standard containers as a reliable garden-performance line for borders and mixed beds – target audience/channel: independent garden centres and regional retail chains.
- 40–50 L feature container rose – Upshifted NEONATAL plants trained into dense, upright shrubs with strong colour retention and medium fragrance, ideal as ready-to-place focal containers – target audience/channel: landscape contractors and design-led retailers.
- Thematic peach-collection line – Coordinated batches of Clara’s Choice for soft peach-pink themed rose collections, leveraging remontant flowering and uniform own-root growth – target audience/channel: thematic rose gardens, show gardens and private-label series.
- Low-maintenance project specification shrub – Standard container product positioned for public and institutional schemes seeking low-intervention, disease-resistant planting with long-term own-root stability – target audience/channel: public-realm suppliers and framework contractors.
- Collection-bed authenticity stock – Verified, own-root NEONATAL cutting material grown on for cultivar-maintenance beds and reference collections, exploiting stable structure and moderate hip display – target audience/channel: specialist nurseries and botanical institutions.
Technical cultivar profile
| Parameter |
Data |
| Name and registration |
Current trade name Clara's Choice Bedding rose Scarman; shrub / bed rose type; exhibition category shrub rose; product name CLARA; collection Bedding rose; formal registration name not provided. |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred by John Scarman, Rosenschule John Scarman in Germany; breeding year 2009; registration year 2009; introduction year data not available; parentage unknown; NEONATAL line supplied as own-root propagation material. |
| Awards and recognition |
Not provided; no competition, show, or global awards listed; no specific collectors’ recommendations or horticultural ratings beyond internal premium bronze cultivar quality assessment data. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Upright, compact shrub with 100–140 cm height and 85–115 cm spread; dense, glossy dark green foliage; moderately thorny shoots; self-cleaning strength data not available; suited to bush-trained, compact finished forms. |
| Flower morphology |
Large, double rosette blooms with 26–39 petals, typically borne in clusters of 3–5 flowers per stem; remontant flowering with abundant second flush supports extended ornamental performance and production value. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Soft peach-pink blend with cream-coloured edging; buds cream-pink with peach apex; flowers open peach-orange, then fade to mid soft peach-pink and finally a pale pink veil; very good colour retention under garden conditions. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Medium-strength, softly bush-enveloping scent; detailed fragrance character not provided; considered mainly ornamental but with a noticeable ambient fragrance contributing to user experience in borders and containers. |
| Hip characteristics |
Produces moderate quantities of small, spherical orange-red hips, around 6–10 mm in diameter; hips can offer decorative autumn interest in borders, project plantings and collection beds where seasonal structure is valued. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Rated resistant to powdery mildew, black spot and rust; winter hardy to about −26 to −23 °C, RHS H7, Swedish zone 4, USDA zone 5b; heat and drought tolerance data not available from current trials. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Primary uses border, specimen, cut flower and container; low maintenance requirement with generally little intervention; recommended as bush-trained compact plants in standard containers, 2–3 L target pot, rooted cutting form. |
Clara's Choice Bedding rose Scarman combines compact, remontant, disease-resistant performance with colour-stable, fragrant blooms on long-lived own-root plants, giving predictable shrub stands for which we would be pleased to discuss capacity and scheduling.
