GARTENFREUND® – pink landscape shrub rose – Kordes (KORhopiko)
Uniformity in GARTENFREUND® underpins predictable project-scale production: a compact, dense floribunda shrub delivering fast, bed-filling coverage from own-root pharmaROSA® NEONATAL material in 1.5–2 L lines, ideal for mass-planting and container routes. Its ADR-certified resistance and H7-rated winter hardiness support low-input nursery and public-realm cycles where maintenance capacity is tight yet quality expectations remain high. The vibrant deep pink colouration holds well in sun, helping You maintain consistent visual standards across beds, while naturally self-cleaning clusters reduce grooming time during peak dispatch. Semi-double, openly structured flowers with visible stamens ensure moderate pollinator value, aligning with biodiversity specifications in contemporary landscape briefs, and dark green, glossy foliage strengthens the finished-product impression for thematic and collection plantings in UK schemes that must also cope with exposed, winter- and wind-influenced sites.
Usage options
Finished-product ideas
- Project bed 2 L landscape line – Uniform, dense, bush-trained 2 L plants focused on rapid bed coverage and low maintenance, exploiting compact habit and ADR-supported resistance – landscape contractor / municipal framework supply
- Mass-planting groundcover unit – High-volume 1.5 L project line for flower beds and groundcover, using fast coverage and self-cleaning clusters to minimise grooming – project-serving wholesaler assortments
- Pollinator-friendly urban edge – 1.5–2 L edging product highlighting semi-double, open, pollinator-attracting blooms and glossy foliage for visually strict but biodiversity-conscious schemes – public-realm and housing-association tenders
- Collection block for thematic gardens – Uniform own-root blocks for show and thematic rose gardens, capitalising on stable deep-pink colour and compact, floribunda structure – specialist nurseries and collection managers
- Container landscape feature – Dense, floriferous shrubs grown on for larger landscape containers (40–50 L final) to anchor urban plazas with low-input, colour-stable planting – design-and-build landscape integrators
Technical cultivar profile
| Parameter |
Data |
| Name and registration |
Floribunda and landscape shrub rose marketed as GARTENFREUND® Kordes‘ Klima-Rosen® KORhopiko, with registered name KORhopiko and ARS exhibition name Flamingo Kolorscape™, positioned as a pink landscape shrub. |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred by Tim-Hermann Kordes at W. Kordes’ Söhne from unnamed seedlings in Germany, breeding year 2001, introduced and registered in 2013 with EU PBR and US Plant Patent 23 529 securing commercial protection. |
| Awards and recognition |
Holds ADR certification from 2013 and multiple international gold medals, including La Tacita in Italy, Hradec in the Czech Republic and Lyon in France, confirming robust garden performance and ornamental value. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Compact, moderately thorny bush 60–85 cm high and 45–65 cm wide, with dense, dark green, glossy foliage forming a coherent landscape shrub structure well suited to bed, edging and groundcover applications in projects. |
| Flower morphology |
Semi-double, cupped, medium-sized blooms with 13–25 petals are carried in clusters, remonting freely with a notably abundant second flush, supporting long seasonal coverage in bed plantings and massed landscape use. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Vibrant, saturated deep pink flowers with subtle fuchsia undertone; buds dark pink with crimson tinge, colour lightening slightly in strong sun yet generally stable, with pastel silvery edging as blooms age, ARS dp, RHS 57C/57B. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Very weakly scented rose with only a barely noticeable, slightly fruity fragrance, favouring visual impact and landscape utility over scent emphasis, appropriate where olfactory requirements are low or secondary. |
| Hip characteristics |
Produces moderate numbers of small red, ovoid hips around 6–9 mm in diameter, which may offer some additional ornamental interest in landscape and collection plantings later in the season. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Rated H7, hardy approximately to −32 to −29 °C, with good general disease resistance including resistance to powdery mildew, medium black spot tolerance and resistance to rust, suitable for robust landscape deployment. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Recommended for flower beds, parks, urban green spaces, groundcover, edging and containers, with low maintenance needs, minimal pruning and feeding, and finished as uniform, dense bushes for project mass-planting routes. |
GARTENFREUND® (KORhopiko) combines compact, fast-covering growth, ADR-backed resistance and H7 hardiness with predictable, regenerative own-root performance, making it a reliable landscape workhorse for which we invite You to discuss volumes and scheduling.
