Lions-Rose® MärchenRosen® KORvanaber – pharmaROSA® NEONATAL rooted cutting
With its reliable remontant flowering, compact bushy habit and disease-resistant foliage, Lions-Rose® offers professional growers a stable floribunda base for nursery beds, standard container routes and wholesale park or urban schemes. The cream-white, cup-shaped blooms hold colour extremely well, combining ADR-level hardiness with low-maintenance, bush-trained structure that suits 2–3 L production and subsequent up-potting to larger landscape formats. Own-root NEONATAL material supports predictable, homogeneous stands and low replacement rates over the long term, aligning well with collection, public-realm and retail-reseller ranges in climates where winter and wind tolerance favours consistent UK-wide supply. Development typically moves from root establishment in year one through structural shoot formation in year two, reaching full ornamental value by year three, underpinning planning and capacity security for scalable finished-product programmes.
Usage options
Finished-product ideas
- 2–3 L Lions-Rose® retail floribunda – Own-root, bush-trained, compact plants in standard 2–3 L containers, leveraging reliable remontant flowering and strong disease resistance – retail / reseller bedding ranges
- 40–50 L park and campus specimen – Up-potted, own-root shrubs from 2–3 L lines grown to 40–50 L for institutional entrances and feature beds, using hardiness and low-maintenance habit – public-realm and campus projects
- Award-winner MärchenRosen® collection line – Curated bench or bed mix highlighting ADR, Gold Standard and RHS AGM, utilising strong colour retention and compact growth – independent garden centres and specialist nurseries
- Urban border and streetscape pack – Bulk-specified floribunda units from NEONATAL-based production, combining disease resistance, good heat/drought tolerance and self-cleaning flowers – wholesale landscape and municipal supply
- Private-label cream-white floribunda concept – Own-root, reliable garden performance floribunda with stable colour and remontant habit as the backbone of a branded cream/white series – chain retail and integrator programmes
Technical cultivar profile
| Parameter |
Data |
| Name and registration |
Floribunda bed rose registered as KORvanaber, marketed as Lions-Rose® within the MärchenRosen® collection, with verified cultivar authenticity for professional own-root propagation use. |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred by Tim-Hermann Kordes (Germany) from Bernstein-Rose® × Nirvana®, breeding year 1999, introduced by W. Kordes’ Söhne in 2002 for robust garden and landscape deployment. |
| Awards and recognition |
ADR variety (2002), Gold Standard (UK, 2006), RHS Award of Garden Merit (2012), Rose of the Year (UK, 2006) plus multiple European competition medals confirming high, proven garden value. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Bushy, compact shrub 70–90 cm high and 50–70 cm spread, dark glossy foliage, moderately thorny, with good natural self-cleaning of spent blooms, supporting tidy, low-maintenance plantings. |
| Flower morphology |
Double, cup-shaped blooms with 26–39 petals, large (2.75–3.95 in) clustered inflorescences, remontant habit delivering a generous second flush suitable for decorative beds and borders. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Cream-white flowers with subtle peach centre; buds butter-yellow to cream; colour holds strongly, slowly lightening to almost snow-white, sometimes with a fine greenish edge in intense sun. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Mild, delicately sweet rose fragrance providing background scent without overpowering nearby plantings or public-realm routes, suitable where restrained but pleasant aroma is preferred. |
| Hip characteristics |
Limited hip set due to strongly double flowers; occasional small spherical orange-red hips 8–12 mm diameter, generally insignificant in commercial flowering-bed production contexts. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Very high disease resistance to powdery mildew, black spot and rust, with H7 hardiness to approximately –26 to –23 °C (USDA 5b, Swedish Zone 4), plus good performance in warm, drier periods. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Suited to flower beds, parks, borders, urban green and specimen use; low maintenance, minimal feeding and pruning; best as bush-trained compact plants via standard container routes from own-root stock. |
Lions-Rose® MärchenRosen® KORvanaber offers compact, disease-resistant, remontant performance from predictable own-root material, supporting long-lived, homogeneous stands for professional schedules; please contact us to coordinate volumes and timing.
