Magic Blanket Cityflor® TANigino – pharmaROSA® NEONATAL rooted cutting
Coverage is the defining trait of Magic Blanket Cityflor® TANigino, delivering a dense, ground-hugging canopy that supports mass planting concepts and project-led schemes where fast, even surface occupation matters. This ADR-certified cultivar combines strong disease resistance with a spreading, bushy habit, producing uniform, bright white, cup-shaped clusters that read clearly at distance in park and streetscape settings. Its own-root form gives long-term stability for nursery networks that require predictable renewal, with young tray-rooted cuttings suited to scalable 1.5–2 L production en route to uniform, dense, bush-trained finished stock. The heat-tolerant performance, well aligned to exposed UK planting schemes with good wind and winter tolerance, supports public-realm portfolios where reliable coverage and low intervention are priorities. Low-maintenance character, good self-cleaning and semi-double, medium-fragrant flowers enable streamlined maintenance regimes for landscape contractors. As own-root material develops from roots in year one, structural framework in year two and full ornamental expression by year three, it underpins durable projects, sustainable stock building and homogeneous beds for professional, wholesale-scale groundcover offers.
Usage options
Finished-product ideas
- 1.5–2 L project groundcover line – Uniform, dense, bush-trained 1.5–2 L plants positioned as a white groundcover workhorse for mass planting, leveraging fast coverage and ADR-backed disease resistance – landscape contractor / project-serving wholesaler
- Municipal park series container – NEONATAL-based 1.5–2 L stock branded as a low-maintenance park and streetscape series, highlighting good self-cleaning and own-root longevity – municipal framework supplier
- White thematic rose collection unit – Curated white-theme SKU within a broader rose collection, using uniform, bush-trained plants to anchor contrast beds and thematic rose gardens – specialist nursery / show-garden partner
- Groundcover renovation pack – Batch-oriented supply for park and estate renovation, offering predictable spread and dense canopy from own-root material for rapid surface closure – estate manager / large-scale renovation contractor
- Public-realm edging and border SKU – Production aimed at linear edging and border transition roles, exploiting the cultivar’s moderate height and strong lateral spread – public-realm and infrastructure planting supplier
Technical cultivar profile
| Parameter |
Data |
| Name and registration |
Groundcover shrub rose in the Cityflor collection, commercial type groundcover rose; registered as TANigino, traded as Magic Blanket Cityflor® TANigino, ARS exhibition name Magic Blanket®. |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred by Hans Jürgen Evers at Rosen Tantau, Germany, from unnamed seedling parents; introduced and registered in 1992 in Germany, with Rosen Tantau as initial distributor for international markets. |
| Awards and recognition |
Holds ADR-Rose certification (Germany, 1995), indicating proven garden performance under practical trial conditions with emphasis on health, robustness, ornamental value and low-maintenance suitability. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Spreading, ground-hugging shrub 55–90 cm high with 150–220 cm spread, dense, glossy light green foliage and moderately thorny shoots, forming a compact, weed-suppressing canopy suited to mass plantings. |
| Flower morphology |
Semi-double, cup-shaped blooms with 13–25 petals, medium-sized clusters on branching stems, flowering in waves with good rebloom and an abundant second flush throughout the season under normal management. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Dazzling snow-white flowers, ARS code w, RHS 155A outer and 155C inner, opening pure white with silky sheen; colour is heat and rain resistant, fading slowly to creamy white with a more matt appearance. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Medium-strength, softly sweet fragrance clearly noticeable at close range, contributing to user experience in public areas without being overpowering, with semi-double flowers moderately attractive to pollinating insects. |
| Hip characteristics |
Produces small numbers of spherical red hips, around 8–12 mm diameter, after flowering; hips are visually discreet and do not dominate the ornamental effect of the white groundcover canopy in most settings. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Classed as resistant to powdery mildew, black spot and rust; hardy to approximately –32 to –29 °C (RHS H7, Swedish Zone 5, USDA 4b), with good heat and drought tolerance given supplementary irrigation in long dry spells. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Recommended for groundcover, flower beds, parks, urban green spaces and borders; ideal for project mass planting with low maintenance, minimal pruning and feeding, produced as uniform, dense, bush-trained finished material. |
Magic Blanket Cityflor® TANigino combines fast, uniform groundcover, ADR-level health and low-input management with predictable, regenerative own-root stands, making it a strong candidate for aligning propagation capacity and project schedules in your portfolio.
