Pink Ricco Amorina – pharmaROSA® NEONATAL rooted cutting
Groundcover production with Pink Ricco Amorina offers a compact, uniform shrub habit that lends itself to predictable 1.5–2 L project lines and dense bed runs, with own‑root stability supporting long‑term landscape contracts and collection planting. The semi‑double, mid‑pink, cup‑shaped flowers provide reliable colour impact through remontant, clustered flowering, followed by conspicuous orange‑red hips that extend the ornamental season into autumn for thematic rose gardens and curated collections. Once established, good tolerance of heat and moderate drought helps maintain display quality in exposed UK sites where winter and wind resilience is required in public and institutional schemes, supporting coverage at mass‑planting scale. Low maintenance needs – only occasional watering and light pruning – fit modern nursery and contractor workflows, while a dense, glossy, dark green foliage canopy ensures consistent ground‑covering density. As an own‑root, tray‑grown cutting, this material can be integrated into propagation beds or container systems with predictable development from root establishment in year one to structural canopy in year two and full ornamental value in year three, giving you scheduling control across wholesale and project‑serving channels.
Usage options
Finished-product ideas
- 1.5–2 L project groundcover line – Uniform, bush‑trained, compact plants in 1.5–2 L pots for fast bed coverage, built on own‑root stability and low maintenance needs – landscape contractor and project‑serving wholesaler ranges
- Pink border accent series – Semi‑double mid‑pink flowering with remontant clusters in 1.5–2 L units, positioned for borders and urban green spaces requiring colour continuity – public‑realm and institutional framework supply
- Autumn hip display collection – Lines selected and promoted for strong orange‑red hip set after flowering, grown as dense, uniform groundcover blocks – thematic rose gardens and show‑garden partners
- Compact infrastructure edging module – Tray‑to‑1.5 L pathway for compact, ground‑covering shrubs designed for verges and path edges with minimal pruning – infrastructure and housing‑estate landscape contractors
- Private‑label Amorina® groundcover concept – Own‑root, verified‑identity Pink Ricco Amorina positioned as a named mid‑pink groundcover SKU within branded ranges – retail‑facing nurseries and integrated nursery networks
Technical cultivar profile
| Parameter |
Data |
| Name and registration |
Groundcover shrub rose marketed as Pink Ricco Amorina Amorina RUIRJ0065A, commercial group Ground cover; registered cultivar name RUIRJ0065A with verified cultivar authenticity for professional propagation. |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred by De Ruiter Innovations B.V. in the Netherlands, introduced around 2021 for groundcover and shrub use; parentage is unknown and registration year data are not provided. |
| Awards and recognition |
Recognised with Certificates of Excellence from Boskoop’s Royal Horticultural Society (KVBC), indicating demonstrable horticultural merit for professional landscape and nursery use. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Compact, dense shrub with 30–55 cm height and 35–60 cm spread, moderately thorny shoots and glossy, dark green, full foliage delivering effective ground coverage in beds, borders and mass plantings. |
| Flower morphology |
Semi‑double, cup‑shaped blooms with 13–25 petals in small S‑sized clusters (around 0.5–1.5 inches), remontant flowering with an abundant second flush supporting extended seasonal impact. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Warm, even mid‑pink flowers (ARS MP, RHS 62C outer, 62D inner) opening vivid, then lightening to a pale, slightly powdery pink before fading, with uniform mid‑pink at full bloom for consistent display blocks. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Mild, pleasantly sweet aroma with restrained scent intensity; semi‑double form and limited fragrance mean only partial pollinator attractiveness, so it functions primarily as an ornamental groundcover. |
| Hip characteristics |
Regularly forms decorative spherical hips, 16–24 mm diameter, in a conspicuous orange‑red, providing notable autumn and early winter interest where fruiting is allowed to develop on mature stands. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Very susceptible to powdery mildew, black spot and rust, requiring appropriate health management; once established, tolerates heat and moderate drought, with hardiness to about −32 to −29 °C (RHS H7, USDA 4b, Swedish zone 5). |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Recommended for flower beds, parks, borders, urban green spaces and specimen use in mass planting, produced as uniform, dense, bush‑trained finished plants in 1.5–2 L pots for project‑oriented deployment. |
Pink Ricco Amorina offers compact groundcover habit, low maintenance needs and decorative hips on a predictable own-root base, supporting homogeneous, long-lived stands for project work; we would be pleased to discuss volumes, timing and integration into your production.
