Schneewittchen® Park - shrub rose KORbin – pharmaROSA® NEONATAL rooted cutting
As a pharmaROSA® NEONATAL own-root cutting, Schneewittchen® offers a proven heritage cultivar in a compact, bush-trained form that aligns well with standard container production and reliable park and flower-bed programmes. Its bushy, upright structure, dense mid-green glossy foliage and sparsely thorned shoots support efficient spacing and handling in 2–3 L containers, with straightforward progression to larger landscape units. The variety’s immaculate white, double, cup-shaped flowers are borne in clustered, remontant flushes with an abundant second flowering, giving you consistent bed and hedge impact across the main sales and planting season. Medium disease tolerance, including black spot resistance, supports predictable quality, especially in professionally managed nursery systems serving public and urban projects where consistent white display matters under variable UK weather conditions and occasional humidity. In own-root form, Schneewittchen® builds long-term stability in stock beds, facilitating renewable cutting production, homogeneous stands and low replacement over the years. The development arc is naturally phased: roots in year one, structural branching in year two and full ornamental expression by year three, supporting reliable scheduling from propagation bed to finished product. With H7 winter hardiness and performance proven in demanding climates, it slots securely into UK nursery and landscape supply chains seeking stable, high-volume white park shrubs. This makes Schneewittchen® an efficient portfolio workhorse for standard finished product ranges focused on reliable garden performance for retail and reseller partners.
Usage options
Finished-product ideas
- Core 2–3 L white park shrub – Standard container production from NEONATAL cuttings, grown to a compact, bushy form with reliable remontant white flowering, forming the backbone of reliable garden performance ranges – retail / reseller distribution.
- Landscape hedge module – Batch-grown own-root units trained as bushy, upright hedging elements, started in 2–3 L and finished in 40–50 L for immediate park and urban green space planting – public-realm and contractor projects.
- Premium heritage white line – Branded collection highlighting Schneewittchen®’s renowned background, produced on own roots in standard containers with dense foliage and good self-cleaning for low-return retail assortments – brand-oriented garden centres.
- Urban shrub container – Robust shrub units with moderate maintenance needs, stepped from 2–3 L to larger containers for quick, clean establishment in high-traffic urban beds and plazas – municipal and institutional procurement.
- Collection garden specimen – Uniform own-root plants for thematic rose and show gardens, leveraging stable structure, controlled height and reliable white colour for long-term collection plantings – specialist nurseries and collection curators.
Technical cultivar profile
| Name and registration |
Shrub rose marketed as Schneewittchen® Park - shrub rose KORbin, registered cultivar name KORbin; also exhibited as Iceberg in ARS classification as a floribunda shrub rose and cut flower type. |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred by Reimer Kordes at W. Kordes’ Söhne, Germany, from the cross ‘Robin Hood’ × ‘Virgo’, bred and introduced in 1958, with initial distribution handled by W. Kordes’ Söhne in European markets. |
| Awards and recognition |
Widely decorated shrub rose: Baden-Baden Gold Medal and RNRS Gold Medal (1958), ADR distinction (1960, withdrawn 2004), RHS Award of Garden Merit (1993, confirmed 2012), and WFRS World Favourite Rose and Hall of Fame status. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Bushy, upright park shrub with dense, mid-green glossy foliage, sparsely thorned shoots, reaching 100–150 cm in height and 80–120 cm spread, offered as bush-trained, compact material suitable for standard container production pathways. |
| Flower morphology |
Large, double-flowered blooms with 26–39 petals, cup-shaped and borne in clusters; remontant, with an abundant second flowering that provides extended display in beds, hedges and park plantings when grown under professional conditions. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Radiant, uniform white flowers (ARS wh; RHS 155C outer, 155D inner) with pure snowy-white newly opened blooms, sometimes creamy-centred; colour fades very little, though petal edges may brown slightly in hot weather or intense sun. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Mild, sweet-scented rose fragrance of restrained strength, adding a pleasant but not overpowering scent component; very double flowers make it primarily ornamental, with low pollinator attraction due to limited access to stamens. |
| Hip characteristics |
Hip set is generally limited because of the double flower form; where present, hips are small, spherical, around 7–10 mm in diameter, globular and orange-red (RHS N34A), and usually of minor visual or production significance. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Medium overall disease resistance with good black spot resistance and medium tolerance to powdery mildew and rust; hardy to approximately −29 to −26 °C (RHS H7, USDA 5a, Swedish Zone 4), with moderate heat tolerance requiring regular irrigation in prolonged dry spells. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Recommended for flower beds, parks, urban green spaces, hedges and specimen use; moderate maintenance with occasional plant protection; best routed through standard container production, using bush-trained compact plants in 2–3 L pots for onward sales or landscape finishing. |
Schneewittchen® Park - shrub rose KORbin as own-root NEONATAL material combines reliable white flowering, robust structural habit and long-lived, regenerating stands for predictable programmes, making it a sound candidate to discuss for future capacity and scheduling.
