Cupid's Kisses™ Climbing Rose

Looking for a showy standout to decorate your patio or courtyard? Cover your trellis or fence with a smattering of cute little "kisses"! Get ready to fall in love with compact Cupid's Kisses™ Climbing Rose (Rosa 'WEKtriscala')! This outrageously pretty compact climber has been bred to be the perfect size for modern gardens. This splashy little Climbing Rose stays small, but blooms and blooms all summer long!

Clusters of petite ruffled white Rose blooms are edged in brilliant cerise pink. The center seems spotlit with a bright yellow and white eye that acts like a bulls-eye for butterflies! The decorative, informal pink and white blooms on this patio Climbing Rose will make you smile! You won't believe the flower power of this award-winning Rose by famous hybridizer, Christian Bédard.

Small flowers are held in medium-sized clusters. Cupid's Kisses™ blooms absolutely cover the canes. Bright, tiny leaves provide a decorative backdrop for those eye-catching informal, ruffled blooms. Modern genetics make the super-clean foliage disease-resistant. Hardy throughout USDA growing zones from chilly 5 winters through the heat of zone 10!

For the fastest results, look for the largest container size we have in stock, as these are older plants that have received years of expert care at our nursery.

Planting and Application:

This patio-sized Rose would be a great floral wall for a special garden room. Grow it up along a sturdy trellis or along an arbor and get ready to fall in love with your space! Cover an old, ugly fence with the beauty of Cupid's Kisses Rose. You'll be ecstatic with the end result! Pair with other Miniature Roses or flowering perennials to complete the look!

Plant Cupid's Kisses™ Rose in a deep planter at the base. Train the canes up to create a private flowering bower on a porch or patio, or climb up a lamp post by your front door or the entrance to your driveway!

Gazebos, arches, lattices, towers, and obelisks are all classic supports for climbers! They add elegance, height, and year-round visual interest to your courtyard or garden! Space-saving miniature climbing Roses like this only reach 6-8 feet in height and spread to a 3-4 foot wide span, allowing even the smallest of gardens to find a place fitting for these darling blooms!

Cupid's Kisses™ Rose can even become a lovely privacy wall. Add inspiration to your yard with a sturdy trellis installed along your balcony railing. Combine Roses with Clematis vines for a custom look. Pick from white or pink to coordinate, or add a bold accent with purple or red blooms! Or include it in a Children's Garden to spark imagination and add color to their world!

• Climbing Miniature Rose With Up to 25 Petals per Double Bloom
• Lipstick Pink "Kissed" Against White Petal Base
• Pretty Bi-Color Blooms Held in Clusters & Bold Yellow Stamens
• Fruity Fragrance - Great for Cut Flowers & Pollinators
• Blooms From Late Spring to Fall
• Establishes Quickly & Readily Trained on a Trellis
• Refined Foliage in Scale with Mini Blooms
• Vertical Color & Fragrance - Landscape, Garden Bed & Containers

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Grow Cupid's Kisses Roses in full sun. They need at least six hours of sunlight a day. Install your trellis several inches away from any wall. Roses also require plenty of air circulation. Well-drained soil is also important, as their roots won't tolerate standing water. Use a container, or create a raised bed if you have thick, soggy soil.

Dig your planting hole twice as wide as the roots, but no deeper. Keep the soil level the same as we have grown it at the nursery. Add the symbiotic ingredients of Nature Hills Root Booster into the planting hole. It will never "wear out", and gives support to the tiny feeder roots over their entire lifetime.

You'll want to supply a consistent schedule of water. Place a three-inch layer of mulch over the root zone, then pull it back away from directly touching the canes. Reblooming Roses like Cupid's Kisses™ need supplemental feeding, so provide a specialty Rose fertilizer, following the label instructions.

How to Prune and Train Climbing Roses

Pruning should not be done during the first two to three years, since Climbing Roses need time to build flowering Rose canes. These structural canes will grow thicker for several years before it is time to replace them.

Spring Pruning and Structural Rejuvenation

Remember that spring pruning is most limited to removing broken branches, and dead tips or correcting the structure of the Climbing Roses. If you remove long canes and side branching you will be removing the first set of June flowers.

1. Prune Roses in early spring just as you see new buds beginning to swell.
2. Remove any dead, diseased, or damaged branches.
3. Identify several new, younger, more vigorous canes to become the new structural foundation of your beautiful Climbing Rose.
4. Remove the fattest, oldest canes out at the soil level, if possible and right after the first set of flowers finishes. Those canes will be replaced with new shoots that develop from the base. As these new, rapidly produced shoots elongate, you will want to direct, train, and tie them into the place you would like them to develop.

Summer Maintenance and Pruning

Horizontal branches produce the most flowers. Prune these secondary canes after flowering, because Climbing Roses bloom on last year's canes (old wood).

1. Cut your secondary canes down to 6 - 8 inches above a bud after the first flush of flowers has finished.
2. Trim the secondary canes back at 90 to 45-degree angles.
3. Keep your structural support canes in place.

In colder regions it may be more difficult to maintain Climbing Roses, so choosing your planting site is important.

Winter protection is best for Roses grown in zones 7 and colder. Mulch is your best, more natural way to overwinter roses by mounding the dormant canes in late fall. Don't fall prune, rather instead wait until spring.

Read all you need about Rose pruning Roses Here, and about winterizing your Roses Here, and un-wintering Roses in Spring in our #ProPlantTips Garden Blog!

• Full Sun
• Provide Adequate Support
• Moderate Regular Moisture & Fertility
• Prune Very Early Spring
• Easy Care Modern Rose
• Very Good Disease Resistance!

Choose Cupid's Kisses Climbing Roses for a quick to establish vertical bloomer and the flower power to back it up! Order lipstick pink blooms that don't quit all season! They'll bring a wonderfully romantic look to your garden, so order yours today at NatureHills.com!

Rose Bush FAQs

Where Is The Best Place To Plant Rose Bushes?

Rose Trees need a protected location and prefer full sun and favor the drying power of the morning sun and flower best in at least 6 hours of direct sunlight a day. Choose a location in good, enriched soil that drains well and has good air circulation.

What Is The Best Month to Plant Roses?

You can plant Roses any time if you can provide enough consistent moisture and attention. There is not a specific month that is best, generally because it changes with temperatures, climate and growing zone. However, the easiest times of the year to get Rose bushes established in your landscape are in spring after the last frost date, and in fall about 4-6 weeks before the first frost.

Do Roses Come Back Every Year?

Rose bushes are deciduous woody perennial shrubs and will return bigger and better each year.

How Do I Find Rose Bushes & Trees for Sale Near Me?

Make your life easier and your yard happier by shopping for Roses at NatureHills.com online nursery. You'll find a massive selection of Rose bushes for sale, including many lovely Tree-form varieties!

Choose the right shrub for your area by first finding your growing zone by entering your zip code in the field above the Plant Highlights section on our product pages. Narrow down your options by plant hardiness zone, sun availability, and size requirements.

Place your order, knowing it's backed by the Nature Hills Nursery product guarantee and protected by Plant Sentry™, which helps ensure regulated plant materials aren't sent to prohibited areas.

Expect to receive your plants at the appropriate planting time for your growing zone when temperatures are safest to ship through and into.

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NatureHills.com works closely with our growers and nursery professionals to ensure we ship when it is most appropriate for your area. Our goal is to deliver the hardiest plants by avoiding extreme high and low temperatures. Check out our shipping schedule for more information and to learn our wills and don'ts when it comes to shipping plants. Find your Roses for sale here at NatureHills.com!