Rose Bengali

Rose ‘Bengali’ is free flowering, with fully double apricot flowers. The blooms have a strong perfume, rating an impressive 4/5 on our fragrance scale. It is a floribunda with mid green, glossy foliage.

Rose ‘Bengali’ has excellent disease resistance and grows 1m tall and 50cm wide. It is a multi award winner and one of it’s accolades includes a gold in 2010 at the ADR (the prestigious German trials; Allgemeine Deutsche Rosenneuheitenprüfung).

Would any other Rose smell as sweet? Tesselaar has selected this Rose variety especially for its fragrance, you can rest assured it is also vigorous, hardy and disease resistant.

Rose bushes are upright, elegant shrubs that are adorned twice a year with spectacular, showy blooms.

The basics of rose care are simply ...

1. Keep the plants moist at all times, but never allow the roots to sit in water.

2. Feed generously, and frequently, two or three times over the flowering season.

3. Keep pests to a minimum (this is usually not a problem if you start with a strong variety, and keep it well watered and well fed).

4. Prune back once a year.

5. Keep the area around the roots weed free, and ensure 4-6 hours of sun per day. Loamy soils are ideal, though Roses will grow in heavy top soils (if well drained) and sandy soils (if kept watered and fed more frequently). For Roses to thrive, good drainage is critical.