The Georgia Peach Shrub Rose

Rosa ‘Georgia Peach TM’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9a Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Modern Shrub Rose

Height at Maturity: 3-4′

Width at Maturity: 3-4′
Spacing: 2.5-3′ apart for hedges; 6’+ apart for space between

Growth Habit / Form: Bushy, Dense, Rounded, Upright

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: Peachy Pink

Flower Size: 3-4″

Flowering Period: Spring to Frost!

Flower Type: Double

Fragrant Flowers: Yes, Light fuity fragrance

Foliage Color: Bluish Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Drainage: Well drained

Soil pH: 5.5 – 6.5

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Disease, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity, Insects

Description

The Georgia Peach Shrub Rose was discovered by local gardener Beth Steele in McDonough, Georgia in 2010, and introduced by Wilson Bros Gardens in 2012. It is an exceptionally low-maintenance shrub rose that produces an abundance of gorgeous, peachy-pink double blossoms starting in early- to mid-spring and repeating in cycles throughout the season. The blossoms have a light fruity fragrance and measure 3 to 4 inches across when fully open. They are excellent for cutting to use in fresh floral arrangements. Since we planted the first Georgia Peach Rose in our gardens in 2011, we have yet to see any disease on the attractive bluish-green foliage. Insect resistance has been remarkably good as well.

The Georgia Peach Shrub Rose is a must have low-maintenance flowering beauty for every Georgia garden…and in gardens throughout USDA Zones 5a-9a Find Your Zone

Landscape & Garden Uses

With an upright habit and rounded form to about 3 feet in height with a 3 foot spread, the Georgia Peach Shrub Rose is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings, or as a low-maintenance hedge in landscape borders and home foundation plantings. Performs very well in pots, planters and other containers. As with the Knock Out Roses, the Georgia Peach is so disease-free it is one of the few roses we recommend for use in home foundation plantings, where they serve nicely as accents or hedges. A fine addition to rose gardens, pink theme gardens, cottage gardens and cut flower gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 2.5 to 3 feet apart for solid hedges; 6 feet or more apart for space between plants

Growing Preferences

The Georgia Peach Shrub Rose is exceptionally easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil with average or better fertility and full sun to part shade. Keep in mind, to avoid powdery mildew forming on the leaves, all roses require morning sun to dry the morning dew from their leaves, but will tolerate afternoon shade or filtered sun.

The Georgia Peach Rose does not require pruning, however can benefit from it. To keep your Georgia Peach Shrub Rose full and bushy from year to year prune the branches back to about 15 to 18 inches above the ground before new growth begins to emerge in late winter or early spring. After this hard pruning, you Georgia Peach Shrub Rose will quickly flush out and start blooming with the arrival of warmer spring temperatures. Deadheading spent flowers through the season is not necessary however will encourage new buds and more flowers.

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Bought this for Mother’s Day about 10-15 days before and it arrived safe and soundly packed just in time to plant it for Mother’s Day! It’s been about 2 weeks since then and we’ve already had 2 blooms and they smell heavenly.—————————-We are so glad yall are pleased! Beth | WBG

Wilson Bros continually deliver on nice healthy plants. As usual, this rose was packed well, not a single broken branch. Much to my surprise, this plant was fuller and bigger than I expected with several buds in place. 3 days later, those buds are now blooming and these really are very pretty roses, and the color is spectacular. The only reason I didn’t give 5 stars was because the roses themselves aren’t as large as the description stated they were. At most, they were an inch across fully bloomed. The blooms themselves were marginally just a little bigger than miniature tea roses. Regardless, it’s a very pretty rose to add to your collection. Compact and rounded in shape and form.————————Hi Kenny, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the The Georgia Peach Rose. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! But, I wish you would contact Customer Service, there may have been a mistake with labeling or picking….we do carry a Peach Drift Rose that has small blooms and really small dark green shiny leaves they may have sent that by mistake. They will ask you to send photos, and we can tell by looking at them. If that’s the case, I’m sure they will make it good. Have a great day!
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens

Just got my Georgia Peach Rose, 1 gallon, although the plant is bigger than the description, but that’s a great thing! Packaged beautifully with minimal breakage, with buds ready to bloom. Plant is very well formed, healthy, not crooked, lopsided or odd shaped. Repotted this lil guy and topped with some used coffee grounds. Looking forward to spectacular blooms! Thanks Wilson Bros!————————————–Hi Kenny, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the The Georgia Peach Shrub Rose. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! 🙂
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens

The plants were healthy, well packaged and grown to the right size for the pot’s. They are all growing nicely. The condition of my first order with Wilson Brothers a few months earlier was also excellent and is the reason that I placed a second order. ——————– WBG Reply: Hi Earl – Thanks so much for your review of the Georgia Peach Shrub Rose and for your compliments! Hope you enjoy this beauty for years to come. Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help you with. We’re at your service. – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens

The rose came nicely packaged and very healthy. I planted it on June 21 and it took off. The first rose appeared on July 20 and there are three other buds. The color is very beautiful. ——————– WBG Reply: Hi Charles – Thanks so much for your review of the Georgia Peach Rose and we hope you enjoy it for years to come. Glad to hear it took off well and is producing buds and flowers for you. I’ve been growing this one in my gardens for many years and can testify that is one beautiful and hardy rose that has thrived even with all the extremes the Georgia weather has thrown at it. Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help you with. We’re at your service – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens

Arrived quickly, well packaged, moist and in good shape. I now see new growth on it. I also see some yellowing, spotted leaves which I have picked off, hoping good care and keeping them picked off will cease the spread. —————— WBG Reply: Hi Jan – Thanks so much for your review of the Georgia Peach Rose and we hope you enjoy it for years to come. The yellowing leaves is most likely a little stress from transit and being in a dark environment for several says. We’ve had this one growing in our hot and humid north-central Georgia gardens for many years and it looks better every year. Keep us posted as to how it does for you. Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can do for you. We’re at your service! – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens

Bloomed the day after received! Was packed really well. I’m so impressed with how you ship. This rose is just as pictured and the plant is so healthy. I will be buying only from you in the future. Such excellent plants! —————— WBG Reply: Hi TJ – Thanks so much for your review of the Georgia peach Rose and for the compliments! It makes everything we do even more worth the while. We hope you enjoy this special rose as much as we have in our gardens for years to come. Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can do for you. We’re at your service! – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens

Oh my goodness! Wilson Bros. NEVER disappoints. Packaging is incredibly neat, tidy and secure. Plants arrive as though never in transit. Wilson Bros. is my first choice in mail order. No comparison. Thank you!! ——————– WBG Reply: Hi Barbara – Thanks again for the review and the compliments! It has been our pleasure to serve you. Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help you with. We’re at your service! – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens

This rose is exceptionally beautiful – lovely shape, lustrous green leaves, and it just blooms and blooms. I do deadhead. In a really rainy summer, we did spray it for black spot – but it wasn’t totally necessary. The blooms are a lovely peachy-pink, and when the bush is covered, it’s simply gorgeous. About as low maintenance as you can get, I highly recommend it. Give it space to breathe and maybe you won’t have any blackspot. ——– WBG Reply: Hi Janet – Thanks so much for all the feedback on The Georgia Peach Rose. We have the original plant growing in our gardens and it’s looking and performing as good in 2017 as it has from the beginning. We’ve yet to see any black spot on ours, but my guess is that it would be a temporary thing due to cloudy weather. In 2013 we had the rainiest summer on record in Georgia and the area it was in stayed saturated for a couple months. It wasn’t looking good at all by fall. Had very few leaves and several main branches turned black. We pruned and transplanted it and by the next spring it flushed back out to it’s normal size. Has been doing great ever since. A truly tough but beautiful rose! Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help you with. We’re at your service! – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens

I just love these roses! I bought two of them 4 years ago for a commemorative garden for my cousin. They arrived in a robust and healthy state. They flower from Early Spring to first frost. I live in Texas and the summer is really hot. These babies still put out blooms, despite the heat. They are now 4 ft tall and beautiful. One of my best purchases. I feed them once every two years, but they are well mulched. ———- WBG RESPONSE: Hi Desiree – I couldn’t agree with you more. I still have the original Georgia Peach Rose growing in my gardens. It’s been there since it was discovered in 2010. I’ve transplanted it three times and it’s still healthy as ever. It’s May 15 and I just took some pictures of the blooms a few days ago. It’s the second round of blooms so far this year. This is one tough but beautiful rose. Absolutely no disease and bugs don’t seem to like it. Anyway, I could go on and on about the special attributes of this rose but will stop here. Thanks for your review and let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help you with. Plant long and prosper!

Quick delivery,healthly plant. growing well.

Tehy came packaged so nice and secure. The plants were large and full and even had some blooms that smelled so nice

I bought this rose for a friend that had just lost her dog, named Georgia. She loved it! When she received it, it was full of buds and it started blooming within a few days. She said it was very healthy and a beautiful plant. Thank you, it made her day!

Planted my Georgia Peach Rose last fall. With the extra cold tough winter, I was afraid if it would survive. It has leafed out beautifully and already has buds on it! I’m extremely happy with it.