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Oso Easy Lemon Zest Rose in our back yard If a plant makes it in our yard two years, it earns a spot in our hearts and in your garden. We do not baby our plants because we have full lives and almost 3-acres to take care of. About half of the plants we put into the ground do not survive. So! Plants that thrive deserve a mention. These two Oso Easy Lemon Zest rose shrubs went in two summers ago during the height of the rose rosette plague. We forget to water them. They have never been treated with insect or fungal spray in those two years. I have never had to clip blight from them. This spring I gave them a drenching with seaweed/fish emulsion. That's it for their care other than one pruning to clean them up in the spring. These are from the fine growers, Spring Meadow Nursery in Fergus Falls, MN. We only have the Lemon Zest ones but there are a dozen colors to choose among. Just click over to this Proven Winners Link to see the rest. We're in zone 7 and they have...

My garden writer friend Russell Studebaker who is known as World Famous Horticulturist (he writes for the Tulsa World newspaper) passed on to me an Oso Easy Rose from his Proven Winners garden-writer bounty.   No spraying. No pruning necessary. No deadheading to get a re-bloom!   Matures at 2 or 3 feet tall and wide in full sun. Hardy from zones 4 to 9.    Fertilize and prune to shapein early spring.     Oso Easy Honey Bun - Proven Winners There are lots of other colors if Honey isn't your thing. Click over to www.provenwinners.com to see the rest.