Rose Home Run

* Common name: Rose Home Run(R)

* Botanical name: Rosa ‘WEKcisbako’

* What it is: A highly disease-resistant, no-spray shrub rose that blooms most of the growing season in clusters of blood-red with yellow stamens in the center. Blooms fade to slightly rosy-red.

*Size: 3 to 4 feet tall and wide

* Where to use: Clustered in a sunny island bed, as a border hedge or as foundation shrubs along a south- or west-facing wall.

* Care: Cut back to ankle high in March before new growth begins and fertilize with Rose-tone or Flower-tone. Can be lightly sheared after first main round of blooms finishes in mid-summer. No spray needed. Water only in bad drought.

* Great partner: Coreopsis ‘Golden Gain’ or ‘Zagreb.’