Brick House® Rose

The Big Bad Wolf had no trouble with that straw house, but he couldn’t touch the brick house – smart pig! When you grow the Brick House™ Rose, your rose growing won’t be blown apart by disease and tough conditions either, but you can sit back and enjoy continuous blooming from early in the season right to the very end. The beautiful brick-red blooms just keep coming and coming on this compact and bushy plant which is highly resistant to black spot, and able to shrug off less serious problems as well. There are lots of roses to choose from, but few that are as reliable as this one. Everyone loves roses, and today we don’t have to bother with the old-fashioned and dangerous spraying routines, or sit waiting months for blooms to arrive. You will love this red beauty, out in the garden or as a spray in a vase indoors. Build a strong, durable and wolf-resistant garden with the Brick House™ Rose – you can’t go wrong.

Growing the Brick House™ Rose

Size and Appearance

The Brick House Rose is a bushy Floribunda-type rose that grows within a season into a bush between 3 and 4 feet tall, and the same width across. It has a dense form, with many branches, and doesn’t grow tall and awkward like many older types of roses do. The semi-glossy leaves are dark-green, with a healthy appearance unblemished by diseases. They are compound leaves of usually 5 leaflets, each one about 2 inches long, pointed ovals with a serrated edge. Each stem carries a cluster of up to 9 blossoms, opening in succession to give a long bloom period. As fast as a cluster fades new stems, with new blooms on them, sprout out. This keep the bush more or less in continuous flowering form early summer right into fall. This variety starts to bloom earlier than most roses – an added bonus.

The flowers are 2½ inches across, with 14 to 16 large, full petals forming an open, cup-shaped bloom. The bloom has excellent texture, with thick, velvety petals of a stunning rich red. The color is deep but bright, with wonderful depth and quality, like a muted scarlet from an antique royal robe. When fully open the blooms reveal a pale yellow heart of tight stamens, and the blooms last up to a week each, with more always coming. The petals fall cleanly and since no hips develop dead-heading is entirely optional and unnecessary for continuous blooming.

Using the Brick House™ Rose in Your Garden

The continuous profusion of blooms, combined with its bushy, compact form, makes this rose perfect for the garden, as a shrub among your other flowering bushes. Plant it as a single specimen in a smaller space, or in groups of 3, 5 or more, spacing plants 2 feet apart in each direction. Make a wonderful border along a path or driveway, or frame a gate or door with this beautiful rose. It can also be grown in warmer zones in outdoor planters and boxes with drainage holes, using a mixture of 20% garden soil and 80% shrub potting soil.

Hardiness

In the ground the Brick House Rose is hardy from zone 5 through zone 8. Planters can be used in zones 7 and 8.

Sun Exposure and Soil Conditions

Full sun is best for maximum blooming, but an hour or two of shade a day will have little effect. Like all roses the Brick House Rose grows best in heavy loam or clay soils. Enrich sandy soils with plenty of rich organic material like compost or rotted manures. The soil should drain well, but regular watering is needed for continuous blooming – although plants survive moderate drought easily, it tends to reduce or stop blooms, depending on its severity.

Maintenance and Pruning

The Brick House Rose has outstanding resistance to the disease Black Spot, which causes yellowing and leaf-drop in so many roses. Your bush will stay clean and leafy all season. It also has good resistance to other diseases and its vigor means that pests rarely get a chance to take hold. For minor pests we recommend our Neem Oil Spray. Don’t cut new stems that grow through summer until after they have bloomed, when they can be shortened back if needed. In late winter or early spring remove any thin, broken or dead stems, and shorten back the remaining sturdy ones by one-third to one-half, back to a vigorous bud. Dead-heading is rarely needed through the season.

History and Origin of the Brick House™ Rose

The famous French family of Meilland have a long-tradition of rose breeding, at least back to the Peace rose created during the World War II occupation of that country. Today Alain Meilland heads the family’s breeding, and he created this wonderful rose. He took pollen from one of his family’s varieties, a red rose called Tamango® (`Meidanu`), and used it on another red rose bred in Germany called Kronjuwel® (`Noawel`). Among the resulting seedlings was one that stood out for its wonderful color, endless blooming, disease resistance and compact form. He named it `Meitraligh` and was granted a US patent in 2019. This rose is released in America by Star® Roses and Plants with the trademark name of Brick House™.

Buying the Brick House™ Rose at the Tree Center

With a rose like this your garden display is ‘safe as houses’, and sure to please. For vigor, durability, and brilliant color it can’t be beaten. Brighten your garden for the season with the Brick House™ Rose, but order now because we have limited stock of this new variety, and the demand is huge.