Easy Elegance® Champagne Wishes Bare Root Rose Bush

About Easy Elegance® Champagne Wishes Bare Root Rose Bush

Rosa ‘BAIcham’ — Easy Elegance® Champagne Wishes
🧬 Breeder: Ping Lim / Easy Elegance® Roses
🌹 Rose Type: Shrub Rose
🥂 Apricot buds unfurl into creamy antique-white roses before fading to pure white—Champagne Wishes is soft, elegant, and effortlessly romantic.

If Champagne Wishes were a color, it wouldn't simply be white.

It would be champagne.

This beautiful Easy Elegance® shrub begins with softly colored apricot buds that gradually open into full, romantic flowers of antique white touched with warm apricot.

As the flowers mature, that warmth slowly disappears until the blooms become a beautiful, clear white.

Because Champagne Wishes is a recurrent bloomer, flowers at several stages can appear on the shrub together—giving the plant a wonderfully subtle mixture of apricot, cream, champagne, and white.

And like the rest of the Easy Elegance® collection, there's something practical underneath all that romance:

Cold hardiness, disease resistance, repeat flowering, and easy garden performance.

💐 Plant & Flower Traits

🌹 Rose Type: Shrub Rose
🎨 Color: Soft apricot buds opening antique white with a hint of apricot, eventually fading to clear white
🌸 Bloom Form: Full, double flowers
🌼 Bloom Size: Approximately 3 inches
🌼 Petal Count: Approximately 24–31 petals
🔁 Flowering Habit: Recurrent — repeat blooms throughout the growing season
💐 Flower Production: Flowers appear abundantly in clusters
🌿 Foliage: Medium green
🛡️ Disease Resistance: Excellent
✂️ Cut Flower: Yes — excellent for cutting

🏡 Growth & Garden Habits

🌱 Growth Habit: Upright and rounded
↕️ Height: Approximately 3–4 feet
↔️ Width: Approximately 2–3 feet
☀️ Light Requirements: Full sun
❄️ Hardiness: USDA Zones 4–7
🔥 AHS Heat Zone: 7
🌿 Garden Use: Mixed borders, low hedges, rose gardens, cutting gardens, foundation plantings, mass plantings, and specimen plantings

🥂 From Apricot to Champagne to White

The magic of Champagne Wishes is in the transition.

It begins with soft apricot buds.

As those buds unfurl, the flowers become a warm antique white, still holding just enough apricot through the petals to give them that beautiful champagne appearance.

Then, as the flowers mature, they fade to a clean, clear white.

Put all those stages together on one flowering shrub and the effect is wonderfully nuanced.

Not stark white.

Not yellow.

Not peach.

Champagne.

And really, what could be more appropriate for a rose called Champagne Wishes?

🤍 A White Rose That Doesn't Feel Cold

Pure white roses can sometimes feel very formal in a garden.

Champagne Wishes is different.

Those warm apricot undertones soften the flowers and give them an almost vintage quality.

That makes this rose especially beautiful in romantic garden palettes.

Pair it with blush pink.

Soft apricot.

Lavender.

Silvery foliage.

Pale blue.

Or let it mingle with flowering perennials in a cottage-style border.

It's neutral enough to work almost anywhere but interesting enough that it never feels ordinary.

🏆 An Award-Winning Rose

Champagne Wishes isn't simply pretty.

It was named the:

2017 Portland Rose Society Best Rose Winner

That recognition adds another layer to a rose already selected for the strong garden performance associated with the Easy Elegance® collection.

Beautiful enough to win awards.

Practical enough to actually live in your garden.

We like that combination.

🌿 Made for the Mixed Border

Champagne Wishes is especially useful because it doesn't have to live in a formal rose garden.

Its 3–4-foot height, rounded habit, neutral coloring, and repeat flowering allow it to mingle beautifully with other plants.

Try it with:

Lavender.

Nepeta.

Salvia.

Delphinium.

White hydrangeas.

Blue-green grasses.

Silvery Artemisia.

Or other roses in blush, peach, lavender, and soft yellow.

It also makes a beautiful low flowering hedge, where several plants together can create a long sweep of creamy-white flowers.

🧬 Bred by Ping Lim

Champagne Wishes comes from the breeding work of renowned rose hybridizer Ping Lim, whose roses have become known for combining traditional beauty with modern garden durability.

That philosophy is at the heart of Easy Elegance® Roses.

Instead of asking gardeners to choose between beautiful flowers and easy-care plants, the breeding program focuses on delivering both.

Champagne Wishes gives you the soft, full flowers you'd expect from a romantic garden rose on a shrub selected for repeat flowering, cold hardiness, and disease resistance.

🌹 The Easy Elegance® Difference

Easy Elegance® roses were created around a refreshingly simple idea:

Roses should be beautiful without being difficult.

The collection emphasizes:

Reliable repeat flowering

Strong disease resistance

Cold hardiness

Attractive growth habits

Beautiful garden-worthy flowers

Champagne Wishes brings all of those characteristics together in one particularly elegant package.

💛 Why Grace Rose Farm Loves It

Champagne Wishes is what happens when a white rose gets dressed up for dinner.

It doesn't begin white.

It begins apricot.

Then it slips into that gorgeous antique champagne-cream.

Finally, it finishes in crisp, clear white.

We love roses that reward you for looking closely, and Champagne Wishes changes enough through the life of each flower that there's always something new happening on the plant.

Then there's the practicality.

It's hardy through Zone 4.

It's disease resistant.

It repeat blooms.

It makes a beautiful cut flower.

And at roughly 3–4 feet tall, it's incredibly easy to incorporate into the landscape.

Elegant without being fussy.

Romantic without being fragile.

We'll raise a glass to that.

🌿 Growing & Care Recommendations

Planting Site: Choose a location receiving at least 6 hours of direct sunlight each day.

Soil: Plant in fertile, well-drained soil. Incorporating organic matter can help improve both drainage and moisture retention.

Spacing: Allow approximately 2½–3 feet between plants when creating a hedge or mass planting.

Watering: Water deeply after planting and maintain consistent moisture while your bare-root rose establishes its new root system.

Pruning: Prune in early spring, removing dead or damaged wood and lightly shaping the shrub before the season's new growth begins.

Fertilizing: Feed with a balanced rose fertilizer as new growth begins in spring and according to your rose-care program during active growth.

Cutting: Don't be afraid to bring Champagne Wishes indoors. The creamy antique-white flowers are particularly beautiful mixed with blush, apricot, lavender, or pale pink roses.

Hedge Planting: Plant several Champagne Wishes together to create a refined flowering hedge approximately 3–4 feet tall.