
Royal Bonica® Bare Root Rose Bush
About Royal Bonica® Bare Root Rose Bush
Rosa ‘MEImodac’ — Royal Bonica®
🌹 A modern Meilland shrub rose with regal presence and nonstop bloom power
Royal Bonica® is a richly colored evolution of the beloved Bonica® rose—bringing deeper pink blooms, fuller flower form, and even stronger garden performance. With its abundant clusters of warm, rose-pink blooms and exceptional repeat flowering, this shrub rose delivers a season-long display that feels lush, effortless, and undeniably elegant. Hardy, vigorous, and beautifully rounded, Royal Bonica® shines in borders, hedges, mass plantings, or as a standout landscape feature.
💐 Plant & Flower Traits
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🎨 Color: Deep rose-pink blooms with a refined, uniform tone
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🌸 Bloom Form: Semi-double to double, cupped flowers produced in large, showy clusters
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📏 Bloom Size: Approximately 2.5–3″ across
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🔁 Flowering: Exceptional repeat bloomer — flush after flush from late spring through frost
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🌼 Fragrance: Light, fresh scent
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🌿 Foliage: Abundant, glossy, dark green leaves that offer excellent contrast and stay clean through the season
🏡 Growth & Garden Habits
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🌱 Growth Habit: Bushy, rounded, and vigorous — ideal for landscape use
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↕️ Height: About 3–4 ft
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↔️ Width: Approximately 3 ft
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☀️ Light Requirements: Thrives in full sun
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🌡️ Hardiness: Extremely adaptable; reliable in a wide range of climates and conditions
🛡️ Health & Performance
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💪 Disease Resistance: Excellent — clean, healthy foliage with minimal intervention
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🌼 Best Uses:
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Foundation or border planting
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Mass planting for landscape impact
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Informal hedging
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Cottage and estate-style gardens
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Mixed shrub and perennial borders
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🌸 Maintenance Style: Very low maintenance — a perfect choice for gardeners seeking beauty with ease
💖 Why Grace Rose Farm Loves It
Royal Bonica™ is everything we adore in a landscape shrub rose—tough, generous, and effortlessly beautiful. Its deep pink blooms bring richer color than classic Bonica®, while its vigorous habit and non-stop clusters guarantee a season filled with soft, elegant color. It’s a rose that works hard yet looks refined in any setting.
🌿 Growing & Care Recommendations
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Planting Site: Full sun with well-draining soil
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Spacing: Plant 3 ft apart for full, lush coverage
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Watering: Maintain even moisture, especially while establishing
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Pruning: Light spring pruning to maintain shape; remove old wood as needed
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Encouraging Blooms: Deadheading optional — Royal Bonica™ reblooms beautifully even with minimal care
About Our Roses
- We are pleased to announce that our garden roses have achieved Carbon Neutral International Standard Certification from the United Nations Climate Change (UNFCCC). For more information, please read here.
- Furthermore, our ethically cultivated garden roses have received certification from Florverde Sustainable Flowers, recognizing our commitment to Social and Environmental Standard Practices. To learn more, please read here.
- Your roses are freshly cut to order by our passionate and skilled growers, who tend to each bloom with love and expertise. Each stem is processed with care and nestled in specially designed packaging that ensures their safe journey to you. To maintain the vitality and beauty of the roses, the thorns are intentionally left intact, adding a touch of natural elegance. Our farm takes pride in empowering women, with over half of our dedicated team being female. We invite you to explore our unwavering commitment to enhancing the overall well-being and success of our workers, as they bring the beauty of these roses to life. Read more here.
- For protection during transit, the roses are securely packaged in corrugated cardboard. Upon unwrapping, you can create your own floral arrangements.
- Please follow the care instructions for your garden roses here.
- We kindly ask that you allow two to four days for your roses to open from bud to bloom. For detailed information regarding bloom progression, please refer here.
- If these roses are intended for a specific event, we recommend selecting a delivery date approximately two to three days prior to the occasion to ensure that your roses will be in full bloom by the time of your celebration.
- Please note that vases are not included with the arrangements.
- Our garden roses are a gift from nature, and we make every effort to ensure that the right roses are blooming in time for your order. While we cannot guarantee that the exact colors depicted in the photographs will be available, we are dedicated to shipping the highest quality roses in colors that closely match those shown on our website. We assure you that your garden roses will be freshly harvested and beautiful, and we hope that you or your recipients will experience the joy infused into each bouquet.
- These roses are lovingly and sustainably grown by Alexandra Farms for Grace Rose Farm. To learn more about our commitment to sustainability, please visit our blog.
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