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Rosa 'Iceberg' (White Shrub Rose) - A popular shrub rose to 4 to 6+ feet tall that has double medium sized lightly fragrant white flowers held in large clusters that often have a blush of pink in flushes in spring and fall. The flowers open wide and then fall cleanly from the plant and appear typically spring to fall, but nearly year-round in mild climates. The plant itself is a strong shrub that is bushy and well branched with smooth slender stems and glossy rich green foliage.
Plant in full sun and irrigate occasionally to infrequently – surprisingly drought tolerant in coastal gardens and hardy to 0 to 10 degrees F. Though it can reach up to about 7 feet tall or be lightly pruned to maintain a 4 foot height. It is a very vigorous variety and is disease resistant.
'Iceberg' also known as 'Fée des Neiges' and 'Korbin is a repeat rebloming floribunda bred by Kordes in Germany and is the result of a cross between 'Robin Hood', a Pemberton bred hybrid musk (1927), and 'Virgo' a large flowered hybrid tea rose(1947). This rose has won many awards including the National Rose Society Gold Medal in 1958, the Baden-Baden Gold Medal in 1958, the ADR Anerkannte Deutsche Rose (Germany) in 1960, the World's Favorite Rose in 1983 and the Royal Horticulture Society Award of Garden Merit in 1993.
Information displayed on this page about Rosa 'Iceberg' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.
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