Easy Elegance® Coral Cove Bare Root Rose Bush

About Easy Elegance® Coral Cove Bare Root Rose Bush

Rosa ‘BAIove’ — Easy Elegance® Coral Cove
🧬 Breeder: Ping Lim / Easy Elegance® Roses
🌹 Rose Type: Shrub Rose
🪸 Dark pink, coral, orange and sunshine yellow collide in one incredibly colorful little rose.

Coral Cove is proof that a rose doesn't need to be enormous to completely steal the show.

This compact Easy Elegance® shrub produces an extraordinary combination of warm tropical colors.

Look closely at a flower and you'll see dark-pink outer petals transitioning through glowing coral and orange before reaching a brilliant yellow center.

The effect is almost luminous.

Each approximately 3-inch flower carries around 20 petals, giving it a lovely double form without hiding that beautiful golden center.

Even better?

It just keeps blooming.

Coral Cove is an everblooming shrub designed to produce color throughout the growing season on a compact, rounded plant with excellent disease resistance.

💐 Plant & Flower Traits

🌹 Rose Type: Shrub Rose
🎨 Color: Dark pink outer petals blending through coral and orange to a bright-yellow center
🌸 Bloom Form: Double
🌼 Bloom Size: Approximately 3 inches
🌼 Petal Count: Approximately 20 petals
🌺 Fragrance: Not considered a primary fragrance rose
🔁 Flowering Habit: Everblooming throughout the season
🌿 Foliage: Dark green
🛡️ Disease Resistance: Excellent
✂️ Cut Flower: Good for cutting

🏡 Growth & Garden Habits

🌱 Growth Habit: Compact, dense and beautifully mounded
↕️ Height: Approximately 2–3½ feet
↔️ Width: Approximately 2–4½ feet
☀️ Light Requirements: Full sun
❄️ Hardiness: USDA Zones 4–9
🔥 AHS Heat Zone: 8
💧 Water Needs: Moderate
🪴 Garden Use: Front-of-border plantings, informal hedges, walkways, perennial borders, mass plantings and smaller gardens

🪸 Welcome to Coral Cove

The name couldn't be more fitting.

These flowers look like they belong somewhere tropical.

The outer petals begin dark pink.

Move toward the center and the color warms into coral and orange.

Then suddenly—

bright yellow.

It's like watching a tropical sunset compressed into a three-inch rose.

And because the plant continually produces flowers, you'll see slightly different combinations of those colors across the shrub.

Some blooms lean pink.

Some feel more orange.

Others seem to glow from their yellow centers.

Together, they're spectacular.

🌅 One Flower, an Entire Sunset

Coral Cove is especially beautiful because the color doesn't feel flat.

That transition from dark pink through orange to yellow creates depth within every flower.

From a distance, the shrub reads as a warm coral-orange.

Get closer and suddenly there are layers.

Pink.

Coral.

Orange.

Yellow.

It's one of those roses that deserves to be planted somewhere you'll actually walk past it.

Because the closer you look, the better it gets.

🌿 Made for the Front of the Border

Coral Cove's naturally compact, rounded habit makes it incredibly useful in the landscape.

Instead of hiding it behind larger roses, put this one right up front.

Plant it along a walkway.

Edge a rose garden with it.

Mix it among flowering perennials.

Or plant several together as a colorful informal low hedge.

Its warm coloring also makes it surprisingly easy to combine with companion plants.

Try it with:

Lavender.

Catmint.

Blue salvia.

Purple verbena.

Creamy white flowers.

Soft ornamental grasses.

Or silvery foliage.

Those cool colors make Coral Cove's warm pink-orange-yellow flowers absolutely glow.

🏆 2014 Best Shrub Rose

Coral Cove has more than pretty color going for it.

It was named:

2014 Best Shrub Rose by the Portland Rose Society

That's a lovely distinction for a rose bred around practical garden performance.

Because underneath those tropical-looking flowers is a plant selected for exactly what many gardeners want:

Compact growth.

Excellent disease resistance.

Cold hardiness.

Repeat flowering.

And lots and lots of color.

🧬 Bred by Ping Lim

Coral Cove was bred by renowned rose hybridizer Ping Lim, whose breeding work has focused heavily on combining beautiful flowers with healthier, more adaptable plants.

That philosophy became central to the Easy Elegance® collection.

These roses were developed to give gardeners the beauty they associate with traditional roses while improving the characteristics that matter in an everyday landscape:

Disease resistance.

Winter hardiness.

Repeat flowering.

Attractive plant habits.

And easier maintenance.

Coral Cove wraps all of that performance in one particularly colorful package.

🌹 The Easy Elegance® Difference

Easy Elegance® describes its roses as:

“Roses You Can Grow.”

And that's really the point.

The collection was bred to make beautiful roses accessible to gardeners who don't want their rose garden to become a second job.

Coral Cove fits that philosophy beautifully.

It's hardy through Zone 4.

It has excellent disease resistance.

It flowers repeatedly.

And its naturally compact, mounded shape makes it easy to incorporate into an existing landscape.

💛 Why Grace Rose Farm Loves It

Coral Cove looks like somebody planted a sunset.

Pink on the outside.

Coral and orange through the middle.

And bright sunshine yellow right at the heart of every flower.

We love the color.

But we may love the plant underneath it even more.

It's compact.

It's everblooming.

It's exceptionally disease resistant.

And it's hardy all the way through Zone 4.

That makes Coral Cove the kind of rose you can plant along a walkway or at the front of the garden and simply let it do its thing.

And apparently its thing is:

Bloom. Glow. Repeat.

🌿 Growing & Care Recommendations

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

Soil: Plant in fertile, well-drained soil and avoid locations where water remains around the roots.

Spacing: Depending on the desired effect, allow approximately 2½–4 feet between plants.

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

Pruning: Prune in early spring, removing dead or damaged stems and shaping the plant as needed.

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

Informal Hedge: Plant Coral Cove in a repeating row along a walkway or garden path to take advantage of its compact, rounded habit.

Perennial Border: Its warm coral coloring is especially striking beside blue, lavender, purple and silver companion plants.