Royal Bonica® Bare Root Rose Bush
- 🚚 Bare Root Roses ship January through April — perfectly timed for your growing zone
- 🛡️ Complimentary One-Year Grow With Grace™ Guarantee
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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
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Bare Root Rose Season is Here!
Reserve the most beautiful, healthiest Better Bare Root™ roses for your garden. Shipping January through April, perfectly timed to your climate, each rose arrives ready to thrive. Discover the largest online selection of bare root roses, grown by America’s finest rose grower using sustainable farming practices and time-honored artistry—so every plant begins its journey with strength, beauty, and promise.
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WHAT MAKES A ROSE A BETTER BARE ROOT™?
Our bare root roses are carefully selected and prepared to give you the best start for your garden. Each rose is inspected for quality and health before shipping.
Whether you choose own root or budded roses, you'll receive premium plants that are ready to thrive in your garden.
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One-Year Grow With Grace™ Guarantee
At Grace Rose Farm®, we’re all about growing gorgeous gardens and happy hearts. That’s why we’ve got your back with our One-Year Grow With Grace™ Guarantee—because we know sometimes things just don’t go as planned in the garden. If your plant doesn’t make it within the first year, no worries—we’ll help make it right with a little store credit love 💗.