True Bloom Roses® True Love™ Bare Root Rose Bush

About True Bloom Roses® True Love™ Bare Root Rose Bush

Rosa ‘ALTcaptain’ — True Love™ PP31,575
🧬 Breeder: Ping Lim / True Bloom Roses®
🌹 Rose Type: Compact Floribunda / Miniflora
❤️ Ninety-plus petals packed into rich crimson blooms on a compact little rose—True Love™ proves you don't have to be big to make a grand romantic gesture.

True Love™ may be small in stature, but there is absolutely nothing small about its flowers.

This compact True Bloom Roses® variety produces intensely colored crimson-red blooms packed with an extraordinary 90+ petals.

Yes.

More than 90 petals in one flower.

That high petal count creates incredibly dense, full blooms with an almost old-fashioned rosette appearance.

The flowers arrive in abundance against dark, glossy green foliage, creating a classic red-and-green combination that feels unmistakably romantic.

And at only about 2 feet tall and wide, True Love™ can fit almost anywhere.

💐 Plant & Flower Traits

🌹 Rose Type: Compact Floribunda / Miniflora
🎨 Color: Rich crimson red
🌸 Bloom Form: Extremely full, dense double flowers
🌼 Bloom Size: Approximately 1½–3 inches
🌼 Petal Count: 85–90+ petals
🌺 Fragrance: Little to no fragrance
💐 Flower Production: Exceptionally prolific, producing masses of flowers
🔁 Flowering Habit: Continual repeat flowering throughout the season
🌿 Foliage: Dark green and glossy
🛡️ Disease Resistance: Excellent

🏡 Growth & Garden Habits

🌱 Growth Habit: Dense, compact, upright and bushy
↕️ Height: Approximately 18–24 inches
↔️ Width: Approximately 20–24 inches
☀️ Light Requirements: Full sun — ideally 6+ hours daily
❄️ Hardiness: USDA Zones 4–9
🔥 Climate Performance: Bred for resilience through summer heat, humidity, drought conditions once established, and winter cold
🪴 Container Friendly: Excellent
🏡 Garden Use: Patio containers, front-of-border plantings, edging, mass plantings, small gardens, foundation beds, and specimen plantings

❤️ 90 Petals of True Love

This is what makes True Love™ so unusual.

The plant itself is petite.

But each little crimson flower can contain 85–90+ petals.

That creates an incredibly dense flower that looks much more like an old-fashioned garden rose than the simpler blooms often associated with compact landscape roses.

It's almost comical when you think about it.

A plant only about two feet tall producing flowers with ninety petals apiece.

True Love™ clearly believes in going big on romantic gestures.

🪴 A Rose Made for Small Spaces

You don't need an enormous rose garden to grow True Love™.

At approximately 18–24 inches tall, it's one of the most compact roses in the True Bloom® collection.

That opens up all sorts of possibilities.

Grow it in a decorative patio pot.

Plant it along the front of a rose border.

Use several as flowering edging.

Tuck one into a smaller courtyard garden.

Or mass several together to create a low sweep of crimson flowers.

Big rose beauty doesn't require a big garden.

🏆 Award-Winning Garden Performance

True Love™ isn't simply pretty.

It has been recognized for its garden performance, too.

True Love™ was selected as an A.R.T.S.® winner in 2022 through the American Rose Trials for Sustainability.

These trials are particularly interesting because roses are evaluated with sustainability in mind rather than being pampered through a traditional exhibition-style rose program.

The goal is to identify roses that combine beautiful flowers with the health and durability gardeners actually need in the landscape.

True Love™ delivered.

🌹 Bred by Ping Lim

True Love™ comes from renowned rose breeder Ping Lim and the True Bloom Roses® breeding program.

The philosophy behind True Bloom® is simple:

Gardeners shouldn't have to choose between beautiful traditional-looking flowers and modern garden performance.

True Love™ might be one of the clearest examples of that goal.

Its 90+ petal crimson flowers look lavish and romantic.

Its plant is compact, glossy, disease resistant, cold hardy, and designed to bloom repeatedly.

It's the old-fashioned look many rose lovers crave on a very modern little plant.

💛 Why Grace Rose Farm Loves It

True Love™ comes in a small package—and apparently brings 90 roses to the first date.

Okay, technically 90 petals.

But still.

We love the contrast between this plant's tiny stature and those ridiculously full flowers.

At only about two feet tall, True Love™ can tuck into the front of a rose garden or live happily in a beautiful patio container.

Then it covers itself in rich crimson-red flowers packed with 85–90+ petals.

And it keeps blooming.

Underneath all that romance is a tough little plant with glossy foliage, strong disease resistance, and cold hardiness into Zone 4.

So yes.

We think this one lives up to its name.

True Love™ may actually last.

🌿 Growing & Care Recommendations

Planting Site: Choose a location receiving at least 6 hours of direct sunlight each day with fertile, well-drained soil.

Spacing: Allow approximately 2 feet between plants when using True Love™ as edging or in a mass planting.

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

Pruning: Prune in early spring to remove dead or damaged growth and lightly shape the plant. Its naturally compact habit means extensive shaping shouldn't be necessary.

Container Growing: True Love™ is exceptionally well suited to containers. Choose a substantial pot with excellent drainage and remember that container-grown roses require more consistent watering than roses growing in the ground.

Front-of-Border Planting: Its 18–24-inch height makes True Love™ a fantastic lower layer in front of taller Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, or shrub roses.

Mass Planting: Plant several together and let those crimson flowers create a low carpet of color through the growing season.