# Information on Chuckles Roses
"Chuckles," a hybrid shrub rose, bears heavy loads of deep pink single blossoms with yellow eyes and white centers. As a shrub, Chuckles does well in mass plantings or hedgerows, producing large clusters of flowers that bloom repeatedly throughout the summer. Though a relatively high-maintenance rose, requiring regular care, Chuckles is hardy up to zone 4a and in the right climate makes a colorful addition to your flower garden.
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Description
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The Chuckles rose is a multistemmed deciduous shrub with dark green, leathery, ovoid compound leaves that turn yellow and drop off in the fall. The flowers grow in clusters on the tips of the stems. The flowers are semi-double blossoms with five to 15 petals per flower. They produce small red rose-hip fruits and bloom repeatedly throughout the season. The bushes grow about 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide, thick all the way to the ground and covered with spiny thorns.
Features
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Because the flowers grow at tips of clustered canes, they are excellent for cutting and display. Its profuse and closely packed blossoms and dense foliage make this type of shrub rose perfect for creating a large homogeneous mass of greenery and flowers in your garden space. The flowers bloom repeatedly from June to September, providing a reliable display of pink color throughout the summer. Properly cared for, the plants themselves should last up to 20 years.
Landscape Uses
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Spaced 2 feet apart, Chuckles roses grow quickly. The plant grows wide enough that its branches will overlap those of its neighbors in short order, a characteristic that makes the plants ideal for thick screening foliage or crisp, dense hedges. Landscapers like the Chuckles rose for creating large, dense patches of long-lasting color. The plants have a rounded form and medium texture that blends with fine or coarse plant textures. They can create stable dividers, backgrounds for show plants and borders for spaces.
Care
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Like all shrub roses, the Chuckles variety grows best in full sun and well-drained soil, but does tolerate partial shade. It tolerates urban pollution well and a wide variety of alkaline and acidic soils. Avoid allowing pools of standing water above the root systems. Prune in the late winter after the threat of extreme cold has passed. Rosa Chuckles is vulnerable to a variety of common rose diseases. Be sure to consult your local agricultural extension service about local issues with roses and ask the master gardeners there for suggestions for a spraying program or other techniques for preventing insect infestations, fungi and other plant diseases.
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