Tuscan Sun is a modern Floribunda rose with large flowers that are carried in small clusters. It has deep apricot buds that open to stunning high-centred blooms of hybrid tea form. They are bronze/orange/apricot in the centre with coppery pink outer petals. They finish a coppery pink. The blooms are 10 cm wide, have 25 petals and are borne on long, strong stems which makes them perfect for the vase. As a bonus, they last well as a cut flower.
The bush has an upright, well-branched habit with deep green foliage. My bush is rather sparse and, though reportedly disease resistant, it is one of the few plants in my garden with black spot at the moment. The weather has been quite mild and moist for this time of the year which may account for it. Tuscan Sun is particularly suited to dry hot climates. It flowers well throughout our hot summer. It also, reportedly, takes humidity well.
Tuscan Sun was raised in the USA and released in Australia by Swane’s Nursery.
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I love the colors in that one. Did you happen to see the movie Under the Tuscan Sun? One of my favorites.
Diane, funny you should mention it. We watched it on DVD years ago and I instantly decided to go to Italy.
I guess that movie had quite an impact on us because I couldn’t get to Italy right after watching the movie but we’d just come off one of the worst, snowiest, coldest winters ever & I said ‘screw this’, packed up my bags & just started driving south all by myself until I ended up in North Carolina (eastern coast, south of my state, almost down to Florida).
So Diane, you went to North Carolina – I went to Tuscany.. mmmmm 🙂
Believe me, although the beaches of a North Carolina are gorgeous, I’d take Tuscany any day.
You’ve shared another beauty with us, Glenda. What a gorgeous mix of colors! Last year’s Winter cost me a few bushes, though the Iceberg survived and thrived this past Summer. Every one of the others that survived had to be trimmed of all of their canes because not a one bore leaves, After such a pathetic start, I was surprised that I only lost 3 roses, though I think I may lose a couple weak ones this Winter. It looks like I’ll be going rose shopping in a few months.
John, if your burgundy iceberg did well you should consider buying iceberg and the other sports. I have seen them in a garden mass planted and they looked fab. Each had the same growing habit and the colour of the flowers combined well. The only problem is a lack of fragrance.
Glenda, it’s absolutely stunning! It makes me crave a Tequila Sunrise! 😉
Go for it Celia.
Absolutely beautiful rose, and what a lovely, appropriate name, Tuscan Sun, regards, Lyn xx
Thanks Lyn. It is a beauty, though they are all beautiful in different ways.