This rose is a proven All-Star!  Home Run is absolutely, positively, the best true-red rose with continuous blooms and top level disease resistance to both black spot and powdery mildew. Plus it’s heat tolerant, cold hardy and requires not deadheading!

Parentage: (City of San Francisco x Baby Love) x cv. RADrazz 

Hardiness:  USDA Zone 4

Bloom Time:  Continuous,  Early-Summer to Frost

Bloom Color:  True red with golden stamen

Foliage Color:  Glossy green

Size:  3.4-4 feet

Exposure:  Full sun

Soil:  Moist well-drained, loose soil. 

Pruning: Prune in early spring, remove small weak branches, cut back to strong, greenish-white wood, prune to shape. Do not dead-head as new bloom come from right under the old flowers.

Breeder: Tom Carruth of Weeks Roses.

What people are saying:

Home Rose are fool proof shrubs with top level disease resistance. Better mildew resistance than Knock Out. They are always in bloom from June unit frost. Plant it and go!

Here in hot and humid Alabama, HOME RUN has been a real star.  We had bright and cheerful blooms for eight months, and the foliage was lush and disease free without spray. What more can we ask of a rose?

Dr. Mike and Paula Rushing, Ragland, AL

Home Run is an absolutely wonderful landscape rose. It is winter hardy and has no disease problems in our garden.

Home Run blooms generously almost continuously throughout the season has an appealing growth habit. I strongly recommend Home Run on it's merits as a fine rose, and in addition, as a suburb trouble free shrub, ... which can and will deserve it's place in virtually any garden.

Anne O'Neill, Rose Curator, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NY

Available: Currently available at better garden centers. Garden Centers can book finished plants from a Proven Winner ColorChoice Gold Key Grower. 

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