• Shiva

Orange-pink Shrub.
Registration name: KLUshiva
Exhibition name: Shiva

Bred by Johanna Kluxen (Germany, 2014).

Shrub.  

Coral-pink or orange-pink, geranium-red undertones, golden-yellow center, ages to salmon-pink .  Blossoms change colour due to temperature/climate/weather. In cooler climates they have a intense pink colour, in hot weather they are coral-red to orange-red..  Strong, fruity, raspberry, tangerine fragrance.  Average diameter 4.25".  Medium-large, very full (41+ petals), borne mostly solitary, in small clusters, button-eye, old-fashioned, quartered, reflexed bloom form.  Prolific, blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Medium, leafy sepals, decorative, ovoid, rounded buds.  

Medium, bushy.  Medium, semi-glossy, medium green foliage.  

Can be used for beds and borders, container rose, cut flower or garden.  Very hardy.  very vigorous.  benefits from winter protection in colder climates.  rain tolerant.  shade tolerant.  Remove spent blooms to encourage re-bloom.  Cut back one-half every year..  

"Shiva" is a sanskrit word with the meaning "propitious, gracious, auspicious".

"Shiva" (=The auspicious one) is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.

Seedlings of "Westerland x Broceliande" got sanskrit names.