Tequila® Supreme Bare Root Rose Bush

About Tequila Supreme™ Bare-Root Rose Bush

Rosa ‘MEIkokan’ — Tequila Supreme™
🌹 A vibrant Floribunda / landscape shrub from Meilland

Tequila Supreme™ is a warm, glowing landscape rose prized for its expressive blooms, coppery tones, and incredible garden resilience. With scalloped medium-double flowers in a radiant copper-orange to ochre palette, this rose brings bright, lasting color from spring all the way to frost. Designed to thrive even in tough, hot conditions, Tequila Supreme™ is a standout for gardeners wanting dependable beauty with bold personality.

💐 Plant & Flower Traits

• 🎨 Color: Copper-orange to ochre with a warm, sunlit glow

• 🌸 Bloom Form: Medium-double blooms with about 25 scalloped petals

• 📏 Bloom Size: Approximately 3–3.5″ — generously sized for a shrub rose

• 🔁 Flowering: Nearly continuous from spring through fall

• 🌼 Fragrance: Very slight

• 🌿 Foliage: Glossy bright-green leaves that add fresh contrast to the warm bloom tones

🏡 Growth & Garden Habits

• 🌱 Growth Habit: Bushy landscape shrub with a balanced, mounded shape

• ↕️ Height: About 4½ ft tall

• ↔️ Width: Approximately 4 ft wide

• ☀️ Light Requirements: Full sun for richest color and strongest bloom cycles

• 🌡️ Hardiness: USDA Zones 5–10 — reliable across a wide range of climates

💪 Health & Performance

• 💚 Disease Resistance: Above-average — maintains healthy foliage with minimal care

• 🔥 Heat Tolerance: Holds color and continues blooming even in hot, humid summers

• 🌼 Best Uses:

  • Landscape borders

  • Rose hedges

  • Mixed shrub plantings

  • Color anchors in perennial beds

  • Mass plantings for seasonal impact

🌟 Why Fast Growing Plant Loves It

Tequila Supreme™ delivers warmth, richness, and resilience in every bloom. Its coppery tones glow beautifully in morning and late-day light, and its strong, mounded form makes it perfect for creating colorful, low-maintenance garden structure. This is a rose that works hard, blooms often, and brings undeniable vibrancy to any landscape.

🌿 Growing & Care Recommendations

• Site: Plant in full sun with well-draining, fertile soil

• Spacing: Allow 3–4 ft for mature spread and airflow

• Watering: Keep evenly moist while establishing; moderate watering thereafter

• Pruning: Light spring pruning to shape and remove old wood

• Maintenance: Deadheading encourages fresh blooms but is not strictly required