About Proven Winners® Flavorette® Honey-Apricot Potted Rose Bush

Flavorette® Honey-Apricot Rosa x ‘Boznatafra’

🧬 Breeder: Pheno Geno Roses, Serbia
🌹 A deliciously fragrant edible rose with lush apricot blooms, romantic old-garden form, and exceptional garden performance.

Flavorette® Honey-Apricot is unlike any rose you’ve grown before—combining breathtaking garden beauty with edible petals that bring a soft honey-apricot flavor to desserts, salads, drinks, and culinary creations. Its large, richly petaled blooms open in glowing shades of creamy apricot, honey gold, and soft peach, creating an elegant cottage garden look all summer long.

Selected specifically for both flavor and landscape performance, this vigorous shrub produces continuous flushes of fragrant blooms on healthy dark green foliage. The flowers have a lush, romantic appearance reminiscent of English garden roses, while the plant itself offers impressive vigor, repeat flowering, and excellent disease resistance.

Whether planted beside an herb garden, trained onto a support, or featured as a focal point in the landscape, Flavorette® Honey-Apricot transforms the garden into something both beautiful and delicious. It’s a rose for gardeners, entertainers, bakers, floral designers, and anyone who believes flowers should delight all the senses.

💐 Plant & Flower Traits

🌹 Rose Type: Edible Shrub Rose
🎨 Color: Honey-apricot, soft peach, and creamy orange tones
🌸 Bloom Form: Large, full, old-fashioned rosettes
🌼 Bloom Size: Medium to large blooms
🌿 Fragrance: Sweet, fruity fragrance
🍯 Edible Petals: Yes — lightly sweet honey-apricot flavor
🔁 Flowering: Continuous blooms throughout summer

🌿 Growth & Garden Habits

📐 Mature Height: Approximately 5–8 ft
↔️ Mature Width: Approximately 3–4 ft
☀️ Sun Requirements: Full sun
🌱 Growth Habit: Vigorous upright shrub with lush branching
🪴 Ideal Uses: Herb gardens, cottage gardens, containers, borders, cutting gardens, edible landscapes, focal plantings

🌎 Hardiness & Garden Performance

❄️ USDA Zones: 4–8
💪 Disease Resistance: Excellent disease resistance
✂️ Deadheading Required: No
🌧️ Garden Style: Cottage gardens, edible gardens, romantic landscapes, cut flower gardens

✨ Why We Love It

Flavorette® Honey-Apricot feels like stepping into a storybook garden where every bloom is both beautiful and useful. Its romantic apricot flowers, sweet fragrance, and edible petals make it one of the most enchanting and conversation-worthy roses in the garden.