Mini-flora rose (Rosa 'Savanight' OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION)
Discover the Mini-flora rose, Rosa 'Savanight' OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION, featuring fragrant, showy medium pink blooms from May to frost in zones 5-9.
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Complete Plant Information
Overview
Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION, a vibrant Mini-flora rose, offers gardeners the classic beauty of roses in a compact, adaptable size. This cultivar stands out due to its prominently fragrant blooms, a trait highly valued in smaller garden spaces where scent can be easily appreciated. Mature plants typically reach an easily manageable height between one and three feet, making them ideal for defined borders and containers.
As a dependable bloomer, the Mini-flora rose rewards attention with medium pink flowers appearing consistently from late spring until the first hard frost descends. While categorized as maintenance level medium, the robust nature of Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION, combined with good cultural practices, ensures season-long performance. Gardeners can enjoy this smaller rose in rock gardens or along walkways where its showy, fragrant display can be up close.
This specific introduction, Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION, is also noteworthy for historical context, having even traveled to space to evaluate growth in micro-gravity. For those seeking reliable, scented blooms without the towering size of hybrid teas, this introduction to the Mini-flora rose class offers excellent value and visual appeal throughout the growing season.
Fast Facts
- Plant Family: Rosaceae
- Plant Type: Deciduous shrub
- Hardiness Zones: USDA Zones 5-9
- Size at Maturity:
- Height: 1-3 ft
- Spread: 1-2 ft
- Bloom Time: May to frost
- Bloom Description: Medium pink
- Sun Exposure: Full sun
- Water Needs: Medium
- Maintenance Level: Medium
How to Grow
The best environment for Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION requires organically rich, well-drained loam with a medium moisture content. Plant this Mini-flora rose where it receives full sun for optimal flowering and best disease resistance, though it can reportedly tolerate light shade. Spring or fall is the preferred time for planting, ensuring the plant has time to establish a strong root system before extreme weather.
Watering should be deep and thorough, preferably carried out in the mornings to allow foliage to dry before evening. Avoid overhead watering strategies, as good air circulation is key to preventing common foliar diseases. Applying a summer mulch will help the roots stay cool, conserve necessary moisture, and suppress competing weeds around the base of the Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION.
Deadheading, or removing spent blooms, is important to continually encourage repeat flowering throughout the extended bloom season. In colder limits of its range (Zone 5), crowns benefit significantly from protective winter wrapping. Pruning should be performed in late winter or early spring; focus on removing dead tips, dead growth, and previous year’s spent laterals, deliberately avoiding shortening the main canes.
Landscape Uses
The compact stature of this Mini-flora rose makes Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION exceptionally versatile for smaller garden applications. It excels when used as an edging plant, creating a low, colorful seam along pathways or garden beds where its medium pink blooms are easily visible. They are perfect for filling voids in rock gardens, providing persistent seasonal color against stone textures.
These smaller roses thrive brilliantly in containers, allowing gardeners without suitable in-ground space to enjoy the intensity of the bloom and the fragrance. Consider planting them near seating areas or entryways to maximize appreciation of the scent associated with the OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION variety. Their dense, bushy habit also makes them suitable for planting in the front rows of mixed shrub borders.
Standout Features
Flower Qualities
- Showy
- Fragrant
Noteworthy Characteristics
Rosa is a genus of about 150 species of deciduous (occasionally evergreen) shrubs and climbers noted for their beautiful, often fragrant, single, semidouble or double flowers which are borne singly or in clusters on often prickly stems clad with 5-9 leaflets often having toothed margins. Miniature roses look very much like shrubby, dwarf versions of floribunda or hybrid tea roses. OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION is a larger miniature rose that will typically mature to 24-36” tall and is distinguished by the strong fragrance carried on its medium pink blooms and its generally low thorn count.
Tolerances
Potential Problems
Roses, in general, face susceptibility to diseases like black spot, powdery mildew, and rust, especially in humid environments requiring preventative fungicide applications. Gardeners must also monitor for issues like rose rosette. While general rose care involves vigilance against aphids, beetles, and mites, the Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION variety reportedly possesses good inherent resistance to the most common foliar diseases, which slightly reduces management intensity. Aggressive action, involving removal and destruction of diseased material during the growing and dormant seasons, is crucial for overall plant health.
Frequently Asked Questions
What hardiness zones is Mini-flora rose suitable for?
This Mini-flora rose is hardy across USDA Zones 5 through 9, offering flexibility for many regions.
How large does Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION grow?
It is a compact plant, typically reaching a mature height between 1 and 3 feet, with a spread of 1 to 2 feet.
What sun exposure does Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION need?
For the best flowering display, this rose requires full sun exposure, though it can tolerate slightly less light.
When does Mini-flora rose bloom?
Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION blooms generously across two seasons, starting in May and continuing until the first frost, producing medium pink flowers.
Conclusion
The Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION stands out as a premium choice within the Mini-flora rose category, prized specifically for its powerful fragrance combined with reliable, season-long performance. Offering manageable size, showy medium pink blooms, and moderate maintenance needs, this rose brings classic beauty to modern, smaller landscapes. Before planting, confirm your site falls within USDA Zones 5-9 and ensure it receives the necessary full sun for spectacular results.
Companion Planting Ideas
When placing Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION in garden beds, select companions that appreciate similar full sun and medium moisture needs while complementing its medium pink color. Lower-growing, drought-tolerant perennials like varieties of Creeping Thyme or Lavender (particularly English varieties known for their resilience) make excellent front-of-border choices. These companions will not compete heavily with the established roots of your Mini-flora rose and often require similar pruning schedules in the late winter.
Consider using plants with varied foliage texture to emphasize the delicate nature of the rose blooms. Fine-textured, silver-leaved plants such as Lamb’s Ears (Stachys byzantina) or dusty miller provide a pleasing contrast to the matte green leaves of the Rosa ‘Savanight’ OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION. Ensure adequate spacing is maintained, respecting the need for good air circulation around the rose to minimize humidity levels, which is vital for disease prevention.
Seasonal Care Calendar
Spring preparation should begin as the threat of hard frost passes; this is the time for your annual pruning, focusing only on removing dead wood—do not shorten healthy canes. As the season warms, apply a slow-release fertilizer formulated for roses, followed by a fresh layer of mulch to regulate soil temperature and moisture. Summer maintenance centers on consistent watering deep into the root zone and promptly removing spent flowers to spur continuous blooming of the OVERNIGHT SCENTSATION variety.
Autumn care for this Mini-flora rose involves maintaining watering schedules until dormancy sets in, while also being diligent about cleaning up any fallen leaves to deny overwintering fungal spores a foothold. In Zone 5, provide winter protection for the base (crown) of the plant after the ground freezes, typically by mounding soil or compost around the lower canes. A final thorough clean-up of debris around the base prevents disease carry-over into the next growing cycle.
