Pure snow-white base colour with a delicate, warm creamy touch at the centre of the bloom. - hybrid tea rose - strongly scented, long-lasting rose - tea, classic tea-rose scent
– Strong, long-lasting classic tea fragrance
– Elegant snow-white blooms with creamy hearts
– Healthy foliage with excellent disease resistance
– Compact, upright habit ideal for beds
– Perfect for refined, fragrant cut flowers
– Special feature: Rare Japanese Hybrid Tea combining exhibition form with garden reliability.
Personal taste – Harmony with the surroundings
darinaROSE® ORIGINAL 2-litre own-root potted rose
18,50 £
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SHIRABE – white tea-hybrid rose – Kunieda
With SHIRABE you introduce a quietly romanticcentrepiece to the garden: a hybrid tea rose whose pure white, silky blooms and strong tea fragrance immediately suggest afternoon tea beneath an arbour. Bred in Japan for harmonious balance and low-maintenance reliability, it settles well into typical British family plots, coping steadily even where gardens face brisk winds and frequent rain near the coast. Its upright habit and moderate height make it ideal beside a path, kitchen-garden fence or cottage-style border, where remontant flushes of bloom repeat through summer with little fuss. As an own-root rose it builds a durable underground framework that supports a long-lived shrub, easier to rejuvenate after harsher winters and kinder to busy gardeners who prefer enduring beauty over constant replacement or fuss. Establish SHIRABE once and enjoy years of grace, fragrance and gentle elegance around your home.
Shirabe in freshly opened bloom, with ivory petals and a soft creamy centre.
Shirabe showing very double, 40+ petalled white blooms with a soft creamy centre.
Closed bud of Shirabe, showing pale creamy-white petal tips beneath the greenish-white sepals.
Shirabe in full bloom, showing its pure white, very double flowers.
Usage options
Target area
Reasoning
Feature rose in a small front garden
The upright, moderately tall habit and dark green foliage give clear structure without overwhelming a small plot, while the pure white blooms read cleanly from the street and pair with any house colour; the own-root form means the plant can be kept for many years with light annual pruning, ideal for beginners.
Romantic focal point by a seating area
Strong, classic tea fragrance and repeat flowering make SHIRABE perfect beside a bench, pergola or terrace where you sit for afternoon tea; its ball-shaped, very double flowers feel luxurious yet the shrub remains compact enough not to crowd furniture, suiting relaxed homeowners.
Mixed cottage-style border with perennials
Snow-white flowers with a creamy heart blend effortlessly with echinacea, feverfew and bellflower, softening bolder tones while keeping the border bright; good disease resistance reduces spraying in busy family spaces, a welcome benefit for time-pressed families.
Cutting patch for home-arranged bouquets
As a hybrid tea with solitary, medium-sized blooms on upright stems, SHIRABE offers reliable cutting material for jugs and vases in the kitchen; the long-lasting, strongly scented flowers hold well indoors, rewarding those who enjoy arranging but prefer low-effort hobby-gardeners.
Specimen rose in a lawn or gravel circle
The harmonious, rounded outline and moderately dense foliage create a tidy, all-round view, while the white pompon blooms act as a calm focal point against grass or gravel; minimal deadheading and straightforward pruning suit practically minded urbanites.
Rose bed in exposed, rainy locations
Robust resistance to powdery mildew, black spot and rust supports healthy foliage even where damp, breezy weather would usually mar leaves, helping the plant keep its shape and flowering rhythm with little intervention, reassuring cautious buyers.
Low-maintenance traditional rose border
With moderate heat tolerance and a need only for regular watering in prolonged dry spells, SHIRABE fits traditional borders where irrigation is occasional rather than intensive; straightforward winter hardiness down to around -20 °C underpins dependable returns for many seasons for practical gardeners.
Large decorative container by the back door
Planted in a generously sized 40–50 litre pot with good drainage, the upright, medium-sized shrub gives vertical interest and perfumed blooms near entrances, while own-root resilience offers better recovery if containers dry or freeze, ideal for space-limited balcony-owners.
Styling ideas
Cottage-Classic – Combine SHIRABE with feverfew and clustered bellflower along a picket fence for a storybook white-and-lilac edging – for lovers of soft, romantic front gardens.
Kitchen-Table – Grow a small row in the cutting patch near herbs so you can pick fragrant stems for kitchen jugs – for home cooks who like fresh flowers indoors.
Moonlight – Underplant with silvery foliage and pale grasses so the white blooms glow at dusk – for evening sit-outers and terrace entertainers.
Harmony – Mix with soft pink and blush roses to create a gentle gradient of colour around a lawn seat – for those seeking a calm, coordinated family lawn edge.
Entranceway – Place one or two plants in large terracotta containers either side of the back door – for urban homeowners wanting a simple, fragrant welcome home.
Technical cultivar profile
Characteristic
Data
Name and registration
Hybrid tea rose marketed as SHIRABE – white tea-hybrid rose – Kunieda; current trade name Shirabe Hybrid tea rose Kunieda; part of the hybrid tea rose commercial group for garden and cutting use.
Origin and breeding
Bred by Kunieda Keiji at Rose Farm Keiji, Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan; parentage involves ‘Misaki (2007)’ bare-root; introduced in Japan in 2014 and selected for harmony and ornamental value.
Growth and structural characteristics
Upright hybrid tea shrub, approximately 95–125 cm tall and 70–90 cm wide, with moderately dense, dark green foliage and moderate prickliness; forms a tidy, vertical outline suitable for beds, borders and specimen planting.
Flower morphology
Very double, ball to pompon-shaped hybrid tea blooms with more than 40 petals; medium flower size around 4–7 cm, typically carried singly on stems; remontant habit with a generous second flush over the season.
Colour data and phenology
Pure white base colour with a warm creamy centre; buds show creamy tips under greenish-white sepals, opening ivory then lightening to homogeneous white, fading to opalescent powder white with the creamy tone gradually disappearing.
Fragrance and aroma
Strong, classic tea-rose fragrance that is long-lasting on the shrub and when cut; scent quality suits positioning near seating or paths where passing garden users can appreciate the perfume without bending.
Hip characteristics
Produces small numbers of spherical orange-red hips, around 8–12 mm in diameter; hips are decorative but sparse because the very double flowers set seed less readily than simpler single or semi-double varieties.
Resistance and winter hardiness
Good overall disease resistance, noted as resistant to powdery mildew, black spot and rust; winter hardy down to approximately -21 to -18 °C (RHS H7, Swedish Zone 3, USDA Zone 6b) with routine mulching in colder gardens.
Horticultural recommendations
Best in sunny positions with fertile, well-drained soil; recommended spacing 55 cm for mass plantings, 50 cm for hedges, 90 cm as solitary specimens; low maintenance with regular watering in extended drought and light annual pruning.
SHIRABE – white tea-hybrid rose – Kunieda offers fragrant repeat blooms, reliable health and a long-lived own-root shrub for easy, romantic planting; consider it if you prefer enduring charm over high-maintenance roses.
Detailed product attributes
Product Identification Data
Product Name:
SHIRABE – white tea-hybrid rose - Kunieda
Product Type:
darinaROSE® ORIGINAL - 2-litre own-root potted rose
Flower Colour Description:
Pure snow-white base colour with a delicate, warm creamy touch at the centre of the bloom.
Closed Bud:
Beneath the greenish-white outer sepals, pale creamy-white petal tips are visible.
Newly Opened Flower:
Ivory petals, softly enriched with a buttery hue towards the centre.
Full Bloom:
Homogeneous white bloom with a slightly creamy inner tint that shimmers with a silky sheen in the light.
Before Fading:
The petals fade to an opalescent powder-white, the creamy tone almost vanishing.
Colour Fading Description:
During opening the ivory-cream tone gradually lightens; at full bloom it is uniformly white, and prior to fading it becomes an opalescent powder white, the creamy centre almost disappearing.
Pollinator Attraction:
Double (26–39 petals) flowers have limited attractiveness to pollinators because the double form reduces access to the stamens.
Pollinator-Friendly Rating:
Double, 26–39-petalled flowers partially cover the stamens, so pollinator-friendliness is limited; primarily an ornamental variety.
Our product is a rose grown with pharmaROSA®’s unique cultivation technology!
2-litre, own-root, potted rose.
With a shoot system appropriate to the season.
With a root system that thoroughly permeates the growing medium.
Quality compliant with the requirements of the E.N.A. (European Nurserystock Association).
Supplied in unique packaging that prevents damage.
Can be planted during frost-free periods.
True-to-variety rose bush with a unique identifier.
The pharmaROSA® own-root potted rose is a well-rooted plant that supports reliable establishment when planted and cared for properly, so it can be planted whenever the soil is not frozen.
Crop overview: several varieties and growth stages in a short crop section.Shoot system: intensive growth of fresh basal shoots on a young plant.Root system: demonstration of a vigorous root system permeating the growing medium, by removing the pot.Balance: mature plant with root system and shoots in harmony with each other.
Information about the videos
The video series is not a “seasonal showcase”; it illustrates the essence of pharmaROSA® own-root cultivation in a tangible way: how the plant is built up, what the root system is like and how the shoot system regenerates. The recordings were therefore made at different times and with plants at various stages of development, so mixed foliage levels and differing stages of growth may appear in the videos. They are not a ‘sample’ of the batch dispatched, but a visual explanation of how the technology works. The current condition of the rose available to order — typical for the given period and similar to what you can expect to receive in the parcel — is shown in the upper part of the product page.
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Company details
PharmaRosa Ltd. Company registration number: 01-09-717479 VAT number: 13075314-2-43 Plant health registration no.: HU130721 Bank account (IBAN): HU85117631891388688400000000 BIC (SWIFT): OTPVHUHB Bank name: OTP Bank Nyrt.
