The Gallon size is really a 2 year old bare root on it’s own roots which will be available in Feb. 2023.
Order now to ship in spring.
The quart size is available now.
One of the top Shrub roses in the country. Very hardy, disease-resistant, prolific bloomer,
super fragrant, great cut flower, what more can one say? Was almost lost to the compost heap if not for Mike Shoupe rescuing it and making it famous.
We are, like all South Indians, inveterate coffee drinkers, and South Indian coffee is not drunk black, but with a good amount of milk, because the coffee decoction is very concentrated and bitter. So a cup of our coffee will be in shades of brown – lighter or darker according to preference.
This rose has a variety of shades of brown and chocolate, with creamy centers, and is fragrant, unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view) not of coffee, but of spice, but of a soft fragrance.
In South India, the coffee country area is in the state of Karnataka, in the district of Coorg, whose main city is Mercara. (that was the English name, now Indianised to ‘Madikeri’). Coorg and coffee are synonymous. So we decided to name this rose ‘Mercara’ for the Indian market. ‘Coorg’ has now been Indianised to ‘Kodagu’ and we felt that ‘Mercara’ sounded more euphonious.
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