Double Red Knockout Rose
Rosa ‘Radtko’
Plant Details
USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone >
Plant Type: Modern Shrub Rose
Height at Maturity: 4-5′
Width at Maturity: 4-5′
Spacing: 4′ apart for solid hedges; 8’+ apart for space between plants
Spacing: 4′ apart for solid hedges; 8’+ apart for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Bushy, Dense, Rounded, Mounding
Growth Rate: Fast
Flower Color: Red
Flower Size: 3-4″
Flowering Period: Spring to Frost!
Flower Type: Double
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Dark Green, deep red new growth
Fragrant Foliage: No
Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade
Water Needs: Average, low when established
Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Drainage: Well drained
Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.0
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Disease, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity
Description
The easiest rose you’ll ever grow, and the most floriferous! In our gardens, the Double Red Knock Out Rose blooms more that any rose in the Knock Out Family – heck, of any rose period! From March to frost it’s almost always in bloom. The bright red double flowers are produced in abundance and look much like a classic rose. It is just as disease resistant as the famous Original Knock Out Rose and is slightly more cold hardy. If you have no other Knock Out Rose in your garden plant this one!
We have yet to find any other roses that are as consistently disease free as those in the family of Knock Out Roses. Every year, folks send us new roses to try that are touted to be “care free” or “disease free” but, in our gardens, none have come close to rivaling the Knock Out Roses when it comes to disease resistance. So, if you want truly disease-free and low maintenance roses, the Knock Out Roses are your rose!
Knock Out Roses have stunning flower power with a generous bloom cycle (about every 5 weeks) that starts in spring and continues to beyond frost. All of the Knock Out roses are self cleaning so there’s no need to deadhead, unless you want to.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 4 to 5 feet tall and wide, the Red Double Knock Out Rose is ideal for use as a specimen, in groupings or as a colorful hedge in landscape and flowering shrub borders and home foundation plantings. This rose is so reliable and attractive throughout the season we have no problem suggesting it for use in home foundation plantings. A fine addition to rose gardens, cottage gardens and red theme color gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 4 feet apart for hedges; 8 feet apart for space between plants
Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Knock Out Rose variety is not winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Preferences
Double Red Knock Out Rose is the easiest rose you’ll ever grow.
Knock Out Roses are exceptionally easy to grow in average, moist but well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. As with all other roses, to avoid powdery mildew on the leaves, morning sun is a must to dry dew from the leaves. Afternoon shade or filtered sun is fine. We suggest 6 hours of direct sun light for best flowering.
Maintenance is minimal. Knock Out Roses do not require pruning, however, they do benefit from it. To keep your Knock Out Rose full and bushy from year to year prune the branches back to about 15-18 inches above the ground in late winter or early spring. After this hard pruning, your Knock Roses will quickly flush out and start blooming with the arrival of warmer spring temperatures. Deadheading spent flowers through the season is not necessary however will encourage new buds and flowers.
Helpful Articles
Click on the link below to find helpful advice for how to plant and care for Knock Out Roses.
How To Plant, Prune, Fertilize & Water Knock Out Rose Bushes
Plant Long & Prosper!
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Wonderful rose, I received it healthy in August and it gave flowers very soon after, Since then it makes me happy with new flowers,
I am so impressed with this knock out rose I probably buy all varieties of colors knock out roses. It is healthy not even larvaes dont bother it where other types of roses in my garden are chomped by these green little worms.
I love this healthy, robust, no fuss many flowers rose.———————————————–Thanks for the kind words and wonderful review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I am so impressed with this knock out rose I probably buy all varieties of colors knock out roses. It is healthy not even larvaes dont bother it where other types of roses in my garden are chomped by these green little worms.
I love this healthy, robust, no fuss many flowers rose.———————————————–Thanks for the kind words and wonderful review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
My double knock out rose bush arrived in a timely matter. A bit smushed in the box but not damaged. I have a bunch of knock out roses so I knew it would be robust in no time. Wilson Bros is a great company to buy plants online…———————————————————-So sorry it was smushed, but glad it is okay. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
The plants look healthy. it will be a while until they bloom.———————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
Excellent———————————————-We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the kind words and great review! Beth | WBG 🙂
I bought this intending a container plant, and based on how healthy and happy it is, my only concern is potentially having to swap for a larger container or plant in the ground! The plant arrived well packaged and healthy – and upon planting, has already grown with plentiful new growth – I can’t wait for first bloom!——————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
I recently received the knockout red rose plant. It came healthy as a barefoot plant. I planted it and now await the growth that is beginning.—————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG
The plant took awhile to get here; but it looks great. Plant is healthier looking than some roses I got from my local nursery. Thanks.—————————————-We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG 🙂
Ordered late in the season, but it arrived quickly and in very good shape. Had new growth and buds within a few weeks… having a mild fall so it may bloom before any hard freezes…. Waiting for next spring when it will have a full growing season to grow and bloom…—————————–We are so glad you are pleased with your purchase! Thanks for the great review! Beth | WBG 🙂
Beautiful rose bush. Look forward to buying more in future.——————————————We are so happy you are pleased with your purchase! Beth | WBG 🙂
This was my first order and I was 100% satisfied. I am totally happy with customer service, their web site, shipping and the way my rose was packaged. And she, my rose, was healthy and happy when she arrived. I will definitely order again from Wilson Brothers!! ———————– WBG Reply: Hi Lisa – Thanks so much for your review of the Red Double Knock Out Rose and for the compliments! It’s my personal favorite of the Knock Outs and we hope you enjoy this beautiful rose for many years to come. Let us know if there’s ever a anything else we can help you with. We’re at your service! – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens
Every plant always comes packed securely and looks great. Every plant I have ordered has lived and looks beautiful. ——– WBG Reply: Hi Terry – Thanks for taking the time to provide your review and compliments and for appreciating the extent we go to to safely ship our high-quality plants. Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help you with, We’re at your service! – Brent Wilson | Wilson Bros Gardens
Love to order plants from these guys…always arrive in great shape and quickly. Planted the Double Knock Out and it seems to be taking off and doing great. I have never been disappointed with a plant from Wilson Bros. ——- WBG Reply: Hi William – Thanks so much for taking the time to provide us and future visitors to Wilson Bros Gardens with your review. Now that you know our high standards, make sure to also let us know if there’s ever a problem. The Double Red Knock Out Rose is my favorite of any low-maintenance landscape rose. It blooms more continuously throughout the season than any other in my landscape. Absolutely no disease. Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help you with. Plant long and prosper! – Brent Wilson | Wilson Bros Gardens
Roses were delivered with blooms and 2 weeks after planting, the number of blooms have doubled – in Pennsylvania at the end of October
I had no idea there was a double version of the Knock Out. After reading how it bloomed more than the other one I had to get one. It was planted in the spring and had blooms on and off during summer and is now blooming heavy again. Plan on buying a few more to fill other spots.
I was so suprised when I opened the box to see such a large full healthy plant.





















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