MUIDEN™ – mid-pink bedding floribunda rose
Let MUIDEN™ bring softly glowing, mid-pink clusters to your cottage-style beds and Dublin front gardens with an easy-going, bushy habit that suits everyday family life and weekends. Bred in Denmark for garden performance, this floribunda offers remontant flowering, so you can enjoy several waves of bloom even when our summers feel short and grey, while its good disease resistance means less time spraying and more time admiring. On its own roots it settles in reliably, building a long-lived framework that copes well once established, giving you reassuring longevity and steady ornamental value. Plant once, then watch roots, stems and bloom display build naturally over three seasons as it moves from youth to confident maturity. Ideal for mixed borders, low hedges or generous pots, it creates a cheerful, feminine ambience in small spaces that need a romantic lift. Just give it decent drainage to manage our heavier Irish soils and enjoy its fresh, wild-rose fragrance on damp, still evenings.
Usage options
| Target area |
Reasoning |
| Front-garden edging in terraced streets |
The compact, bushy shape and 70–100 cm height make it ideal for framing paths without overwhelming narrow front gardens, while continuous clusters of mid-pink flowers add a welcoming, “girly” cottage touch with minimal shaping for beginners. |
| Cottage-style mixed flowerbeds |
Remontant flowering gives recurring flushes from early summer, weaving soft pink colour among perennials and herbs; with basic deadheading and feeding it keeps performing, supporting a relaxed, low-fuss planting plan for the typical hobby-gardener. |
| Low, informal flowering hedge |
The wide-spreading 75–110 cm habit and medium height allow evenly spaced plants at 55 cm centres to knit into a loose, flowering screen that remains attractive for years thanks to its own-root stamina, suiting the practical homeowner. |
| Feature rose in large containers |
In a 40–50 litre pot on a sunny terrace, its cluster-flowered, cup-shaped blooms and medium-green foliage create a long-season focal point; regular watering and a spring feed are usually enough for the time-pressed urbanite. |
| Family play-area borders |
Good resistance to powdery mildew and rust means cleaner foliage beside lawns and play spaces, while moderate prickliness and a manageable size help keep it user-friendly when children are nearby, reassuring the cautious parent. |
| Roses for heavy Irish garden soils |
Once planted into improved, free-draining soil and mulched, its own-root vigour gradually builds a resilient shrub that tolerates our wet spells and cool summers, with roots thriving in conditions familiar to many Irish-gardeners. |
| Scented seating and coffee corners |
The medium-strength, fresh wild-rose scent is noticeable without being overpowering, especially near a bench or doorway, where repeated flowering offers frequent fragrant moments that appeal to the nature-attuned fragrance-lover. |
| Easy-care long-term planting schemes |
This floribunda combines bushy form, reliable flowering and a hardy H7 rating, settling in over the first year and then building up shoots and finally full display by year three, matching the expectations of the patient planner. |
Styling ideas
- Cottage-Romantic Border – Mix with Achillea and foxgloves for a pastel, layered cottage feel, letting its repeat pink clusters soften boundaries – ideal for relaxed family gardeners.
- Dublin Doorstep Welcome – Line a short path with evenly spaced plants under clipped box for a neat yet feminine front-garden look – perfect for busy terraced-house owners.
- Terrace Feature Pot – Place one plant in a 50 litre clay pot with trailing thyme to enjoy scent and colour by the seating area – suited to balcony and patio dwellers.
- Soft-Hued Hedge – Create a low hedge along a drive, underplanting with Euonymus fortunei ‘Minimus’ for year-round structure and summer flower waves – for those planning long-term structure.
- Pollinator-Friendly Drift – Combine groups of this rose with nearby Echinacea and yarrow so insects work those while you enjoy the rose display – ideal for wildlife-conscious homeowners.
Technical cultivar profile
| Characteristic |
Data |
| Name and registration |
Floribunda shrub rose, collection Castle®, registered as POUlcas071, marketed as Muiden™ Castle® POUlcas071; commercial type mid-pink bedding floribunda for flowerbeds and general garden use. |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred in Denmark in 2021 by L. Pernille Olesen and Mogens Nyegaard Olesen for Poulsen Roser A/S, introduced 2025 as a compact garden floribunda suited to European private gardens. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Bushy, wide-spreading shrub 70–100 cm tall, 75–110 cm wide, with moderately dense, slightly glossy medium-green foliage (RHS 137A) and moderate prickliness, forming a broad, low-maintenance outline. |
| Flower morphology |
Double, cup-shaped clusters with 26–39 petals and medium 4–7 cm blooms; remontant habit delivers a generous second flush of flowers on branching stems, providing repeated garden colour. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Medium pink (RHS 62A–62B) blooms; vivid edges with paler centres, maturing to uniform mid-pink before gently fading towards pastel tones, with very good colour retention throughout the flowering phase. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Medium-strength fragrance with a fresh, wild-rose character; clearly noticeable at close quarters without being overpowering, particularly effective near seating or path edges in still, humid air. |
| Hip characteristics |
Hip set is generally sparse; any hips that form are small, typically under 6 mm diameter, so ornamental fruit effect is minimal and energy is directed mainly into flowering performance. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Rated hardy to about −21 to −18 °C (H7, USDA 6b); resistant to powdery mildew and rust, with moderate black spot resistance, and moderate tolerance of heat or short dry spells with regular watering. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Best in sunny, well-drained sites; spacing 65 cm in beds, 55 cm for hedges, 100 cm as specimen; 2.5–2.9 plants/m²; suitable for 40–50 litre containers, with moderate maintenance and occasional plant protection. |
MUIDEN™ combines long-season pink flowering, garden-tolerant disease resistance and reliable own-root longevity, making it a thoughtful choice for those planning a graceful, low-fuss rose feature.
