5 shrub roses with white flowers

The 'Nevada' rose, a rustic and graceful charm

The shrub rose ‘Nevada’ adds an elegant and rustic touch to your garden or balcony, with its bushy silhouette reaching up to 1.5 metres and spreading 2 metres wide. It thrives in both sunny and semi-shaded areas, offering numerous and dense single white rose bouquets of 4 cm from June to August. Charming, they consist of cream-white petals edged with rosy reflections at their tips, revealing a heart of golden stamens. The ‘Nevada’ rose stands out for its graceful, slightly trailing habit. To maintain the elegance of its branches, simply prune the dead branches regularly. To highlight its bright white colour, pair it with blue, mauve, or white scabious. It also looks stunning alongside astrantias showcasing their refined shapes in pale pink, carmine, or white.

Rose ‘Nevada’ (photo A. Barra)

The rose 'Rosanatura Alba', a bohemian and fragrant touch

The rose ‘Rosanatura Alba’ adds a bohemian and natural touch, both in a garden and on a terrace. Highly floriferous and repeat flowering, it produces a multitude of small, simple white flowers grouped in lovely panicles from June to September. The small dog roses, measuring 3 to 4 cm, are adorned with a heart of yellow stamens and emit a light, pleasantly sweet floral fragrance. It forms an upright bush 1.20 m high and 1 m wide, with glossy green foliage on thorny branches. In autumn, it is covered in fleshy, reddish fruits. Very decorative, the rose ‘Rosanatura Alba’ is also vigorous, easy to grow, and requires little care. It adapts to all types of soil but prefers full sun exposure. The rose ‘Rosanatura Alba’ is part of a collection of recent wild-looking roses developed by Verdia and its partner Globe Planter. Grown in France, this collection of landscape roses consists of floriferous and repeat flowering varieties that are fragrant, show very good disease resistance, and require little water.

The 'Iceberg' rose, a brilliant whiteness

The clustered rose ‘Iceberg’ is also known as ‘Fée des neiges’. With its bright white colour, it truly lives up to its name. Its 8 cm flowers are full and bloom into stunning bouquets from June to October. They are sometimes tinged with pink. Fragrant, they are also lovely in cut flower arrangements. The ‘Iceberg’ rose grows into a bush reaching 1.30 metres in height and 1 metre in spread, with a charming irregular bushy habit. Plant it in your garden in full sun or in a partially shaded spot. Vigorous and resilient, it has been awarded the prestigious ADR label and will brighten your garden with its delightful whiteness. You can play with colour contrasts by planting, for example, red roses alongside it, such as the large-flowered rose ‘Astrid Gräfin von Hardenberg’.

Rose ‘Iceberg’

The 'Savanorova White' rose, with crumpled and fragrant blooms.

The ‘Savanorova White’ rose is a hybrid of the rugosa rose, a wild and vigorous species, from which it inherits its lovely crumpled foliage that is resistant to diseases, as well as its large, fleshy red fruits. This charming little bush, 60 cm wide, reaches a height of 70 cm and can be grown both in a garden and in a pot on your balcony. Repeat flowering, it produces semi-double, crumpled white roses for several months, from June to October. They open to reveal a yellow centre composed of stamens and exude a subtle scent of wild rose. Measuring 5 to 6 cm in diameter, they have a lovely silky appearance. The ‘Savanorova’ rose has received the ADR label, a testament to its great robustness and disease resistance. It can be planted in partial shade or full sun and requires little care, apart from pruning it into a ball in March and keeping the soil moist during the flowering period. It looks very attractive in a small hedge alongside small flowering or fruiting bushes, such as buddleia, raspberry, or dwarf blueberry.

‘Savanorova White’ rose

The rose 'Martine Guillot', an intense fragrance

The Generosa rose ‘Martine Guillot’ captivates with its abundant flowering, which lasts from May until the first frosts. It is adorned with clusters of full, double roses in a subtle blush white, tinged with cream at the heart. Its roses offer an intense fragrance, blending notes of rose, lilac, violet, and gardenia. To enjoy their beauty and scent, you can create cut flower arrangements to decorate your home. The foliage of the ‘Martine Guillot’ rose is glossy, healthy, and deciduous. Robust and very hardy, the ‘Martine Guillot’ rose can be grown, depending on the pruning you carry out, as a bush in a border or as a climbing rose that can reach a height of 2.5 metres at ripeness. To benefit from all its qualities, plant it in full sun.

‘Martine Guillot’ rose