7 bush roses with large white flowers
Roses to brighten your garden
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Great classics of our gardens, bush roses are distinguished by their large and elegant flowers borne on sturdy stems, as well as their long and often fragrant flowering. Reaching a height of 1 metre on average, they brighten up borders, enhance flower beds, or proudly stand solitary on a lawn. They also allow for the creation of beautiful cut flower arrangements. Discover our radiant selection of large-flowered bush roses in white!
The rose 'Virgo', for classic elegance
With its large 12 cm flowers displaying pure white, the ‘Virgo’ rose is a stunning addition to any garden. Moreover, it is repeat flowering and its flowering lasts all summer and into autumn, from June to October. Its turbinate roses are adorned with tightly packed petals that open to reveal a cream-coloured heart, making them ideal for creating a bouquet with a light fragrance.
Elegant and modern, this rose reaches a height of 1 metre and makes a striking impression alongside other roses, enhancing their colours, such as the red ‘Eric Tabarly’ rose or the mauve ‘Bleu Girl’ rose, or next to perennials of your choice.
Easy to grow, it adapts to all types of soil, even if they are dry and poor.
‘Virgo’ rose (photo Wikipedia)
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9 bush roses with large pink flowersThe rose 'Astrid de Belgique', a soft cream colour
The rose ‘Astrid de Belgique’ stands out for its long flowering period, lasting from May to October, its intense fragrance, and its soft cream-white colour. Its flowers bloom in a deep, turbinate cup shape, characteristic of modern hybrid tea roses. They open on medium green, light, and refined foliage, and emit a powerful scent of rose mixed with fruity and spicy fragrances. These are ideal flowers for your cut flower arrangements.
The rose ‘Astrid de Belgique’ has a bushy silhouette, reaching 1.20 metres in height. With rapid growth, sturdy stems, and disease-resistant foliage, it combines all the qualities of an excellent rose.
If you are a fan of fragrant roses, plant it in groups of three to create a bed with elegant fragrances. You can also pair it with nepeta, lavender, asters, campanula, and grasses, which will beautifully highlight its gentle beauty.
Rose ‘Astrid de Belgique’
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The rose 'Baie des Anges', the romance of peony roses
While it may not grow very tall at 80 cm, the ‘Baie des Anges’ rose offers a long and generous flowering period. With its large, peony-like roses, it has an irresistible charm. The flowers appear between May and October, adorned with a delightful cream-white hue tinged with pale pink. The numerous, tightly packed petals form plump, very double roses that create lovely quarters. Romantic to the core, the roses exude a delightful scent of old roses. The modest size of the ‘Baie des Anges’ rose allows it to be grown both in the garden, as a border or in a bed, as well as in pots. It pairs beautifully with campanulas, snapdragons, lupins, or other roses like ‘Astronomia’ or ‘The Fairy’.
‘Baie des Anges’ rose
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When and how to prune shrub roses?The rose 'Margaret Merril', full of delicate blooms
The rose ‘Margaret Merril’ delights us with its remarkably delicate flowers. They bloom for several months, from June to October, adorned with a white tinged with soft pink. Turbinate in shape, they open into a simple, light cup, revealing a heart of dark yellow stamens that turn red. They emit an intense, sweet fragrance, with notes of lily of the valley, lemon, and spices. They grow clustered in a bouquet on dark green foliage, divided into dentate leaflets.
The bush can reach a height of 80 cm and allows for the creation of lovely fragrant flowering beds. You can pair it, for example, with other ‘Margaret Merril’ roses, or with plants known for their lightness, such as paniculate gypsophila, phlox, nigella, or grasses.
It’s a little gem that requires care. In humid conditions, it can be susceptible to black spot disease (downy mildew).
Rose ‘Margaret Merril’
The rose 'Mémoire', an intense fragrance
With its pure white colour and delightful scents of tea rose, the ‘Mémoire’ rosebush exudes charm. This bushy shrub, reaching a height of 1 metre, blooms from June to October, abundantly offering 8 cm bright and highly fragrant flowers on elegant dark green glossy foliage. The white flowers are full and adorned with numerous petals, tinged with cream highlights. Its sturdy stems make it easy to use as cut flowers. This rosebush is a creation of the Kordes rose breeder, highly resistant to diseases. It is equally lovely in a border in a garden, alongside other flowers or shrubs like clematis, as it is in a pot on a terrace or in a bouquet in a vase at home.
‘Mémoire’ rosebush
The 'Pierre Arditi' rose, an award-winning rose.
The rose ‘Pierre Arditi’ is a multi-award-winning variety developed by the Meilland rose breeder. It combines the beauty of pure white with the intensity of its complex fragrance and excellent disease resistance. Floriferous, it produces white roses with a beautifully turbinate shape from June to October. These are large flowers measuring 13 cm, composed of nearly a hundred petals, forming quarters at their full bloom. When the weather is humid and cool, the pure white of the flowers takes on a slight pink hue.
Its powerful fragrance reveals notes of rose, white flowers, white peaches, and pears.
With its upright bushy silhouette, it reaches up to 1.20 metres in height and brightens up garden beds and borders. It thrives in rich, cool, and deep soil. It is delightful when paired with peonies, decorative salvias, or dwarf buddleias.
Rose ‘Pierre Arditi’
The rose 'Jeanne Coeur', a fresh lemony fragrance
The rose ‘Jeanne Coeur’ has many qualities. It produces large flowers of 11 cm from June to October, borne on upright, sturdy stems. After the yellow buds, turbinate roses appear, adorned with pure white that contrasts with a heart that remains yellow. The yellow and white colours harmoniously declinate on this bush, which can reach up to 95 m in height. The glossy green foliage elegantly highlights this duo of colours. The fragrance of the rose ‘Jeanne Coeur’ is powerful, exuding fresh lemony notes. You can plant it in a monochrome white border, in a flowerbed, or at the front of a bushy hedge. You can also create stunning contrasts by pairing it with dark foliage such as Physocarpus ‘Burgundy Candy’ or with airy plants like Bronze fennel.
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