Artists' roses
Our selection of roses named after artists
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Because of their beauty and colour, roses often evoke the world of artists. It is therefore not surprising that breeders of new hybrids have sometimes given them artists’ names. Solid or variegated colours, vivid or delicate, surprising or moving, sculptural or romantic shapes…, when it comes to creativity, palette of roses named after artists is full of whimsy. Brief overview of roses dedicated to painters and sculptors.
Rose 'Red Leonardo Da Vinci' for romantic red bouquets
Rosebush ‘Red Leonardo Da Vinci’ is a creation of renowned rose breeder Meilland. With its double red, velvety, fragrant flowers, it brings a very romantic charm to your garden. It forms a small shrub 85 cm high and wide and bears generous clusters of flowers for 5 to 6 months, from June to October. Vigorous and weather-resistant, it tolerates rain well. With pruning, it can also be grown in a pot to adorn your terraces or balconies. Its red roses can be paired with white gypsophilas.
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Rose fertiliserRose 'Claude Monet', collection rose
Rose ‘Claude Monet’ is part of modern Hybrid Tea roses. This bush with a bushy habit bears 10 cm diameter double flowers, variegated in pink or red, yellow and white. This multicoloured mix gives it a playful, creative touch, as if painted with a brush. It blooms in June and September and exudes a sweet rose fragrance with notes of citrus trees and vanilla. It belongs to Delbard’s Painters’ Roses series. Susceptible to disease, it is a collection rose to be pampered.
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Rose 'Prix PJ Redouté', generous flowering
Created in honour of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, appointed official painter of Château de la Malmaison by Empress Joséphine, the Rose ‘Prix PJ Redouté’ delights with the generosity and grace of its flowers. It is covered in large double flowers in abundance from May to first frosts. Raspberry-coloured, rounded and very full of petals, roses have a scent of jasmine, lily of the valley, vanilla, tea rose or hay. Very hardy, it is a shrub rose that can reach 80 cm in height.
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Caring for roses: the right equipmentLarge-flowered rose 'Botero', sculptural red flowers
Large double flowers of Rose ‘Botero’ work wonders in bouquets and gardens. Measuring 12 to 13 cm across, they are bright red and display well-sculpted shapes reminiscent of female statues by Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero. They have been repeatedly awarded for their damask rose scent blended with notes of redcurrant and blackcurrant. It is a creation of rose breeder Meilland. Rose ‘Botero’ is vigorous and flowers from June to October. When they fade, the flowers shed an elegant shower of petals onto soil. Charming!
Fragonard rose, a reliable choice
Raised by Delbard, named after the renowned Fragonard perfumery and 18th-century painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Rose ‘Fragonard’ forms large double flowers in a fresh pink. It flowers over a long period from May to October and has been awarded six times for its aesthetic qualities and garden performance. This variety is also highly fragrant and its scent is a blend of old-rose notes and hints of grapefruit, apricot, mango and raspberry. A reliable choice that also looks beautiful in a bouquet!
Rose 'Botticelli', sheer delicacy
The Clustered-flower rose ‘Botticelli’ is a Meilland creation, named in honour of the Italian Renaissance painter Botticelli. With its pastel pink and charming clusters of 2 to 7 roses, it offers a romantic, delicate flowering from June to October. The beauty of this rose lies in its form, midway between modern and old roses. C’est un hommage à la grâce de la Nature et des fleurs peintes par Sandro Botticelli dans ses toiles célèbres « La Naissance de Vénus » et « Le printemps ». Fragrant and vigorous, it has received numerous awards.
Rose 'Henri Matisse', a variegated display of bright colours
Rose ‘Henri Matisse’ is a modern Hybrid Tea rose bred by Delbard. Dedicated to artist Henri Matisse, a lover of vivid colours, it catches the eye with its petals variegated in red, pink and white. Elegant, it produces flowers from May to October in unique tones that do not go unnoticed. This vigorous, bushy bush can reach 90 cm in height and adapts well to garden beds as well as to cultivation in a large pot. It exudes great charm and gives off a light, subtle fragrance.
Rose 'Fantin-Latour', a suave, sweet fragrance
Rose ‘Fantin-Latour’ becomes within a few years a magnificent bush of 1 m to 1.5 m. For about one month in June–July, it is adorned with an abundance of double roses with tightly packed petals and a carnation-pink tone, delicate and almost powdery. It was named after French painter Fantin-Latour, known for romantic paintings of generous bouquets of roses.
Rose ‘Fantin-Latour’ is a hybrid of Rosa centifolia, or cent-feuilles, also called cabbage rose, of an old-fashioned type. Its powerful fragrance is both heady and sweet, typical of centifolia roses prized by perfumers.
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