The most beautiful Guillot roses

The most beautiful Guillot roses

Our selection of sumptuous Generosa roses from Guillot

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Modified the 2 October 2025  by Marion 5 min.

Guillot is one of the renowned French rose creators whose reputation is well established. The house is particularly known for its old roses.

With the Generosa collection by Guillot, the aesthetic advantages of old roses, with their very full cup-shaped flowers in various forms, combine with the qualities of modern varieties. The roses thus offer disease resistance, vigour, ease of cultivation, floribundity, and a long perpetual flowering period.

The generous colour palette of the ‘Generosa’ roses ranges from the most classic to the most surprising, including varieties with evolving colours.

Additionally, there are powerful and diverse fragrances, exuding floral, spicy, indulgent, or fruity notes to satisfy all tastes.

Among these modern hybrid roses, here is our top selection of 6 ‘Generosa’ roses by Guillot to adopt in your garden for all your desires.

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The rose ‘Martine Guillot’: a climbing rose with an intense fragrance

The rose bush Generosa ‘Martine Guillot’ is one of the must-have varieties in the collection. It offers a bouquet of large double roses measuring 10 cm, with a delicate white colour subtly tinged with light pink.

This is a very perpetual variety, with roses that bloom abundantly from May until the first frosts. They emit a powerful floral fragrance, blending rose, violet, lilac, and gardenia, depending on the atmosphere.

It is one of the tallest roses in the range, reaching up to 2.5 metres in height.

Hardy and resistant to diseases, this variety from Guillot can be cultivated by all gardeners.

Use this vigorous variety as a climbing plant to elegantly dress pergolas, arbors, or to conceal an unsightly pillar or wall. It thrives in full sun as well as in partial shade.

The rose ‘Martine Guillot’ fits beautifully in white gardens with a romantic and refined style, as well as in combination with colourful plants for a bright and light touch in borders.

Finally, its roses are also well-suited for bouquets and ensure good vase life.

climbing Guillot rose with a strong fragrance

Rose Generosa ‘Martine Guillot’

The rose ‘Agnès Schilliger’: a bush of bright pom-poms

The Generosa rose ‘Agnès Schilliger’ is a variety with a stunning fuchsia violet colour, lightening as the days go by. These double, frilled flowers form adorable crumpled lace pom-poms measuring 8 cm.

‘Agnès Schilliger’ offers a good perpetual flowering, brightening up the entire summer and extending until the first autumn chills.

Of course, its flowers reveal an old rose fragrance with spicy (ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon) and fruity (raspberry, strawberry, and currant) notes.

This variety was named in honour of a floral arrangement creator, thanks to its roses being widely used as cut flowers in bouquets.

This small bushy rose (1 metre in height and 80 cm in spread) will thrive in a flowering pot on a terrace or balcony. In limited spaces, it is equally suitable in a perennial bed or isolated in groups of three.

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Generosa rose ‘Agnès Schilliger’

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The rose ‘Laurent Voulzy’: beautiful evolving warm colours

The rose bush Generosa ‘Laurent Voulzy’ is remarkable for its colours. Its solitary turbinate flowers, measuring 9 cm, indeed offer an evolving colour palette throughout the hours. The multicoloured shades transform into incredible gradients of pink, orange, and amber yellow. These colours pay tribute to the Caribbean origins of the godfather of this rose bush.

The flowering brightens the garden from May to June, continuing almost without interruption until the first frosts, provided that care is taken to encourage re-flowering by pruning the faded flowers as they appear.

In addition to this array of warm colours, the rose bush exudes a fragrance with tangy notes.

This small rounded bush, reaching 90 cm in height and spread, is thornless, making it an ideal candidate for small spaces or locations near pathways.

Whether in a pot, in a bed with perennials and grasses, or as a solitary specimen, it will be hard to tire of this rose bush with its ever-changing colours.

Easy to care for, hardy, and requiring little maintenance, it will suit all gardeners, even those with limited time to devote to their plants.

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Rose bush Generosa ‘Laurent Voulzy’

The rose ‘Reine Sammut’: a vibrant flowering

The rose bush Generosa ‘Reine Sammut’ is part of the roses that pay tribute to the great names of French gastronomy, like ‘Paul Bocuse’.

Its astonishing fragrance combines, depending on the atmosphere, gourmet notes of lemon, blackcurrant, or bubble-gum, like a true dessert.

Its flowering is equally impressive, as its double roses with a 10 cm cup resemble true paintings: they are adorned with raspberry pink with salmon hues, tinged with gold on the reverse of the petals.

Like all ‘Generosa’ roses, the flowering is indeed perpetual, offering its display in the garden from late spring until the first frosts.

At maturity, this upright variety reaches 1 metre in height and 50 cm in spread. Enjoy all its qualities in a large pot on the terrace or balcony.

Its cut flowers will also not go unnoticed in a bouquet and will fill the home with its sweet fragrances.

double flowering scented rose bush

Rose bush Generosa ‘Reine Sammut’

The ‘Zayed of Abu Dhabi’ rose: the must-have red rose

The Generosa rose bush ‘Zayed of Abu Dhabi’ is adorned with timeless deep red roses, a true symbol of love.

The flowering features large well-formed flowers of 10 cm, revealing multiple wavy petals, beginning in May or June and continuing until autumn. The flowers naturally lighten as they open, shyly revealing their stamens.

The roses also offer a powerful fragrance.

The resistance, great hardiness, and healthy foliage that is less susceptible to diseases of ‘Zayed of Abu Dhabi’ make it an ideal rose bush for beginners.

Its small dimensions (1 metre in height and 50 cm in spread) allow it to fit in anywhere: in a pot on a terrace or balcony, in a border with other flowers or roses, or even as a standalone in the centre of a well-maintained short grass meadow.

In a bouquet, the colour and fragrance of these roses will be wonderful in your home.

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Generosa ‘Zayed of Abu Dhabi’ rose bush

The rose ‘100 Idées Jardin’: an uncommon yellow colour

The rose bush Generosa ‘100 Ideas Garden’ has been named in honour of the gardening magazine of the same name and has gained international acclaim.

Its full flowers measuring 9 cm, reminiscent of old roses, are formed in quarters and feature a multitude of petals. However, it is its stunning colour that truly makes it a charming variety: its roses display a golden yellow tinged with amber, beautifully complemented by bronze-green foliage.

Highly floriferous and perpetually blooming, this rose bush delights the garden from late spring to the first autumn frosts, almost without interruption.

A variety that is obviously fragrant, the rose ‘1001 Ideas Garden’ reveals a true aromatic bouquet with fruity notes of grapes and mandarins, as well as cardamom.

This small bush reaches 1 metre in height at ripeness with a spread of 50 cm. It will thrive both in borders, accompanied by flowers in complementary blue or violet hues, as well as in a lovely pot or as a standalone.

rose bush Guillot with yellow old roses

Rose Generosa ‘100 Ideas Garden’

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