Rosa 'Allegro' - Climbing Rose

The 'Allegro' Rose is a recent variety with a climbing habit and moderate growth. It has many advantages: robustness, hardiness, excellent disease resistance, and a long flowering period with dark pink double flowers reminiscent of old-fashioned quartered roses. It also has the advantage of producing flowers even at the base of the branches, on lovely dense foliage, giving this beautiful plant a neat flowering columnar look.

The climbing rose 'Allegro' or 'Merleodevin' is a creation by Meilland, introduced in 2014. When regularly pruned, it remains a small climbing bush, not exceeding 2m (7ft) in height. It forms a beautiful, vigorous bush with a flexible and free habit if not trained. Its thorny branches are adorned with abundant small green foliage, rather matte in finish, particularly resistant to black spots, and truly decorative. It blooms abundantly in June and continues to flower consistently until the first frost. It produces wide 8cm (3in) roses, double (100 petals), arranged in quarters in the centre of a collar of larger petals. They have excellent durability. They open in a cup shape, reminiscent of old-fashioned roses, displaying uniform and deep cherry pink petals. They are almost devoid of fragrance.

The 'Allegro' Rose is also a hardy and undemanding plant, thriving in any ordinary soil without excess limestone. It will charm enthusiasts of well-groomed plants, as when trained on a post, for example, it forms a true flowering garland from bottom to top, perfectly regular. It can also be left to grow as a large bush without directing its growth; it will then form a romantic mass of flowers and foliage, ideal as a backdrop for a perennial or low-growing shrub border (such as shrubby cinquefoil, dwarf abelia and buddleias, groundcover roses, heathers, compact physocarpus...). It could also be imagined in a rose hedge, associated with large white or pink shrubs (Iceberg, Felicité and Perpetue) or purple ones (Guinée, Francis Dubreuil, Young Lycidas...)