Rosa Rose de Perouges - Climbing Rose

The 'Rose de Pérouges' or 'Laperou' Climbing Rose is a modern climbing rose with many qualities: the plant is vigorous and disease-resistant, its foliage is highly decorative and bright green, and its flowering is generous and richly coloured. From June to October, it offers beautiful bouquets of semi-double cup-shaped flowers of medium size in a very bright raspberry red. It is an excellent asset for garden, balcony, and terrace decoration.

The climbing rose 'Rose de Pérouges' is a creation of the Laperriere rose garden in the Lyon region (since 1864). Its name pays homage to a beautiful historic village in Ain. It is currently classified as climbing roses with large grouped flowers. Vigorous and hardy, with rapid growth, it will rise to 3m (10ft), or even 4m (13ft) under optimal conditions, and will spread over approximately 2 m². Like all climbing roses, it can also be trained as a bush by regular pruning. It forms long thorny stems that bear deciduous foliage, a bright medium green, which is not very susceptible to diseases and perfectly enhances the colour of the flowers. It blooms from June to October, provided it has enough water and sunlight. Its semi-double cup-shaped flowers, 6-7 cm (2-3in) in diameter, have about twenty petals. They are grouped in bouquets of 3 to 5 units. The colour of the flowers is a vivid red-pink, slightly fading with grace at the edges of the petals.

With its vibrant flowering, this climbing rose is suitable for gardens of all styles. Choose a wall exposed to the morning sun or a structure large enough to support its shower of flowers. It allows you to create sumptuous decorations throughout the summer, requiring very little maintenance apart from regular watering in summer during periods of high heat and prolonged drought, as well as occasional severe pruning. As a structural element in English-style gardens, rose arches form beautiful shelters where you can rest while connecting different parts of the garden. Mix climbing roses or combine them with easy-to-grow large-flowered clematis such as 'Etoile Violette', Montana Mayleen, or 'Broughton Star'. When allowed to grow freely, 'Rose de Pérouges' forms a superb bush that is also ideal in a sizeable flowering hedge alongside lilacs, tamarisks, or other shrub roses such as R.Californica Plena, R.hugonis, Iceberg, or Madame Isaac Pereire.