Rosa Parfum de Grasse

Rosa Parfum de Grasse is a modern hybrid tea rose, known in the garden for its radiant colour that warms the heart and its powerful fragrance with fruity notes. The elegant buds open slowly, revealing over 30 petals of a deep pink-orange colour with a yellow-orange reverse, forming a perfectly-shaped bicolour flower. This versatile rose is resistant to diseases. This repeat-flowerer is perfect in flower beds and is remarkable in bouquets.

Rosa Parfum de Grasse is a modern bush rose with large flowers. It was obtained by the French rose breeder Michel Adam in 2007, who is also responsible for other highly appreciated varieties such as Broceliande and Fanny Ardant. This dense bushy shrub with an upright habit is well-balanced. It reaches about 80 to 90cm (32 to 35in) in height and 60cm (24in) in width at maturity. It has a rapid growth rate. It produces sturdy, sparsely thorny and lightly branched stems. It bears very elegant foliage, which is purple at budding before turning dark glossy green. The foliage is resistant to diseases. Throughout summer, the plant produces large flowers typical of hybrid teas, composed of 35 to 40 petals, measuring 13cm (5in) in diameter. They open into slightly globular cups. They are solitary, sometimes grouped in 2 or 3, carried at the end of long shoots from the current year or by those that emerge from 2-year-old stems. The rose will flower continuously if faded blooms are removed. The roses are distinguished by a complex and powerful fragrance, composed of a base of old rose enriched with fruity notes among which ethereal notes hover.

With its bright colour and its sweet fragrance, Rosa Parfum de Grasse is ideal in a rose bed or as a background for light perennials, or even in isolation in a well-maintained small garden. It is also perfect for use in large monochromatic and fragrant borders, as its vibrant colour can be difficult to match. It can be planted with, for example, white or mauve panicled phlox, red penstemons, and fuchsia-pink shrubby salvias. It works well with the dark foliage of boxwoods, Distylium x 'Blue Cascade', or cotoneasters. Orange or yellow flowers generally blend perfectly with the acidic green of lady's mantle or certain euphorbias. Its long-lasting cut flowers are naturally perfect in bouquets.