Rosa x floribunda 'Belle de Grasse' Street Colours - Floribunda Rose

The Street Colours 'Belle de Grasse' 'Meibelitz' Rose is a new-generation landscape rose perfectly suited for small city gardens and container plantings. It forms a bush of modest size, dense and rounded, covered with flowers from May until frost. Exceptionally resistant to diseases and pollution, its dark green shiny foliage enhances its partially open cup-shaped flowers, dark red with a silver reverse. Versatile and low-maintenance, it is also an ideal rose for beginner gardeners.

The 'Belle de Grasse' or 'Meibelitz' Rose is a Meilland landscape rose part of a new range, the 'Street Colours', designed to adapt to small urban spaces, with remarkable floribundity, disease-free plants and minimal maintenance. It eventually forms a slightly spreading bush, 40 to 60 cm (16 to 24in) tall and 50 to 60 cm (20 to 24in) wide. From spring to autumn, on glossy dark green foliage, bouquets of 3 to 15 flowers per stem, with about 40 petals, 5 to 6 cm (2in) wide, bloom. Their colour is dark red, highlighted by a silver reverse that gives them relief and elegance. Their rounded shape reveals a golden yellow stamen centre.

This Belle de Grasse 'Meibelitz' rose thrives in all gardens, regardless of size, on balconies and patios. It adapts to all soils that are not too dry and all climates. Easy to grow, all left is to admire it and find companions in borders or edging. Some silver-foliaged plants, such as Stachys or Artemisias, and purple shrubs like Berberis create, a beautiful contrast. Grasses add a touch of elegance and also take on silver reflections in autumn, while blue-flowered perennials like salvias and nepetas complement its colour. It quickly becomes ornamental in a large pot before joining bouquets in a vase.