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Description

The 'Fragrant Delight' Rose as its name suggests, is a true fragrant delight when in bloom, a rare quality for a cluster-flowered rose dating back to another era. It offers a profusion of bouquets where its semi-double roses with intense fragrance and warm and luminous colours, mixing salmon-copper, coral pink, and sulphur yellow at the heart, are crowded together. This bush with balanced branches, as tall as it is wide, is adorned with foliage that is resistant to diseases. Resilient against weather conditions, it is an excellent variety for the garden, definitely worth discovering!

The 'Fragrant Delight' Rose is an English creation by William E. Tysterman, dating back to 1978, resulting from 'Chanelle' and 'Whisky'. This variety, acclaimed in England, is quite difficult to find in the French horticultural market despite its value, recognised by the Royal Horticultural Society. In a few years, it forms a rounded and vigorous bush, with thorny stems ranging from 90 cm (35in) to 1 m (3ft) in all directions, highly branched, vigorous yet flexible, and covered with very healthy foliage, initially red and becoming shiny dark green in summer. Its flowering is abundant from June to September. Its wide corollas of 8 cm (3in) are semi-double, gathered in bouquets of 5 to 7 flowers with a slightly blurred pattern and undulated petals. The tightly closed buds open into round, flat, and fully open cups, and then produce roses with warm shades, combining different nuances of pink, salmon, soft orange, and copper, around a heart with yellow reflections.  Their fragrance is very pronounced. 

Floribunda roses allow for the creation of beautiful small hedges, planted mixed at the edge of the terrace or in small shrub beds. Associate them with abelias, nandinas, or caryopteris, for example. They are good companions for panicle phlox and tall gypsophila. The medium size and the resistance of 'Fragrant Delight' make it an interesting variety for all gardens, even small ones, and for growing in large pots. Its use is versatile, according to the desires of each gardener: in a rose bed, accompanied by white varieties ('Marie Pavie', 'Swanny'), or mauve ones ('Blue Boy', 'Rhapsody in Blue', 'Roman Waltz'), or mixed with easy-to-grow perennials like perennial geraniums, small-flowered carnations, or asters. And its fragrant roses with a nostalgic charm are moving in bouquets.

Rosa x floribunda Fragrant Delight in pictures

Rosa x floribunda Fragrant Delight (Flowering) Flowering
Rosa x floribunda Fragrant Delight (Foliage) Foliage

Plant habit

Height at maturity 1 m
Spread at maturity 1 m
Growth rate normal

Flowering

Flower colour orange
Flowering time June to September
Inflorescence Corymb
Flower size 8 cm
Fragrance Fragrant
Bee-friendly Attracts pollinators
Good for cut flowers Cut flower blooms

Foliage

Foliage persistence Deciduous
Foliage colour dark green

Botanical data

Genus

Rosa

Species

x floribunda

Cultivar

Fragrant Delight

Family

Rosaceae

Other common names

Floribunda Rose

Origin

Cultivar or hybrid

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Planting and care

Plant this floribunda rose from November to March, in ordinary, well-loosened and free-draining soil. Roses prefer clayey soils, rather heavy than light. In soil that is too sandy, too compact or too dry in summer, it is preferable to bury compost, decomposed manure or leaf-mould at the bottom of the planting hole. However, this rose dreads waterlogged soils in winter. Place it in a sunny position, at most in partial shade. Roses are greedy plants, a specific rose fertiliser application will be beneficial when the foliage emerges, then regularly during the entire flowering period. 

To encourage re-blooming, regularly remove faded flowers. Floribunda rose varieties are more vigorous and floriferous than large-flowered rose varieties. Therefore, the stems should be pruned to about a quarter of their length (4 to 6 buds from the base of the stem) at the end of winter. Always prune above an outward-facing bud, so that the bush thickens and the branches do not become tangled in the centre of the shrub.

 

Planting period

Best planting time February, October to November
Recommended planting time January to April, September to December

Intended location

Suitable for Meadow
Type of use Border, Hedge
Hardiness Hardy down to -23°C (USDA zone 6a) Show map
Ease of cultivation Amateur
Planting density 1 per m2
Exposure Sun
Soil pH Any
Soil type Clayey (heavy), Clayey-chalky (heavy and alkaline), Silty-loamy (rich and light)
Soil moisture Moist soil, rich, furnished.

Care

Pruning instructions To promote new growth, regularly remove faded flowers. Floriferous varieties of floribunda roses are more vigorous and produce more flowers than varieties of hybrid tea roses. Prune the stems to about a quarter of their length (at 4 to 6 buds from the base of the stem) at the end of winter. Always prune above a bud directed outward so that the bush thickens and the branches do not become tangled in the centre of the canopy.
Pruning Pruning recommended once a year
Pruning time February to March
Soil moisture Moist soil
Disease resistance Good
Overwinter Can be left in the ground
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