Rosa x floribunda Fragrant Delight

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.