Rosa x floribunda Lili Marleen

The  'Lilli Marleen' Rose Bush is a flowering and reliable plant, a classic in flower gardens. Its semi-double roses are a vibrant and velvety red, grouped in dazzling bouquets highlighted by beautiful foliage in a very dark green, quite resistant to diseases. This fairly low but vigorous and well-branched bush provides continuous summer flowering. Ideal for creating borders and sunny flower beds, in small spaces, or the terrace.

The 'Lilli Marleen' Rose Bush is a famous German creation by Kordes, dating back to 1959. This variety, belonging to the floribunda family, quickly forms a ramified and compact bush, with thorny stems, 65 cm (26in) tall and 50 to 60 cm (20 to 24in) wide. It is covered with light foliage, initially red and turning very dark green in summer. Its flowering is abundant from June to September, and then continues until November. Its wide corollas, measuring 6 to 7 cm (2 to 3in), semi-double, composed of 25 petals, are gathered in bouquets of 5 to 7 flowers. The tightly closed buds open into globular flowers, with petals curved like shells, gradually blooming into flatter and more open cups. The petals are a vibrant and perfectly uniform red. The fragrance is light.

Floribunda roses allow for the creation of beautiful small hedges on the edge of the terrace or in small shrub beds. Combine them with abelias, nandinas, or caryopteris, for example. They are good companions for paniculate phlox and tall baby's breath. The modest size and diseaseresistance of 'Lilli Marleen' make it an interesting variety for all gardens, even small ones, and for cultivation in large pots. Its use is versatile, according to the gardener's desires: in a rose bed or mixed with easy-to-grow perennials like perennial geraniums, small-flowered carnations, or asters. These perfumed roses with their old-fashioned charm are also touching in bouquets.