Rosa x polyantha Meillandina Lavender - Dwarf Rose

The Lavender Meillandina dwarf rose is a charming and easy-to-care-for miniature variety, perfect for decorating patios and low borders. This little bush blooms generously between June and October, offering clusters of lovely little roses, very well-formed, adorned with an unusual mauve fuchsia colour. Its foliage, resistant to diseases, remains decorative throughout the season.

The flowers, gathered in clusters, come from the polyantha rose, an old hybrid resulting from Rosa multiflora and R. chinensis. Their shape resembles that admired in the flowers of modern hybrid teas. This variety has a particularly compact, bushy, ball-shaped habit. Slow-growing, it will not exceed 50 cm (20in) in all directions. The very double flowers, 4 cm (2in) wide, composed of 25 to 35 petals, emerge from dark pink pointed buds. They open in an intermediate colour between mauve and fuchsia pink. The flowering is renewed from May-June to September-October, almost uninterrupted if the soil remains moist. The scent of the flowers is very light. This variety develops medium green, deciduous foliage, resistant to diseases, carried by thorny stems.

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The 'Meillandina Lavender' rose, with its low and compact habit and its neat appearance, performs wonderfully in rockeries, low borders, or in a flowering pot on the patio.  Plant it en masse along pathways or to highlight shrub beds. It integrates perfectly with light or opulent perennial beds and pairs well with other dwarf roses like the varieties from Delbard's 'Bordure' series. You can associate it with white, mauve, or pink blooms for a more romantic look. Perennial geraniums (Geranium Blue Cloud, Anne Folkard, Nimbus, Orion, Rozanne), bellflowers (lactiflora, rapunculoides), catmints, creeping baby's breath, or other silver basket plants will be good companions for this mini-rose.