Rosa André Le Nôtre - Modern Hybrid Tea Rose

The 'André Le Nôtre' Rose is a modern hybrid tea rose from the beautiful Romantica series that will undoubtedly charm lovers of old roses. While it captivates with its appearance and fragrance, this very beautiful Rose from Meilland also shows a perpetual character and excellent disease resistance. Its large, double, and chubby flowers, in a pastel range, subtly combine pale pink, peach, and tender apricot, in a sublime scent of a hundred-petalled rose. The bush, sturdy and with abudant foliage, has won several prestigious international competitions. So many reasons to adopt it in a romantic bed or a small garden of flowers and scents. Make beautiful bouquets with its beautiful roses!

'André Le Nôtre' is a modern shrub rose with large flowers from the Romantica series, obtained by Meilland in 2001. This excellent variety has a beautiful track record: Gold Medal in Rome and Courtrai, it won the perfume prize in Geneva, Madrid, Monza, and Barcelona. This dense bush with an upright and bushy habit, reaches approximately 1.10m (4ft) in height with a spread of 70cm (28in) at maturity, with rapid growth. It produces strong, thorny, and well-branched branches, which carry very elegant foliage, of a semi-matte dark green, not very susceptible to diseases. From May-June until October, if one takes care to remove faded flowers, the plant produces waves of beautiful 12cm (5in) diameter cup-shaped flowers, whose slightly blurred shape evokes roses of yesteryear. They are composed of 60 to 65 petals of a pale pink colour and open to a tightly packed heart of a deeper pink. They are grouped in bouquets at the end of long shoots from the current year or appearing on 2-year-old stems. The flowering, repeating, is distinguished by a pronounced scent of centifolia roses with fruity notes of apricot.

'André Le Nôtre', with its opulent and very "shabby chic" flowers, is a perfect rose for romantic beds and bouquets, or planted among low-growing perennials such as violets, carnations, dwarf asters, or aubrietas, for example, which will hide its slightly bare base after a few years. Of medium size, well-branched, it is ideal for planting singly or in groups of 3 specimens. It blends well in low-growing shrub beds with summer or autumn flowering, or mixed with light perennials and annuals. Well highlighted in front of a boxwood or yew screen or surrounded by a miniature hedge, it will evoke a Renaissance Italian or French garden. It is also and above all a generous rose, which should be placed near the house to also enjoy its fragrance. The Romantica series of roses offers many possibilities for associations, for example by planting 'Allegro' (purple rose), 'Palais Royal' (white), and 'Auguste Renoir' (Bengal rose) side by side.