Rosa 'Anggun' - Shrub Rose

The 'Anggun' or 'Meibokir' Rose is a creation by Meilland dedicated to the singer Anggun. It is part of the Perfumella range, which promises highly fragrant roses. It offers a rose close to perfection, with beautiful pure white petals. It exhales a powerful scent of peppermint, fresh and fragrant. It is also a vigorous and healthy plant that blooms in successive waves from spring to autumn on dark, shiny foliage that contrasts beautifully with the flowers.

The 'Anggun' var. Meibokir Rose is a modern shrub related to hybrid tea roses, launched in 2023 by the Meilland house. With a compact and upright habit, this vigorous shrub reaches a modest height of 50 to 60 cm (20 to 24in). It produces strong, thorny branches that bear abundant, shiny, dark green foliage, resistant to the main rose diseases under good growing conditions. This rose blooms almost continuously from May to October if care is taken to remove faded flowers and the soil does not dry out too much in July-August. Its beautifully cup-shaped flowers are composed of 40 slightly rolled petals. They are warm white with a slight apricot blush at the centre. They exhale an exceptional, fresh and persistent fragrance dominated by notes of peppermint. The flowers are produced singularly, borne at the end of long shoots from the current year or on 2-year-old stems.

This Anggun rose finds its place in a rose or perennial bed or planted in groups of 3 plants in a small garden. Its small size makes it a good subject in a pot on the terrace or balcony. Consider light perennials and annuals such as Cloud Cabbage, white paniculate phlox, or tall foxgloves to accompany it. Its white roses can be paired with many colours in the garden. Pink roses like 'Line Renaud' or 'Charlotte Rampling' can accompany it. Its combination with mauve roses is also delightful ('Blue Girl', 'Charles de Gaulle', 'Claude Brasseur'...). It can be enhanced by a boxwood or yew screen or, conversely, surrounded by a miniature hedge or a carefully organized maze, as in Italian or French gardens. Above all, it is a superbly fragrant, sumptuous cut flower.