Rosa 'Camille Claudel' - Shrub Rose

The Rosa 'Camille Claudel' or 'Meiroguste' is a bush that combines the resistance and floribundity of modern varieties with the charm of old-fashioned roses. It is a vigorous plant with large double roses in a deep cup shape, adorned with a lovely pastel colour. They exhale a delicious fragrance with powerful aniseed notes and are beautifully enhanced by decorative and healthy foliage. Its fragrant flowers, vigour, disease resistance, and tireless blooming make it a desirable variety, perfect in a romantic setting and bouquet.

The 'Camille Claudel' rose is a beautiful French creation from the Meilland house introduced in 2020. The plant forms a vigorous and upright bush with rapid growth. It will measure ultimately between 80 cm (32in) and 1.30 m (4ft) in height, with a spread of 50 cm (20in). Its stems are sturdy, with few thorns that are spaced out. Its decorative young shoots are often tinged with bronze. It blooms from May-June until late in the season, in successive waves, if the soil does not dry out too much in summer. Plump buds appear on a healthy, semi-matte dark green foliage, which opens into roses 9-10 cm (4in) in diameter, in the shape of hollow cups, organized in quarters. They are composed of 60 to 70 petals and are carried in small bouquets of 2 to 5 units. These flowers gracefully tilt to be admired. Their perfume, very pronounced, is dominated by powerful aniseed notes. The deciduous foliage is absent in winter.

With its fragrance, the romance of its large pastel flowers, and beautiful floribunda, this 'Camille Claudel' will find its place in the garden in a large rose bed or grouped in 3 at the centre of a flower bed. It adapts to all soils that are not too dry and to all climates. It has its rightful place in an English garden or a cottage garden. To accompany it, choose for example, pale pink roses (Prince Jardinier, Princesse Charlène de Monaco, William Morris), and pretty plants that are very easy to grow like perennial geraniums, bellflowers (lactiflora, rapunculoides), catmints, annual poppies Berries & Cream, foxgloves... Its flowers allow for sumptuous bouquets and refined centrepieces that delicately perfume the house.