Rosa Dioressence - Hybrid Tea Rose

The 'Dioressence' Rose is a modern hybrid tea rose whose name evokes a grand perfume created by Christian Dior. It is appreciated for the complex fragrance of its large flowers, a captivating scent that can only be found in roses known as blue roses. This bush rose produces clusters of large, double, campanulate flowers, beautifully coloured in mauve with more purple undersides, whose pronounced fragrance with woody notes reveals subtle aromas of geranium and oakmoss. This variety is perpetual, but its elegant foliage, a shiny dark green, shows some susceptibility to diseases.

'Dioressence' or 'Deldiore' is a modern bush rose with large clustered flowers obtained by Delbard-Chabert in 1984. In the year of its introduction, this beautiful variety won the Gold Medal for fragrance in Monza. Other awards followed, with a total of 7 awards for this rose. This bush with a bushy and relatively low habit reaches about 80 cm (32in) in height with a spread of 70 cm (28in) at maturity, with rapid growth. It produces robust, thorny and well-branched branches, which bear elegant foliage, bronze at the start, and a shiny dark green. If faded flowers are removed from May to October, the plant produces successive waves of large, 10-12 cm (4-5in) in diameter, perfectly turbinate flowers with a very tight centre, typical of hybrid tea roses. They are composed of 26 to 40 delicately fringed petals, a colour that is neither truly pink nor truly blue, doubled with violet, which fades slightly to mauve at full bloom. They are gathered in small clusters of 3 to 5 and carried at the end of long one-year-old shoots or emerging from 2-year-old stems.

This 'Dioressence' rose is ideal for the garden of someone who loves fragrant flowers and has experience caring for them. It deserves a graceful setting and a place not far from the house. Some light-flowering perennial plants (autumn asters, foxgloves, penstemons), grasses, lavenders, and catmints are ideal for enhancing its beauty and accompanying it late in the season. For example, pair it with a red or garnet rose (Charles de Mills, Papa Meilland, Rose Garden of l'Haÿ, Hansa); their colours and fragrances create a beautiful symphony. If you are feeling brave, you can also try the combination of mauve with soft orange or yellow, with a rose like Danaë or O Sole Mio. Simple and easy-to-grow perennials like Geranium Rozanne, Geranium Pink Cloud, Nepeta Walker's Low, and campanulas will accompany it for much of the beautiful season. It will look good on its own, for example, in a group of 3 plants and in a large pot on your terrace or balcony. Its flowers make beautiful romantic bouquets alongside pink peonies and white lilacs.