Rosa 'Elle' - Hybrid Tea Rose

The 'Elle' Rose, dedicated to the eponymous women's magazine, is vigorous and compact, noted for its powerful fragrance at Bagatelle and Tokyo, as well as for the charm of its large, fully double roses with a perfect form typical of hybrid tea roses. Their original and feminine colour is a tender yellow tinged with orange and pink, and fruity notes of banana characterise their fragrance. It flowers from May until the first frost on ornamental foliage, glossy, dark green, and resistant to diseases. An exceptional cut flower!

The Elle Rose 'Meibderos' is a modern shrub rose related to hybrid tea roses, obtained in 1999 by Meilland, several times awarded in the United States in 2005 (it received the AARS, the most prestigious award in the USA), in Japan and France. With a bushy and compact habit, this bush reaches about 75 cm in height and 50 cm (20in) in width at maturity, with rapid growth. It produces sturdy branches, which bear elegant and well-filled foliage. All summer, if faded flowers are removed, spiral buds appear and open into perfectly shaped roses composed of 50 to 55 petals measuring 13 cm (5in) in diameter. The colour is a blend of pink, apricot and cream. They are solitary, borne at the end of long shoots of the year or appearing on 2-year-old stems. 

With its perfect and charming flowers, this rose 'Elle' is a delicate jewel for romantic or neat flowerbeds or as a solitary plant. With a moderate size and dense habit, it is ideal for planting in a small hedge or in a group of 3 plants and growing in a large pot. It blends well in low shrub flowerbeds with summer or autumn flowering mixed with light perennials and annuals. It can be beautifully showcased in front of a boxwood or yew hedge or, on the contrary, surrounded by a miniature hedge or a carefully organised maze, as in Italian or French gardens. It is also above all a generous rose, to be paired with a clematis with small white flowers like 'Mrs Robert Brydon' or with double pink flowers Clematis viticella 'Purpurea Plena Elegans'.

Obtained by Meilland in 1999.