Rosa Grand Hotel - hybrid tea rose

The 'Grand Hotel' rose bush is a modern hybrid tea rose with exceptional vigour, which means it can be grown as a large bush or as a climber. Its large, double flowers are a vibrant red with a very pleasant, light fragrance. They gather in bunches that bloom for several months, until the beginning of autumn, in successive waves. The dark green foliage is very disease-resistant. This is a versatile, generous rose bush, easy to grow in ordinary soil.

The Grand Hotel rose bush was obtained in 1975 by Mc Gredy, a rose breeder based in Northern Ireland. It is a perpetual variety, which produces large double flowers typical of hybrid tea roses, grouped in small bunches. The bush has an upright, wide and very dense habit and will quickly reach 1.80 m (6ft) high and 1.50 m wide (5ft) if left unpruned. Trained against a support, it can climb up to 2.50 m (8ft) high. Its double flowers measure 10 cm (4in) in diameter and are composed of more than 41 vibrant red petals. Before fading, they open up to reveal a heart of yellow stamens. Each flower exhales the subtle fragrance of tea rose. The foliage is divided into large toothed, glossy dark green leaflets which are disease-resistant in good growing conditions. The plant is leafless in winter.

The Grand Hotel rose bush has a strong presence and is perfect for large flowerbeds and flowering hedges that it will enliven from June to October. It pairs well with lilacs, mock oranges, or buddleias. Trained as a climber, it will beautifully adorn trellises, pergolas or large shrubs. Choose a blue or white-flowered clematis, or even a white or orange climbing rose to go with it.