Rosa Paint it Black

The 'Paint It Black' Rose, very similar to the black rose, is reminiscent of the famous 'Black Baccara' from Meilland. Its flower is slightly less full, but it may be even darker, especially when it blooms. It embodies a great horticultural success, and the advent of an iconic rose for generations of rose enthusiasts in search of perfection. With its perfect shape, it displays a very rich color and velvety petals that play with the light. A softly scented flower, it holds up well in a vase, ideal for creating elegant bouquets. The plant itself is easy to grow, and it blooms from spring to summer.

'Paint It Black' is a modern shrub rose related to hybrid tea roses, recently obtained in Germany. With an upright habit, it reaches a minimum height of 70 cm (28in) and a spread of 50 cm (20in) at maturity, a little more in hot climates. It produces strong branches, adorned with prickles, which bear elegant shiny dark green foliage, resistant to rose diseases. Throughout the season, if the faded flowers are removed, it produces new flowers. Its turbinated roses, composed of 30 to 35 petals, measure about 10 cm in diameter. They are born from almost black spiralled buds, then open into perfectly shaped roses, in a mix of very dark red, garnet, purple and black reflections. They are solitary, carried at the end of long straight shoots from the current year or 2-year-old ones. The deciduous foliage is absent in winter.

This Paint It Black rose, with its fascinating roses, is a rather exceptional variety due to the color of its flowers, but also for its good health. Planted in groups of 3 plants, it will bring a touch of wonder that will make a garden unique. Welcome to the flowerbeds accompanied by purple roses ('Sissi', 'Charles de Gaulle', 'Blue Girl'), it deserves to be planted individually, to be seen, not far from the house, surrounded by small gray foliage. For example, next to the Artemisia Powis Castle. Perennial or annual light plants are traditionally friends of roses, like the Crambe cordifolia, the tall foxglove, and the gypsophiles. It will be well highlighted in front of a boxwood or yew screen, or, on the contrary, surrounded by a miniature hedge or a carefully organized maze like in Italian or French gardens. It is also and above all an outstanding rose for bouquets!