Rosa Pleiade - Floribunda Rose

Rose PLEIADE® 'ORAmandon' stands out for its striped roses, with a pattern that varies from one flower to the next. Red mingles with pink and white in a bold palette, enhanced by fully double corollas and a fresh, delicate fragrance. Repeat flowering, vigorous and well branched, this bush rose flowers for a long period in beds and large borders. Plant it in small groups to highlight the unusual colour of its flowers.

This rose bred by Pierre Orard, the third generation of a family of rose breeders established in Feyzin, was introduced in France by Roseraies Orard in 2026. PLEIADE® is its commercial name and 'ORAmandon' its official cultivar name; it is listed in the 2026 edition of Roses Orard Sélection Édition. It is a floribunda, a group belonging to bush roses with clustered flowers and classified among bedding roses. Its roses open singly or in small clusters of up to five flowers. The plant forms a dense, well-branched bush, 80 cm tall and approximately 60 cm wide. The flower buds open into turbinate flowers 7 to 8 cm in diameter, made up of around forty petals. Their red base colour, nuanced with pink, is irregularly striped and splashed with paler pink and white. Their light to moderate fragrance has a fresh, delicate character. Flowering returns in waves from June to October, or even from late May until the first frosts in mild climates. Deciduous, and therefore absent in winter, the leaves are composed of oval, toothed leaflets; they form dense, glossy green foliage.  The young shoots take on bronze to reddish shades and the branches bear prickles. The foliage has good overall resistance to common rose diseases.
The name Pléiade refers both to the star cluster and to the circle of Renaissance poets, a dual resonance for a rose born of Lyon's long tradition.

This Pléiade rose, not very large but floriferous and richly coloured, has every place in a small, well-tended garden. It is also useful for creating large monochromatic borders, as its original colouring can be difficult to match. It can, for example, be paired with white garden phlox, red penstemons, daisies and shrubs with dark foliage, such as Physocarpus 'Burgundy Candy' and 'Little Angel', or compact weigela 'Naomi Campbell'. A mauve rose such as 'Pacific Dream' will soften its strong personality.