Rosa 'Sweet Love' / 'Chandos Beauty' - Hybrid Tea Rose

The 'Sweet Love' or 'Harmisty' Rosebush is a wonderful variety. It is appreciated for the sensual beauty of its large campanulate cream-pink flowers and its floribundus nature, strong growth and resistance to diseases. It is an exceptional bouquet flower, and the garden in large rosebush beds will bloom from late spring to early autumn.

The 'Sweet Love' Rosebush, registered by English rose breeder Harkness in 2005, belongs to the modern hybrid tea roses, also known as hybrid teas. This excellent variety has won numerous awards in international competitions for its fragrance, floribundity and natural disease resistance: Fragrance Award in Glasgow 2007, Certificate of Merit in Glasgow 2007, Gold Medal in Great Britain 2007, Fragrance Award in Baden-Baden 2011, Gold Medal in Baden-Baden 2011. 

The plant forms a small, bushy, semi-upright habit with vigorous and rapid growth. It reaches approximately 90 cm (35in) in height and 60 cm (24in) in width. From May-June until late in the season, on lush and well-furnished foliage, dark green and shiny, very beautiful cone-shaped roses, 10 to 11 cm (4in) wide, with 80 petals, solitary, carried by long, sturdy, thorny stems, bloom. They are pearly cream in colour, with delightful salmon reflections at the base of the petals and a centre of flesh pink colour. The fragrance is pronounced and elegant. The foliage resists diseases well and perfectly enhances the delicate colour of the roses. A hardy variety.

This modern 'Sweet Love' rose, with its fragrance, the beauty of its flowers and generosity, will find its place in the garden in a large rosebed or as a solitary plant in a well-maintained garden. It adapts to all soils that are not too dry and all climates, tolerating both rain and heat, which allows it to be welcomed without reservation from the north to the south of our country, even at medium altitudes. It pairs perfectly with white, orange or even mauve roses, as well as with pretty easy-to-grow perennials such as perennial geraniums (Geranium Blue Cloud, Anne Folkard, Nimbus, Orion), bellflowers (lactiflora, rapunculoides), catmints, snapdragons, foxgloves... Its flowers can be used to create charming bouquets that will delicately perfume the house.