Rosa floribunda Carte Blanche de 1999 - Floribunda Rose

A creation by Meilland, the Floribunda Carte Blanche® 'Meibarum' Rose is a variety known for its abundant and immaculate blooms that symbolise purity and elegance. Its pleasantly fragrant double white roses measuring 8 cm in diameter brighten the garden throughout the season from May until the first frosts. Combined with its dark green, disease-resistant foliage, its bushy and balanced habit makes it a prime choice for sophisticated flower beds, refined borders, or container growing. Its soft fragrance with hints of sweetness permeates the space with a delicate and soothing presence.

Created in 1999, the Carte Blanche® 'Meibarum' rose belongs to the Rosaceae family and is part of the floribunda group. Reaching a height of 90 to 100 cm and a spread of 40 to 50 cm, its structured bushy habit gives this rose a balanced and harmonious silhouette. Its deciduous, dark green, finely cut and slightly glossy foliage forms a perfect background for its radiant flowers and ensures excellent disease resistance. Throughout the season, the Carte Blanche® rose will display spectacular blooms. Approximately 8 cm in diameter, its pure and immaculate roses evoke the freshness of snow. Its powerful and unique fragrance with sweet, slightly honeyed hints fills the air with an enchanting softness, making this rose a true sensory delight. This tireless rose offers continuous flowering from spring until the first frosts, ensuring a garden brightened with successive waves of radiant white. Awarded for its exceptional qualities, the Carte Blanche® variety received the Silver Medal and the title of Most Beautiful Rose in Monza, Italy, in 1999, as well as a Certificate in St Albans in the United Kingdom in the year 2000. Its thorny stems give it a robust structure and its deciduous foliage renews its vegetative cycle each year for unwavering vigour.

The Carte Blanche® 'Meibarum' rose brings a luminous and serene atmosphere to the garden. Ideal in structured flower beds or refined borders, it creates elegant displays when paired with plants featuring contrasting foliage and delicate flowering. Alongside a lavender ‘Hidcote Blue’, it will form a timeless duo where the deep blue of the floral spikes highlights the pure brilliance of its roses. To enhance its classic allure, it can be accompanied by hardy geraniums such as a 'Rozanne', whose violet-blue flowers extend the summer flowering and cover the ground with flexible, evergreen foliage. In a more structured approach, it will blend beautifully with an Agapanthus ‘Phantom’ whose slender white floral stems extend its luminous effect upwards. Planted in containers on a patio or in a contemporary-style garden, it will also finds its place alongside grasses like a Stipa tenuissima which will adds lightness and movement to its bushy habit.