Rosa Marina Picasso - Floribunda Rose

The Rosa 'Marina Picasso' is a small romantic bush that blooms with incredible generosity from late spring to the first frost. Its roses, almost pure white, with nostalgic charm, bloom in small clusters on foliage that does not stain and remains decorative throughout the season. With exceptional disease resistance and reliability, it is also a versatile variety that can be used in various ways, both in the garden and in pots. Definitely worth discovering!

The Rosa 'Marina Picasso' is a creation of the Meilland house registered in 2019. This excellent variety won the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg Baden-Baden Prize (Germany) in 2016 and the "Coup de Cœur" Prize of the SNHF Jury in 2019. It is a small bush that forms a dense, vigorous, thorny, and flexible shrub in a few years. At maturity, it reaches an average height of 85 cm (34in) and an average width of 55 cm (22in). Its foliage is abundant, composed of green, semi-matte leaflets that are disease-resistant. The foliage is deciduous and falls in autumn. The flowering is exceptionally regular from May-June to October-November. The 8 cm (3in) wide corollas are double, gathered in clusters of 3 to 12, each composed of 70 to 80 petals arranged in quarters. The buds open into delicately cream-washed virgin cups. The flowers of this rose are not scented, but they resist rain very well.

The floribunda roses allow for beautiful small hedges, planted mixed along the terrace or in small shrub beds. Combine them with ground cover roses, abelias, nandinas, or caryopteris, for example. They are good companions for foxgloves and tall gypsophiles. The modest size, generosity, and resistance of 'Marina Picasso' make this rose an ideal candidate for all gardens, even small ones and container gardening. It can be used in various ways according to each gardener's preferences: in a rose bed, alongside other white varieties ('Marie Pavie', 'Swanny'), as well as red or orange. Like all roses, it looks stunning mixed with easy-care plants such as perennial geraniums, catmints, or asters. And its roses are beautiful in small bouquets or centrepieces, along with double and white clematis flowers, for example.