Rosa x floribunda Rosa Anny Duperey

The Anny Duperey Rose Bush is undoubtedly one of the best in the category of yellow landscape roses. The bush is vigorous, exceptionally disease-resistant, with an early, generous, and prolonged flowering. Adorned with lemon yellow frilly roses, it illuminates the space around it from May until the first frost. Its flowers exude a sweet lemon scent and display a stable lemon yellow colour, both intense and bright, perfectly highlighted by foliage that remains decorative until the end of the season. Truly easy to grow, almost maintenance-free, this naturally-shaped rose bush finds its place in all flower gardens, in a bed or in a small hedge. 

The Anny Duperey 'Meitongas' Rose is a creation of Meilland, launched in 2007. Awarded in several international competitions (1st Prize Barcelona (Spain) 2005. Certificate of Merit St Albans (United Kingdom) 2008), this creation also obtained the German ADR label in 2008 for its excellent natural disease resistance, among other criteria. Quite rare for a French rose.

This variety Anny Duperey belongs to the family of floribunda roses, with flowers grouped in bouquets. It quickly forms a ramified bush with an upright and slightly spreading habit, reaching a height of about 1.10 m (4ft) and a width of 80 cm (32in). Its thorny stems bear abundant and highly decorative foliage. Its leaves are divided into 5 shiny leaflets of intense green, finely toothed on the edges. Its flowering begins in May, and it repeats in summer until October. As with all perpetual roses, the flowering diminishes in summer if it gets too hot and dry. Its corollas are very double, composed of 80 to 85 swirling petals, resembling old-fashioned roses, they form large pompoms about 8-9 cm (3-4in) wide, and are clustered in groups of 3 to 15 units. The flower offers a subtle gradient from lemon yellow to creamy yellow, from the centre to the periphery. Each flower is carried by a peduncle and releases a powerful peppery scent when crushed. The foliage, deciduous, falls in autumn.

The Anny Duperey rose, generous and warm, adapts to all soils that are not too dry and to all climates, which allows it to be welcomed without reservation in many regions. In the south, it is best placed in the morning sun, while it will bloom better in full sun in the north. It works wonders in a bed or in a small hedge. It can also be planted in groups of 3 plants, arranged in a triangle, isolated in the centre of a bed of blue, white, or orange flowers (chamomiles, lavenders, sages, caryopteris). It can also be paired with landscape roses in white, mauve, red, or orange. It combines perfectly with perennial geraniums (Geranium 'Rozanne', 'Blue Cloud', 'Anne Folkard', 'Nimbus', 'Orion'), perovskias, nepetas, as well as medium-sized grasses.