Rosa Botticelli Meisylpho - Standard Rose

The Standard Rose, Rosa Botticelli Meisylpho, showcases a well-bred variety, an exceptional rose bush with grace, generosity, and robustness. Its beautiful delicately scented porcelain pink flowers bloom for over six months on very healthy foliage, which always remains. With the appearance of a small tree covered in roses, it deserves a prime location, either as a specimen plant, at the centre of a flowerbed or even in a large pot on the patio.

Standard roses are obtained by grafting a variety (here the Botticelli groundcover rose) onto a single and upright stem belonging to a different rose (Rosa canina, R. laxa or R. multiflora). In very cold regions, it may be useful to protect the rootstock in winter.

Rose Botticelli Meisylph has compact, vigorous, well-branched and regular growth. Grafted on a stem, it has a characteristic habit and reaches a height of about 1.50 m (5ft) with a width of 70 cm at maturity. Its thorny stems have beautiful tough and glossy foliage, which is dark green slightly tinged with bronze on the young shoots that form a beautiful setting for the flowering. This repeat flowering is both early and abundant from May-June until the first frost. Grouped in clusters of 2 to 7 units, the broad 8-9 cm (3-4in) roses are composed of 50 to 55 petals. They have a classic shape. Their colour is a light pink that takes on salmon to ochre hues. Each rose blooms in a different way, giving it a more or less crumpled and undulated appearance, like old-fashioned roses. The resistance to rose diseases is excellent. It has received numerous awards in international competitions, for all these qualities, including the Gold Medal in The Hague and Bagatelle, and the Golden Rose in Geneva.

The Botticelli Standard Rose is a magnificent plant, deserving a place of honour in the garden or on the patio. It creates sumptuous displays throughout the summer period, requiring little maintenance except for regular watering in summer in case of high heat and prolonged drought. To accompany it, choose, for example, white groundcover roses, perennial geraniums, delphiniums, foxgloves, catmints, and tall baby's breath. Place a groundcover such as sweet alyssum or the common lady's mantle at its base. Create luxurious bouquets for the house by combining its roses with white or orange lilies....Its roses, which hold up well in a vase, are absolutely charming in bouquets or to decorate a centrepiece.