Rosa Leo Ferré - Standard Rose

The 'Léo Ferré' Standard Rose forms a small tree with a compact crown adorned with large original roses featuring a contrasting colour. Its turbinate flowers and overall bicolour display white petals with a yellow base edged with carmine red. This variety will also be appreciated from June to October for its respectable disease resistance. Like all standard roses, it thrives in prominent positions in the garden or in a container on the patio. Its roses are also long-lasting in a vase.

Standard roses are created through a process of grafting. A selected variety, such as Léo Ferré, is grafted onto a different rose stem, such as Rosa canina, R. laxa or R. multiflora. The graft is done at a specific height, usually around 90-100 cm (35-39 inches) from the ground. It is recommended to protect the rootstock during winter in extremely cold regions.

The 'Léo Ferré' Rose (Adabiterse) is part of the hybrid teas, recognisable by the beautiful turbinate shape of their flowers. It is a creation by Michel Adam dating back to 2006. Grafted on a stem, it has a characteristic habit with a compact crown. Its flowers are double, 12 to 14 cm (5 to 6in) wide, slightly flattened. The robust prickly branches bear healthy foliage, reddish when young, becoming dark green and glossy. Its disease resistance is good under adequate growing conditions. The flowers are solitary, carried by long and sturdy stems. The plant is leafless in winter.

This 'Léo Ferré' Standard Rose, with its tree-like silhouette and large brightly coloured flowers, will find its place in the centre of a large rose bed, as a standalone feature in a well-maintained garden, in a row along a pathway, or even in a container on the terrace. It pairs perfectly with shrub roses and pretty and easy-to-grow perennials such as perennial geraniums (Geranium Blue Cloud, Anne Folkard, Nimbus, Orion), bellflowers (lactiflora, rapunculoides), catmints, snapdragons, foxgloves. Its flowers can create cheerful bouquets, with fern foliage, for example.