Rosa Nostalgie - Stem Hybrid Tea Rose

A magnificent rose for bouquets or the garden. The 'Nostalgie' Rose stands out for the perfect shape of its turbinate flowers, its fragrance and delicate colours, in an elegant harmony, with cherry red-edged petals enveloping a delightful cream heart, with a delicious fragrance. It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful perpetual varieties, flowering from June until the first frost. The foliage is healthy, highly resistant to diseases. With a medium size, it is suitable for the back of perennial borders and will easily blend into a flowering hedge.

This bush with a rather upright habit reaches alomst 90 cm (35in) in all directions, with rapid growth. Its foliage and vigorous young stems, adorned with large brown thorns, emerge in a reddish bronze colou before turning a fairly dark green shade. It is remarkably healthy. From June to the first frost, if faded flowers are removed, the compound flowers with 40 petals, measuring 8 cm (3in) in diameter, emerge from cherry red buds, then gradually open to reveal a tightly packed cream centre within a cherry red-edged corolla. They are solitary or grouped in clusters of three

This 'Nostalgie' Rose forms a small bush, ideal for planting as a solitary specimen. It integrates well in borders, or mixed with light perennials and annuals such as paniculate gypsophila, paniculate phlox, or love-in-a-mist. It will be beautifully showcased in front of a boxwood or yew screen, or, on the contrary, surrounded by a miniature hedge or a carefully organised maze, as in Italian or French gardens. It is also, above all, a magnificent rose for creating lovely and romantic bouquets.

Bred by Tantau in 1996.