Rosa rugosa Angelia Eglantine - Rugosa rose

Rosa Angelia® Eglantine combines natural robustness, generosity, and charm with undeniable talent. Its large purplish-pink flowers with a light fragrance bloom successively for several weeks against bushy foliage that takes on superb orange hues in autumn. Its abundant and long-lasting decorative hips enliven the garden until winter. This large, vigorous bush excels in an informal hedge. It withstands cold, wind, and poor soils admirably.

The Angelia® Eglantine rose or Rosa rugosa 'Minrugo1e', was developed in 2018 by the French nursery Hortival Diffusion and introduced in 2019 by Minier nurseries. It is a bushy shrub belonging to the horticultural group of Japanese roses (Rosa rugosa), renowned for their hardiness and adaptation to difficult conditions such as wind, drought, cold, or poor soils. This cultivar benefits from the Fleurs de France label, a guarantee of quality.
The Japanese rose Angelia® Eglantine has a dense, well-branched habit that gives the plant a structured yet not stiff silhouette. At maturity, the bush reaches between 1.50 and 2 m in height with a spread of 1.20 to 2 m. Its stems bear fine, flexible thorns, typical of Japanese roses. The young shoots are green and develop rapidly from spring. The generous and prolonged flowering lasts from June to August, sometimes with a repeat in September. The slightly fragrant, large single to semi-double flowers, measuring 6 to 8 cm across, display an intense purplish-pink colour with fuchsia and magenta highlights. They are beautifully set off by the dark green, veined, thick, and slightly glossy foliage. In autumn, this foliage takes on beautiful orange tones before falling. After flowering, the plant produces numerous red, shiny, edible hips, sought after by birds, which remain on the bush until winter. Angelia® Eglantine shows excellent resistance to common rose diseases, such as downy mildew and black spot: it requires no treatments.

Japanese roses perform remarkably in poor soils or under harsh climates; they are robust and very reliable shrubs. Angelia® Eglantine is a floriferous, powerful yet natural rose that colours the garden for 9 months of the year. It can be integrated into a bocage, informal, or country hedge. It can be paired with other botanical or wild roses, with Cotinus for autumn colours, or with fragrant mock oranges. Its fruits, once the pips are removed, can be used to make jellies and marmalades that are as tasty and rich in vitamins.