Old Rose Types - A Guide On Old Roses

Felicite Parmentier

The origins of this delicate beauty are completely unknown. It first appeared in about 1836 and ever since has captivated with the opulence and delightful fragrance of its flowers, which open in June from large clusters of yellowish round buds above the leaves. The pale, blush-pink flowers develop from almost globular shells to a grand flat, almost creamy-white rosette, in which the inner corolla is closely folded, producing a sort of green eye at the center of the flower. What we have here is a merging of styles, a quality typical of quite a number of Old roses. Flowering is so long and luxuriant that the canes tend to bend over and therefore must be supported.

MME PLANTIER

'I like to look at it in moonlight,' Vita Sackville-West wrote of ''Madame Plantier', 'It glows besides the old apple tree like a pear-shaped ghost.' She had planted a 'Madame Plantier' to climb into an apple tree in her garden; eventually it grew until it was 14m(46 feet) around.At first creamy-white and later pure-white flowers appear in great clusters from pointed, rose-red tinted buds at the end of long, almost prickle-free canes hanging over, and needs support to give it shape. As a climber, too, it needs to be firmly secured. Its loose growing pattern and long canes would tend to suggest that this is no pure ALBA rose.

'SEMIPLENA' is another white Alba rose that was very popular as long ago as the Middle Ages. It is a powerful shrub rose growing to nearly 2m, which produces a rich display of fragrant, half-full flowers followed by large red hips.

KONIGIN VON DANEMARK

Many regard this as the most beautiful of all the Alba roses. It was created in 1816 in the Flottbek nursery of the Scots-born James Booth as a seedling of 'Maiden's Bush', When in 1826 he first included it in his catalogue, he dedicated it to Princess Marie Sophie Friederike of Hessen-Kassel, the consort of King Frederik V1 of Denmark. This should come as no surprise.

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