Bev said that 'Marie Nabonnand' flowers all year, is nearly thornless, never seems to get black spot, has never been sprayed, and has not...Read More had any fertiliser as yet, but will do so soon. She has a medium sized carmine-red double flowered rose with a sweet damask fragrance. For some time she was known and sold as 'Monsieur Tillier' by Peter Beales, UK. Apparently, Clement Nabonnand originally named this rose 'Phillipe Petain' after Clement’s friend, Marechal Petain. Unfortunately Marechal was old and a little senile by 1941, and collaborated with the Germans, becoming a traitor to France. Towards the end of the war Clement renamed this rose after his second wife, Marie Nabonnand, but he never advertised it in his catalogues under this name.
Bev said that 'Marie Nabonnand' flowers all year, is nearly thornless, never seems to get black spot, has never been sprayed, and has not...Read More