This is one of the more popular roses among those who love old roses.
The 3" flowers are white, sometimes faintly blushed ...Read Morewith pink, and superbly fragrant. Up to 150 petals. Flat form with a button eye. It does not freely shed the petals of old flowers, which turn brown and require deadheading.
Blooms once yearly on old wood only.
It is naturally large (to 15' tall) and vigorous, and should only be planted where there's enough room for it to attain its natural shape, as injudicious pruning can impair the next season's flowering and destroy its naturally graceful architecture. Few prickles.
Highly resistant to blackspot. Shade tolerant.
This is not a hybrid china rose. Its parentage is uncertain, but this is widely believed to be a hybrid between a noisette and an alba rose. That seems highly unlikely, as witness its extreme hardiness and the absence of certain chemical components in its fragrance. This is an alba rose, or possibly a hybrid between an alba and R. moschata.
Having learned the hard way, I plant only hardy, disease resistant roses that can take high humidity and extreme heat without succumbing ...Read Moreto black spot--the nemesis of OKC rose growers. MP has earned its keep with abundant fragrant blooms and disease free foliage. Happy in morning sun and filtered mid day and afternoon sun, sheltered from north winds, it is doing well situated between a magnolia and an elm in the driest area in my yard. I planted it last year and it bloomed like crazy. This year, in spite of a very hard winter, it has tripled in size and is covered in buds. What a winner!
This tends to suffer some disease and there isn't much fragrance for me, but I love this rose and photograph it throughout the blooming s...Read Moreeason.
Even had another small show of flowers, later in the summer, last year. Maybe will happen again?
Tends to grow tall - 6ft tall and sometimes wide. Usually thornless, Mme Pl...Read Moreantier has mat, gray-/or/blue-green leaves and clusters of delicate, petite, creamy white flowers; flowering only once and usually in Spring.
Like other Albas, Mme Plantier is shade tolerant. They are supremely hardy of all old garden roses; doing well in adverse conditions, survives with some neglect, thrives well with poor soil and resists desease and other problems.
This Madame Plantier rose was already in my garden for years when I bought the house. It was approx. 8 -10 ft. high with a fountain shape...Read More. It is nearly thornless & exceptionally fragrant. Blooms once for a long period of time. Very hardy & thrives under difficult conditions, even partial shade. Almost completely disease-resistant & requires little pruning. I only pruned it back to 5-6 ft. this winter to make it bushier, but do not plant on pruning it again.
It smells wonderful!
This is one of the more popular roses among those who love old roses.
The 3" flowers are white, sometimes faintly blushed ...Read More
Having learned the hard way, I plant only hardy, disease resistant roses that can take high humidity and extreme heat without succumbing ...Read More
This tends to suffer some disease and there isn't much fragrance for me, but I love this rose and photograph it throughout the blooming s...Read More
The best smell a rose can have, absolutely stunning, delicious!!!!
Information regarding Alba Rose; Mme Plantier.
Tends to grow tall - 6ft tall and sometimes wide. Usually thornless, Mme Pl...Read More
This Madame Plantier rose was already in my garden for years when I bought the house. It was approx. 8 -10 ft. high with a fountain shape...Read More