Old Garden Rose, Centifolia Rose 'Cabbage Rose'

This is not a cultivar, but a class of old rose hybrids that includes many cultivars. It was cultivated in Iran in ancient times, and int...Read Moreroduced to Europe via the Netherlands in the sixteenth or early seventeenth century.

The highly fragrant flowers range in color from white through varying shades of pink to purple and maroon. They are densely packed with many petals, often quartered, and the form tends to be cupped to flat.

Flowers occur all in one flush in late spring/early summer, with no repeat later in the season. In hot climates flowering may be continuous.

Habits tend to be lax and drooping, with open spiny growth usually to 4-5'.

Most people today, hearing "cabbage rose", imagine spherical incurved flowers like those of the hybrid perpetuals, depicted by Tenniel in his illustrations of Alice Through the Looking-Glass. But these centifolia roses open cupped to flat.

This is a shrub, not a bush.

AKA
• Cabbage Provence
• Centifolia
• Common Centifolia
• Common Provence
• Gul-i sad-warg...Read Morer /> • Gul ssudburuk
• Hundred-Petalled Rose
• Kohl-Rose
• Old Cabbage Rose
• Ordinaire (Centifolia)
• Provence Rose
• R. centifolia
• Rosa centifolia L.
• R. gallica centifolia
• Rosa gallica var. centifolia Regel synonym
• Rosa X centifolia
• Rose a Cent Feuilles
• Rose Chou
• Rosier a cent feuilles

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The woman who we bought this farm from called this the Thousand Petals rose, a misnomer for a centifolia or hundred petals rose. It has ...Read Moredeep pink buds that open to 2 inch blossoms with a very sweet spicy scent and 130 petals. It grows to 4 feet.