The flowers open a deep cerise-magenta-purple, acquiring violet to slaty violet-gray tones as they age. This is one of the bluest of rose...Read Mores. Very double, with many rolled petals in flat closely packed rosette form, sometimes quartered. Very fragrant.
A slender, erect bush with neat leaves.
Drought resistant and shade tolerant. Disease resistant.
Even Graham Stuart Thomas wasn't certain if this was a centifolia/Provence or an old French Gallica rose, but he listed it as the former. There may be several different roses with this name.
The flowers open a deep cerise-magenta-purple, acquiring violet to slaty violet-gray tones as they age. This is one of the bluest of rose...Read More
AKA
• Belle Évêque
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• Bishop Rose
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