Rosa Belle Romantica

The Belle Romantica Rose is a hybrid that will charm lovers of old roses while possessing the qualities of modern roses. It seduces with its plump flowers that open in quarters, in a soft and warm ocher pink colour. This creation from Meilland also shows a very good resistance to diseases and a strong reblooming character. The sturdy and generous bush has won several competitions. Plenty of reasons to adopt it in a romantic flower bed or a small garden. Create beautiful bouquets with its pastel flowers that exhale a sweet fragrance of May Rose!

Belle Romantica® ('Meigapencey') is a modern bush rose with large flowers launched by Meilland in 2014. This beautiful variety won the Perfume Award in Orleans in 2014 as well as the Best Grand Flowers Rose Award and the Perfume Award in La Tacita in 2014. It is a small bushy and upright shrub that reaches about 80-90cm (32-35in) in height with a spread of 50-60cm (20-24in) at maturity. It has rapid growth. It produces strong, thorny and well-branched branches that bear elegant foliage, of a semi-matte green colour, with low susceptibility to diseases. From June to October, if faded flowers are removed, the plant produces very beautiful 11cm (4in) diameter flowers, semi-globular in shape, reminiscent of old-fashioned roses. They are composed of 65 petals and open to reveal a quartered heart. Their colour, pinkish on the periphery, is warmed by pale ochre in the centre. They are grouped in small bouquets of 2 to 5 units at the end of long shoots from the current year or emerging from 2-year-old stems. Their fragrance is of a fairly light intensity, more or less noticeable depending on the time of day and the climatic conditions.

Belle Romantica®, romantic and feminine, is a perfect rose for nostalgic flower beds and bouquets, or planted among low perennials such as violets, perennial geraniums, dwarf asters or aubrietas for example: they will hide its slightly bare base after a few years. With its modest size and dense habit, it is suitable for container gardening and is ideal for planting in groups of 3. It fits well in flower beds of low shrubs with summer or autumn flowering, or mixed with light annuals such as love-in-a-mist for example. In an Italian or French-style garden, it will be highlighted in front of a boxwood or yew screen or surrounded by a miniature hedge.