Rosa x floribunda 'Rochemenier Village' - Standard Rose

The 'Rochemenier Village' Standard Rose delivers a radiant and uninterrupted flowering from late spring until late in the season. Its beautifully curved roses adopt different shades of apricot, peach, orange, and pink. Subtly fragrant, they evolve throughout the hours but are exquisite at all stages of their blooming and perfectly highlighted by very healthy foliage of a beautiful dark green. This variety, which pays tribute in the most beautiful way to the troglodyte village not far from Doué-la-Fontaine, is excellent from all points of view!

Standard roses are obtained by grafting a variety (here the 'Rochemenier Village' bush) onto a single and upright stem belonging to a different rose (Rosa canina, R. laxa or R. multiflora), the graft being performed at 90-100 cm (35-39in) above the ground. In very cold regions, protecting the rootstock in winter may be useful.

The 'Rochemenier Village' Frycalm (also marketed under the name Britannia, Daybreaker) is a creation by Gareth Fryer (UK), dating back to 1998. This rose won first prize at the Most Beautiful Garden Rose competition during the Rose Days in Doué la Fontaine in 2002. It has a thin, upright trunk with a well-branched globular crown. The thorny stems are covered in abundant, healthy, deciduous foliage, with large leaflets in a beautiful satin dark green shade. The rose blooms repeatedly from May until October-November. Its flowers are a good size for a floribunda rose, measuring 8 to 10 cm (3 to 4in) in diameter and formed by 17 to 25 petals. They are pink to orange towards the centre and fade as they mature, revealing soft nuances of peach, apricot, and tender pink. The plant loses its foliage in winter.

This Rochemenier Village Standard Rose will find its place in the centre of a large rose bed, isolated in a well-kept garden, aligned along a pathway, or even in a container on the terrace. It pairs perfectly with white roses and pretty easy-to-grow perennials such as perennial geraniums (Geranium Blue Cloud, Anne Folkard, Nimbus, Orion), bellflowers (lactiflora, rapunculoides), catmints, blue or mauve asters, snapdragons, foxgloves... Plant this rose above a romantic flower bed with mauve roses like 'Blue Girl' and 'Mamy Blue' or with the white corollas of 'Winchester Cathedral'. Its roses are great for bouquets.