Over 50 tightly packed stiff petals unfold slowly from the pointed buds. At first showing a perfect, high centred hybrid tea shape that develops into a full antique rosette shaped bloom. The colour is a white overflown with a light touch of magenta deepening at the edges, finally revealing a purple magenta in the centre of the blooms. The blooms exude a delicious strong scent. These smallish flowers appear mostly on candelabra type stems and the medium high bushes compete easily with the floribundas or as a foreground plantings. It definitely will attract attention growing in a pot or planted in a prominent spot.
Floribunda Roses Floribunda roses have clusters of blooms in every colour of the rainbow. Through crossing with Hybrid teas, great improvements have been made in flower formation, while still retaining their vigour and freedom of blooming. They are superb border plants, giving wonderful colour and fragrance from October to June.