Let's take a look at this beautiful rose: We are talking about a climbing Tea with the same growing power as Souvenir de Mme Leonie Viennot. The more you prune the more vigorous she gets with plenty of shoots. This sounds very non Tea like but she's one of the few exceptions to the rule as many climbing Teas and Teas in general don't like hard pruning at all.
Up to 4 meters easily or 12 feet which makes her suited for almost any climbing purpose. Ranging from arches, pergolas, very big obelisks or even fruit trees. I've read she's extremely beautiful when she can cascade from a wall. The rose is very thorny! When you prune hard she will react with tall arching shoots so be careful
Flowers are big and up to 9cm in diameter. They are full, light pink with deeper pink towards the center. They slowly turn very light pink with aging. Petals drop cleanly. Fragrance is moderately Tea with Bourbon
This rose really does bloom in flushes and every flush has a good amount of flowers. From late spring to mid fall the flowers keep appearing.
A friend of mine says this rose doesn't seem to bother about shade, not even deeper shade, she always blooms.
There has been a lot of speculation about the parentage and Mme Lambard has been suggested as a parent but that's pure guessing.
As a climbing Tea she definitely needs a minimum of Zone 7b and higher and probably 8b to be sure. Flowers are rain and heat resistant as she can withstand summers in the Veneto, Emilia Romagna and Umbrian regions
If you want to purchase this wonderful and mysterious found rose you can get it from:
Novaspina (Italy)
Angel gardens ( USA)
Burlington roses ( USA)
NOTE: Novaspina doesn't list it on their website, you have to send an email and ask for it
