Rosa Ville de Fontenay-aux-Roses

The Rosa 'Ville de Fontenay-aux-Roses'® Oralivi is a boxwood that combines the charm of old roses with the qualities of modern roses. Its large peachy pink, turbinated flowers at blooming, unfold on a heart arranged in quarters, the plant has a well recurrent blooming until autumn and it stands out for excellent disease resistance. Its roses, all in softness, with shell tones and a light fragrance, are wonderful in a vase. This magnificent variety settles in the garden of course, but also in a large pot on the terrace or balcony. 

The Rosa 'Ville de Fontenay-aux-Roses' has been introduced recently to the market by the Orard rose gardens, a family business located in Feyzin, not far from Lyon. It is part of modern large-flowered roses, also known as Tea hybrids, as evidenced by the turbinated shape of its flowers. This variety was named in honour of the town of Fontenay-aux-Roses, with a rich history in roses. Rosa gallica officinalis, the apothecary rose, appeared towards the end of the 16th century in Fontenay-près-Bagneux. The intensive cultivation of this rose will make the reputation of this village which will be renamed Fontenay-aux-Roses around 1649. 

'Ville de Fontenay-aux-Roses' is a reblooming rose, that flowers from June to October, in successive waves, if the soil remains somewhat fresh. The plant forms a bushy, slightly upright shrub, with rapid growth. It will reach about 90 cm in height by 50-60 cm in width. The flowers are 10-12 cm wide, composed of 60 to 35 petals. They are solitary or grouped in 2 or 3. Their colour is a soft pink with salmon undertones and their scent is subtle. The foliage, fairly dark green, matte, resists diseases very well and perfectly enhances the colour of the roses. Deciduous, it falls in autumn and regrows in spring.

This 'Ville de Fontenay-aux-Roses' rose will find its place in the garden in a large rose bed, in a group of 3 to 5 plants, or isolated in a well-kept small garden. This variety adapts particularly well to growing in a large pot, allowing rose enthusiasts without a garden to enjoy its charm on the terrace or balcony. The plant adapts to all soils not too dry and all climates, tolerating both cold and heat, which allows it to be welcomed without reservation from north to south of our country, even at medium altitude. It pairs perfectly with pink, mauve, salmon, white roses, pretty plants very easy to grow like perennial geraniums (Geranium Blue Cloud, Anne Folkard, Nimbus, Orion), bellflowers (lactiflora, rapunculoides), catmints, love-in-a-mist, foxgloves, phlox...  Its flowers allow for creating tender and nostalgic bouquets.