Félicité et Perpétue
| Félicité et Perpétue | |
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| group | Sempervirens hybrids |
| origin | France |
| breeder | Jacques |
| Breeding year | 1828 |
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Félicité et Perpétue is a single-flowering rambler rose that climbs up to 6 m on a suitable support. At the beginning of the 19th century, French breeders crossed Rosa sempervirens, which is native to the Mediterranean region, with garden roses. The best known of these Sempervirens hybrids is 'Félicité et Perpétue', which Jacques bred in 1828 from Rosa sempervirens × 'Old Blush'. It blooms once in June / July. Its fragrant white flower balls, filled like a rosette, stand in umbels of 20 to 40; the shoots of the 'Félicité et Perpétue', which are only armed with a few spines, grow expansively and often bear healthy, small foliage until the next spring. Pruning is only necessary if it is growing too lush. It is hardy down to −29 ° C ( USDA zone 5 ).
Their name probably refers to the daughters of the breeder or to the two martyrs of Christian antiquity Felicitas and Perpetua of Carthage.
In 1879 in New York Peter Henderson discovered the dwarf sport 'Little White Pet', which grows only 60 cm in height and which flowers more often. While climbing sports of bush roses occur frequently, dwarf sports of climbing roses are a rarity.
literature
- Agnes Pahler: Roses: the great encyclopedia; (with 2000 varieties) . Dorling Kindersley, Starnberg 2004, ISBN 3-8310-0590-7 , page 147
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus-Jürgen Strobel: Everything about roses: use, types, practice; 42 tables . Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2006, ISBN 3-8001-4471-9 , page 26
