Gloire de Dijon (Rose)
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| group | tea rose |
| origin | France |
| known since | 1853 |
| breeder | Henri Jacotot |
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Gloire de Dijon , syn. 'Old Glory' is a climbing tea rose that was found by chance seedling in 1853 by the French rose breeder Henri Jacotot. It is believed that the Noisette rose 'Desprez à Fleurs Jaunes' × 'Souvenir de la Malmaison' , a Bourbon rose, are its parent varieties.
It is an old rose that is still often planted today with a strong tea rose scent and is sometimes traded as a tea rose, a noisette rose or a bourbon rose because of its unclear origin. 'Gloire de Dijon' grows up to 5 m high, reassembles well and is frost hardy to −23 ° C ( USDA zone 6 ).
Its densely filled flowers are slightly cupped, varying in color from beige-yellow, shimmering in the center and on the underside a little salmon-pink to gold-orange. They don't tolerate rain, but they hold up well in the vase. In the subtropical climate it blooms all year round, otherwise early in the year and then several times until the first frost. The English rose writer Graham Thomas describes it as an "epoch-making rose".
Because of its good properties, 'Gloire de Dijon' became an important source of modern roses and in 1988 the World Rose Association accepted it into the Hall of Fame of the "historical" World Roses .
Henri Jacotot
literature
- Ute Bauer: Old roses: history, use, design, care practice , page 104, FSVO: Munich 2004, ISBN 3-405-16713-2
- Heinrich Schultheis: Roses: the best kinds and varieties for the garden , Stuttgart: Ulmer 1996, page 54, ISBN 3-8001-6601-1
- Charles Quest-Ritson, Brigid Quest-Ritson: Roses: the great encyclopedia The Royal Horticultural Society, translation by Susanne Bonn; Starnberg: Dorling Kindersley, 2004, page 170, ISBN 3-8310-0590-7
