Grande Dame™

2011 Intro

(cv. WEKmerewby) PPAF

Hybrid Tea - Super saturated rose pink

Everything old is new again…or is it the other way around?  Here’s a clean mean flowering machine whose big bountiful beauties reek with old rose romance, style & fragrance.  Each lovely blossom invites you to bury your nose…to swoon from the perfume of the ‘old time’ roses of your dreams.  A big vigorous ‘shrubby’ bush whose nodding clusters, abundant deep-green leaves & low-thorned cutting stems provide a perfect touch to a landscape or bouquet.

  • Height / Habit: Tall/Upright & bushy
  • Bloom / Size: Full, old-fashioned, in nodding clusters
  • Petal count: Over 30 broad petals
  • Parentage:Meredith x Wild Blue Yonder
  • Fragrance: Intense old rose
  • Hybridizer: Carruth - 2011
  • Comments: A modern antique for all climates.
Grande Dame™