Rosa x polyantha Les Quatre Saisons 'Meifafio' - Landscape Rose

Rose Les Quatre Saisons 'Meifafio' has vibrant pink flowering, lively, glorious, nostalgic, and always renewed from spring to autumn. It is a landscape rose with great vigour,which is very floriferous, and highly resistant to diseases. This intrepid bush forms a wide cushion where hundreds of charming little romantic roses, in pompoms, succeed each other in successive waves, in a joyful range of pink. Forming a slightly blurry mass, often cascading, this rose will make a big impact in flower beds, over walls, as a border, or as groundcover without requiring much care.

The flowers of Rosa x polyantha Les Quatre Saisons 'Meifafio', gathered in terminal clusters, come from the polyantha rose, an ancient hybrid derived from Rosa multiflora and Rosa chinensis. This creation by Meilland, dating back to 2003, has won several awards in international competitions: the Gold Medal in Baden-Baden (Germany) in 2003, the Silver Medal in Paris Bagatelle in 2004, the La Haye Certificate (Netherlands) in 2006. It also received the prestigious German ADR label in 2003, guaranteeing excellent natural resistance to rose diseases. It is a small vigorous shrub, with a bushy and spreading habit, much wider than it is tall, carried by flexible stems. It will reach a height of about 70 cm (28in) with a spread of 1.20 m (4ft) in a few years, sometimes more depending on the growing conditions. The flowers, with a diameter of 7-8 cm (3in), are composed of 100 petals arranged in quarters, and they are particularly resistant to bad weather despite their doubling. Their color is a superb gradient from intense pink to fresh pink, from the center to the periphery. They bloom in clusters of 3 to 10 units. The plant blooms in successive waves between May-June and October, as long as there is no frost. In case of dry summer, the flowering will stop and resume only when the rains return. This variety develops foliage of a fairly light green, slightly shiny, composed of small leaflets. Deciduous, it falls in autumn and reappears in spring. Its stems bear thorns.

The Rose Les Quatre Saisons adapts to all soils that are not too dry and all climates, which allows it to be welcomed without reservation in many regions. It has slightly trailing branches that look wonderful in rockeries, on slopes, or cascading from a wall. It can also be planted in groups of three specimens, arranged in an isolated triangle on a lawn, in a small garden. Planted en masse, it will also border pathways and highlight shrub beds. It integrates perfectly with light or opulent perennial beds. It can also be integrated into a small flowering hedge composed of Japanese quinces, other ground coverroses, or Meillandecor, for example. Perennial geraniums, catmints, as well as perennial salvias, make excellent companions. Left to grow freely, this fantastic Rose Les Quatre Saisons will form a flowery dome, wildly romantic, in front of a shrub bed composed of buddleias, Kolkwitzia, mock oranges, Japanese cherry trees, or dwarf lilacs, for example.