Rosa Belle du Seigneur - Hybrid Tea Rose

The 'Belle du Seigneur' is a modern hybrid tea rose with generous, colourful, and sensual clustered flowers, named after Albert Cohen's famous novel recounting the story of an admirable seduction. This bush can continuously produce masses of double and turbinate flowers, with shades of ochre and bronze enveloping a tightly packed copper-coloured heart that gradually turns pink on the periphery. Not very tall but resilient, the bush develops dark stems and elegant dark green foliage, which compose a beautiful setting for the flowers. From summer to autumn, they never cease to seduce in a cloud of relatively light but delightful fragrance. This flower is an ornament for the garden and a treasure for homemade bouquets!

'Belle du Seigneur' or 'Delocabri' is a modern bush rose with large clustered flowers obtained by Delbard in 1993, but it was only commercialised in 2001. This variety, also known as The Midlands Rose, forms a beautiful bush with a bushy and compact habit that reaches approximately 70 cm in height with a 60 cm (24in) spread at maturity, with rapid growth. It produces strong branches of a very dark green colour that carry elegant, glossy forest green foliage, which is not very susceptible to diseases. Throughout the beautiful season and until the doors of autumn, if faded flowers are removed, the plant produces numerous buds that open into large two-tone flowers, tubular, typical of modern hybrid tea roses. They are grouped in bouquets of 3 to 5 at the end of long shoots from the current year or emerging from 2-year-old stems. The repeat flowering is also distinguished by a pronounced fragrance, that is always pleasant. Note that the flowers of this variety are very long-lasting on the bush and in a vase.

This 'Belle du Seigneur' rose, with its modest growth, warm and soft colour, and delightful fragrance, is ideal in a pot on the terrace, in a bed of roses or light perennials, or as a standalone plant in a well-maintained small garden. It is also perfect for use in large borders, where it dramatically impacts when planted in groups of 3 specimens. For example, it can be associated with tender pink, white, or even mauve roses, white or pink paniculate phlox, red penstemons, dame's rocket, blue to violet-blue or fuchsia pink shrubby sage, as well as silver foliage (Artemisias, silver ragworts) or dark foliage from boxwoods, Distylium (x) Blue Cascade, cotoneasters. Its cut flowers, with good endurance, are naturally perfect in bouquets.