Rosa Lady Capri - Hybrid Tea Rose

The Lady Capri® rose combines the two qualities sought in a large-flowered rose: an intense fragrance and beautiful stems for bouquets. Its very double, elegantly formed roses blend soft apricot and cream around a warmer centre. They stand out clearly against dark, glossy foliage. The bush grows vigorously without becoming unwieldy. Its repeat flowering, good overall health and regular habit make it suitable for planting in a rose garden, a flower border or near a terrace.

Lady Capri® is a modern hybrid tea rose belonging to the Rosaceae family. Like most roses, it is a deciduous shrub whose foliage falls in winter in cold regions. This German creation by Rosen Tantau bears the varietal code RT 14-831. It was introduced in 2021 and then received recognition in several European competitions. In 2022, it won a silver medal at Baden-Baden, a gold medal in the hybrid tea category at Nyon, as well as the title of best hybrid tea rose and the children's prize at the Paris competition.
The plant forms an upright, well-branched bush, 70 cm to 1 m tall and 45 to 50 cm wide. Its thorny stems, sufficiently long and rigid for cut flowers, bear leaves made up of broad, dark green, glossy leaflets. Rosen Tantau rates it as highly resistant to powdery mildew and moderately, but satisfactorily, resistant to black spot. Flowering begins in June, sometimes as early as late May in a mild climate, then continues in waves until October. The buds open into very double flowers measuring 10 to 12 cm, most often solitary or grouped in small clusters. They retain a full, rounded shape as they open. The centre is a fairly rich apricot, shaded with peach and soft pink, while the outer petals fade towards cream. These colours vary with the temperature and stage of opening. The fragrance, classed as intense by the breeder, is one of this variety's main assets. The flowers last well in a vase and can be used to create generous, fragrant bouquets. Lady Capri® withstands winter in most regions, down to –20 °C when well established in well-drained soil.

In a rose garden or a border devoted to cut flowers, Lady Capri® can be planted alone or in groups of three, arranged in a triangle. The Blue Girl large-flowered rose with its silvery mauve flowers combines particularly well with apricot and cream shades, as do the pale blue spikes of Balkan clary Crystal Blue. The Café au Lait dahlia echoes their cream and peach shades from July onwards; its long stems will join those of the rose in bouquets, along with a few German chamomile flowers, for example. In a pot, Lady Capri® requires a deep container, at least 45 to 50 cm wide, with good drainage.