Rosa Mamy Blue - Hybrid Tea Rose

The 'Mamy Blue Rose' (Delblue), a modern hybrid tea, undoubtedly offers the 'bluest' rose in the Delbard collection. This bush rose, perennial and floriferous, offers large, beautifully tubular, mauve-blue flowers, which are uncommon and look wonderful in flower beds and bouquets. Their powerful 'blue' rose fragrance is penetrating, almost addictive. Adorned with ample glossy green foliage, this upright bush provides magnificent flowers that last 10 to 15 days in a vase!

'Mamy Blue' or 'Delblue' is a modern bush rose with large clustered flowers obtained by Delbard in 1991. Like all so-called 'blue' roses, this award-winning variety is also distinguished by a magnificent fragrance. 'Mamy Blue' forms a bushy and upright shrub, a bit rigid, and reaches about 90 m (295ft) in height and 60 cm (24in) in width at maturity, with rapid growth. It produces green, sturdy, thorny and well-branched branches, which bear ample foliage of a fairly deep and glossy green. Throughout the summer, if faded flowers are removed, the plant produces successive waves of large dark red buds that open into very beautiful 10 cm (4in) diameter flowers, whose perfect shape, deep and tubular cup opening onto a very tight core, is typical of hybrid tea roses. They are composed of 35 to 40 mauve-blue petals, leaning more or less towards pink depending on the nature of the soil, gracefully fringed. They are clustered in bouquets and carried at the end of long shoots of the year or emerging on 2-year-old stems.

This 'Mamy Blue' rose is in the same vein as Charles de Gaulle, Sissi, Waltz Time or Claude Brasseur, with which it can compose a very pretty flower bed with a thousand shades of pink-mauve-blue enhanced by some bush sage or penstemon in shades of pink to fuchsia red. It will find its place in the garden of any flower lover, whether a novice or an experienced gardener. With its retro charm and beautiful fragrance, it deserves a graceful setting and a place not far from the house. Some light-flowering perennial plants (Autumn Asters, foxgloves, penstemons), grasses, lavenders and nepetas, are ideal for enhancing its beauty and accompanying it late in the season. For example, marry it with a red or garnet rose (Charles de Mills, Papa Meilland, Roseraie de l'Haÿ, Hansa); their colours and fragrances create a beautiful symphony. With a little daring, you can also try the combination of mauve and soft orange or yellow with a rose like Danaë or Lady of Shalott. Simple and easy-to-grow perennials such as Geranium Rozanne, Geranium Pink Cloud, Nepeta Walker's Low and campanulas will accompany it for most of the summer. It looks good on its own or in a group of 3 plants and a large pot on your patio or balcony. Its flowers make beautiful romantic bouquets in the company of pink peonies and white lilacs.