Rosa Ibiza - Hybrid Tea Rose

The 'Ibiza' or 'Intercomanje' bush rose brings a pleasant touch of exoticism to the garden, with its large double flowers in warm and fruity tones that evolve throughout the day while exuding a sweet fragrance of tea rose. It is a not very tall but floriferous and healthy variety, which will be perfect for creating large flower beds or beautiful flowering pots, remarkably colourful from late spring until frost.

'Ibiza' or 'Intercomanje' was registered in 2006 by Dutch rose breeder Interplant. It is a modern bush rose with large flowers and a bushy and compact habit. It reaches about 70 cm (28in) in height and 50 cm (20in) in spread at maturity, with a fast growth rate. This rose produces thorny branches that bear abundant foliage, composed of large dentate leaflets, glossy and dark green. Throughout summer and until October, if faded flowers are removed, the plant continuously produces large double flowers (11 cm (4in)), globular and turbinate, composed of 50 petals. Initially bright orange in buds, the flowers open to orange-red, then lighten to creamy white edged with pink, around a golden yellow centre. The flowers are solitary or grouped in twos or threes, and they are produced at the end of long shoots from the current year or emerging from 2-year-old stems. The foliage of this variety is relatively resistant to diseases under good growing conditions. Deciduous, it falls in autumn and regrows in spring.

This 'Ibiza' rose allows for beautiful borders, planted en masse along the edge of the terrace or in large, vibrant flower beds. Combine them with light blue or white flowers: perennial flax, salvias, catmints, panicled baby's breath, or even bronze fennel, whose feathery foliage will calm its flamboyant flowering. Planted in groups of 3 plants, this 'Ibiza' rose will form a beautifully coloured bush. Also, combine it with white ground cover roses (Swany, Marie Pavie), chamomiles, or light ornamental grasses such as Stipa (barbata, pennata, tenuifolia). Plant it in a summer-coloured flower pot with marigolds or even gaillardias.