Rosa Pascali - Hybrid Tea Rose

Rosa Pascali, created by rose breeder Lens in 1963, has a captivating gentle scent of tea rose and perfect white flowers with ivory highlights, delicately shaded with cream at the throat. This modern rose has wonderful, medium-sized blooms that would resemble porcelain flowers if their thick texture and excellent vase life didn't contradict this apparent fragility. This shrub rose is a harmonious, vigorous, and healthy bush, supported by strong stems and adorned with tough, shiny, dark, and elegant foliage. This incredibly elegant rose is a multiple-award winner and a fabulous cut flower.

'Pascali' is a modern shrub rose with large flowers related to hybrid tea roses. Perhaps the best white in its category, this rose has been included in the World Federation of Roses (WFRS) Rose Hall of Fame, which brings together the 16 best roses in the world! This vigorous shrub has a harmonious and erect bushy habit, reaching about 1.10m (4ft) high with a spread of 80-90cm (32-35in) at maturity, with rapid growth in rich and moist soil. It produces strong and upright thorny branches that carry an elegant foliage composed of large, dark green leaflets with toothed edges. Under good growing conditions, this foliage is resistant to rose diseases. Throughout the summer, if faded flowers are removed, it will have semi-double flowers, 6 to 7cm (2 to 3in) in diameter. They consist of 26 to 35 slightly reflexed petals that open into flowers typical of modern hybrid teas. White dominates the flower, which pales as time goes by. Its centre is animated by a warmer glow, a very soft creamy yellow. The flowers are solitary, borne at the end of long new shoots or on 2-year-old stems. Their fragrance is rather light, characteristic of tea roses. The abundant flowering extends from June until the first frost.

Pascali, with its splendid flowers and delicate fragrance, is a perfect flower for bridal bouquets and romantic arrangements. In the garden, plant it in a bed of light flowers or in groups of 3 as a focal point, surrounded by silver baskets, perennial geraniums, and catmints. It is medium-sized, upright but not stiff, and blends well in summer or autumn flowering shrub beds, or mixed with light perennials and annuals such as crambe, paniculate phlox, or tall foxgloves. Roses of all colours will go with it, from white to very dark red, orange and mauve. It can be enhanced by a boxwood or yew hedge, or surrounded by a miniature hedge or a carefully organized knot, as in Italian or French gardens. Above all, it is a beautiful, simple rose that can be placed near the house and cut for the vase.

Bred by Lens (Belgium) in 1963.