Rosa Jubilé Papa Meilland 'Meiceazar' - Standard Rose

The RNA Standard Rose Jubilee Papa Meilland is particularly perpetual and remarkably fragrant. It offers large classic roses, with a perfect curve, in a fiery red shade with vermilion hues, and with a very beautiful spicy and sweet fragrance. The plant blooms abundantly and regularly, on beautiful dark green foliage that is resistant to diseases. With its very neat small tree silhouette, it deserves a prime location in the garden or on the patio.  Its roses, carried by long stems, are also perfect for creating scented bouquets.

Standard roses are obtained by grafting a variety (here the Jubilee Papa Meilland bush rose) onto a single and upright stem belonging to a different rose (Rosa canina, R. laxa or R. multiflora), the graft being done at a certain height, here at 90 - 100 cm (35 - 39in) from the ground. In very cold regions, it may be useful to protect the rootstock in winter.

The Jubilee Papa Meilland rose Meiceazar is part of the complex family of modern hybrid teas, also called large-flowered roses. It is a creation of Meilland dating from 2015, awarded several times internationally. This variety received the Perfume Award and the Silver Medal in Le Roeulx in 2014, the Hradec Králové Certificate in 2016, and the 2nd International Prize of the City of Nantes in 2018. It is a bush rose with good vigour. Grafted on a stem, it shows a characteristic habit, with a thin and upright 'trunk' bearing a semi-globular crown. The young shoots and young leaves of this variety are coppery red. The mature foliage is dark green, and fairly disease resistant. However, it can be sensitive to black spot disease in humid and confined situations. The foliage colour perfectly enhances that of the flowers. This rose blooms from June to October, abundantly and regularly as long as it does not lack water or nutrients. Its turbinate roses, 12 cm (5in) in diameter, are solitary and carried by long and robust prickly stems. Each one is composed of 45 petals of intense red colour with vermilion hues. Their fragrance reveals notes of geranium, carnation, and white peach. The plant is leafless in winter.

This Standard Rose Jubilee Papa Meilland, with its elegant habit, shining roses, and sweet fragrance, is ideal in the centre of a bed of light perennials, along a pathway, near the patio, isolated in a well-maintained small garden, or in a large pot on the balcony. Its red colour is easy to match with all kinds of flowers in the garden. For example, you can plant penstemons, chamomiles, perennial salvias, catmints, or tall baby's breaths next to it to lighten it. A groundcover composed of silver basket or lady's mantle will perfectly enhance it. Its cut flowers, with good durability, are perfect in bouquets.