Rosa rugosa Angelia® White - Rugosa rose

The Angelia® White rose is a vigorous, bushy shrub ideal for creating a flowering hedge or a large shrub border. With its semi-double white flowering, delicate fragrance, robust foliage, and decorative orange-red fruits, it is full of charm. Part of the Formidable Plants range, this rose will delight lovers of natural, low-maintenance gardens. It withstands cold, wind, and poor soil perfectly.

Rosa ANGELIA® White 'Minrugo2w' was developed in 2018 by the French nursery Hortival Diffusion and introduced shortly after by Pépinières Minier. Like other cultivars in the ANGELIA® series, it belongs to the horticultural group of Japanese roses, renowned for their exceptional hardiness and natural adaptation to the most difficult conditions: strong winds, intense cold, poor or dry soil, and even seaside conditions. This cultivar is also labelled Fleurs de France, which attests to its responsible, quality production method.
The Japanese rose ANGELIA® White develops a compact, balanced, bushy habit and dense branching, giving it a neat yet supple silhouette. At maturity, it forms a bush 1.50 m to 2 m tall and 1 to 2 m wide. Its stems are endowed with fine thorns, typical of the rugosa type, and its green young shoots emerge vigorously in spring. This rose is also characterised by the production of suckers, which allows it to spread and thicken naturally. Its flowering renews from June to August-September, in successive waves. The semi-double, pure white flowers open into a corolla around a cluster of golden-yellow stamens. With a diameter of 6 to 8 cm, they emit a light and pleasant fragrance. They stand out elegantly against dark green, thick, veined, and leathery foliage, which retains a healthy and decorative appearance throughout the season. In autumn, this foliage takes on golden tones before falling. After flowering, ANGELIA® White offers generous and ornamental fruiting. Numerous round, shiny, orange-red hips appear from late summer and persist on the bush until winter. These decorative and edible fruits adorn the garden in the cold season and provide a food source for birds. This variety shows a natural tolerance to the main fungal diseases of roses, such as downy mildew or black spot, and therefore requires no treatments. 

Japanese roses perform well in poor soil or under difficult climates; they are robust and very reliable shrubs. Adaptable and undemanding, Angelia® White fits effortlessly into an informal hedge, a well-ordered border, or a wilder display. It is as comfortable by the seaside as in a country garden. It is a variety with discreet charm, luminous, enduring, and decorative for a good part of the year. You can pair it with other Japanese roses, with viburnums (Viburnum opulus) and coloured stem dogwoods. Its fruits, with the pips removed, can be used to make jellies and marmalades that are tasty and rich in vitamins.