Rose Arthur de Sansal

Old rose ‘Arthur de Sansal’ has a very noble, rich color of crimson-purple, very full, fragrant flowers that adorn a compact, harmonious rose plant with beautiful, deep green, healthy foliage all summer. This rose favors a warm, dry climate. From summer to autumn produces large, densely filled with petals, full, highly fragrant flowers of a color between dark raspberry and reddish-purple with a pale reverse and raspberry inner petals aging to purple-violet. ‘Arthur de Sansal’ is very fragrant. Forms low and compact plants.

Description.

A low growing, compact, upright bush with beautiful, abundant foliage and somewhat scattered repeated blooming. The flowers are medium-sized 6 – 8 cm (2.75"), full (26–40 petals), and appear in small clusters. The flower shape is initially cupped and later flat, rosette, sometimes quartered rosette. Neat in shape, very full, dark raspberry-purple flowers have lighter shades on the back of the velvety petals. The flowers are arranged in a rosette, with a short peduncle, so that the flowers appear to sit directly on the leaves. They have a rich, fruity fragrance.

A compact rose about 90 cm in height, with upright growth, prickly stems, and a large amount of rich green foliage. Very freely blooming, which is repeated throughout the summer. The plant is compact 90 - 120 cm (3–4 feet) in height and of about the same 90–120 cm (3–4 feet) in width, upright, with prickly stems with pinnate light green leaves.

The leaves typically have 7 leaflets, ovate in shape, the edges are serrated, leathery texture and have medium green or light green color. Young leaves are red-brown, marbled, with red-brown reverses. Upright, stiff shoots with several medium-sized red thorns and a small number of small prickles.

Rose variety ‘Arthur de Sansal’ is excellent for pots and borders, in group plantings and mixed borders it can form a beautiful flower bed.

Requires watering during drought.

Disease resistance is average – requires preventive spraying with fungicides.

Frost resistance is good – USDA zone from 4b to 9b.

Scipion Cochet was an amateur breeder from Brie. He named the rose after the amateur gardener and breeder Arthur de Sansal, who was a plant collector and an enthusiastic amateur breeder from Melun, south of Paris, France, and the son-in-law of Depre.

Robert Arthur Sanson de Sansal (1820, Paris—1874, Dammarie-lès-Lys or Farcy), a rose enthusiast-breeder, was the brother of Colonel de Sansal. On March 30, 1848, Arthur de Sansal married Caroline-Francine Desprez (1819, Maisons-Alfort - 1917, Paris), the daughter of breeder Jean Desprez.

This rose originated as a seedling of the Hybrid Perpetual rose “Géant des Batailles” by Nérard, 1845.

USDA 4 and warmer