Rose Impératrice Eugénie

This compact Moss rose starts with small deep pink buds, moderately covered with moss, but opens into a large rose pink flowers with silver undersides. The average diameter of the flower is 8 cm (3"), they are full and quertered in form. Appears on a plant mostly singly.

This is once flowering rose and it blooms on the previous year's branches, it is very likely that its first spring will have few or no flowers. But it will then better give you all its exuberant flowering the following spring. For its maintenance, it is advised to prune it lightly after flowering in the summer, and give it a simple form pruning: remove any dead wood, weak and inward branches. The young branches will develop for the rest of the summer and fall for flowering the following year.

This rose dedicated to the wife of Napoleon III in 1856.

Information about the parantage of this rose is not available or commecrically protected.

USDA 6