A Peace Rose - Preston
I took an afternoon stroll in the spring sunshine the other day, and I walked past this beautiful Peace rose, bursting forth in the well maintained original garden of a stylish 1930s Art Deco clinker brick villa. Reaching for the blue sky, and bathed in spring sunshine the brilliant red and white bloom was too beautiful not to photograph.
The owner saw me photographing her roses and came out to chat. This rose has been in the garden since 1963. She then proceeded to cut me a few blooms to take home, since rain was forecast the next day (which did eventuate) and they would have been ruined by the change in weather.
The Peace rose, formally Rosa 'Madame A. Meilland', is a well-known and successful garden rose. By 1992, over one hundred million plants of this hybrid tea had been sold. It has large flowers of a light yellow to cream color, slightly flushed at the petal edges with crimson-pink. It was developed by French horticulturalist Francis Meilland between 1935 and 1939. When he forsaw the invasion of France by Germany, he sent cuttings to friends in Italy, Turkey, Germany, and the United States to protect the new rose. It is said that it was sent to the US on the last plane available before the German invasion, where it was safely propagated by the Conard Pyle Company during the war. The rose was originally named 'Madame A. Meilland', in honor of Francis' deceased mother, Alain Meilland's wife Claudia, however after the war more enduring name would be "Peace".
Melbourne has experienced a colder and wetter than average winter this year, which is now bleeding well and truly into a wetter and greyer than average spring, however on the rare sunny days we are currently getting, the showing of flowers and blossoms is beautiful.
A Peace Rose - Preston
I took an afternoon stroll in the spring sunshine the other day, and I walked past this beautiful Peace rose, bursting forth in the well maintained original garden of a stylish 1930s Art Deco clinker brick villa. Reaching for the blue sky, and bathed in spring sunshine the brilliant red and white bloom was too beautiful not to photograph.
The owner saw me photographing her roses and came out to chat. This rose has been in the garden since 1963. She then proceeded to cut me a few blooms to take home, since rain was forecast the next day (which did eventuate) and they would have been ruined by the change in weather.
The Peace rose, formally Rosa 'Madame A. Meilland', is a well-known and successful garden rose. By 1992, over one hundred million plants of this hybrid tea had been sold. It has large flowers of a light yellow to cream color, slightly flushed at the petal edges with crimson-pink. It was developed by French horticulturalist Francis Meilland between 1935 and 1939. When he forsaw the invasion of France by Germany, he sent cuttings to friends in Italy, Turkey, Germany, and the United States to protect the new rose. It is said that it was sent to the US on the last plane available before the German invasion, where it was safely propagated by the Conard Pyle Company during the war. The rose was originally named 'Madame A. Meilland', in honor of Francis' deceased mother, Alain Meilland's wife Claudia, however after the war more enduring name would be "Peace".
Melbourne has experienced a colder and wetter than average winter this year, which is now bleeding well and truly into a wetter and greyer than average spring, however on the rare sunny days we are currently getting, the showing of flowers and blossoms is beautiful.