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Souvenir
de la Malmaison
Beluze,
1843
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Souvenir de la Malmaison is one of the most beautiful of
Old Garden Roses. It is a beautiful
light pink to white Bourbon Rose. The
blooms are very full, 4 to 5 inches across and quartered with a lovely scent. The blooms start out deeply cupped with pale
pink petals that turn to white as they mature.
The foliage is glossy, medium to dark green on a thorny stems. The plant
is low and spreading in nature (3’ high by 4’ wide), and it takes 1-2 years to
become established. There is a climbing
version (Bennett, 1893) which grows 8 to 12 ft tall and takes about three years
to get established and then grow so vigorously.
It was the climbing version that I received when I ordered Souvenir de
la Malmaison and I kept on wondering why it kept on sending these long
canes. I finally moved it next to an
arbor and was very happy there. It gave
plenty of blooms but the blooms tend to ball (not open) on wet weather making
the very full blooms into a brown unappealing mush. The rose will outbloom most hybrid teas as
long as it does not get rained out.
Souvenir de la Malmaison is eligible to win the Dowager
Queen or Queen of Old Garden Roses at a rose show. Old Garden Roses are those introduced before
1867, many of which have a fascinating history.
Souvenir de la Malmaison is a Bourbon rose, so named for the island
where the first Bourbons originated. Ile
Bourbon is an island in the Indian Ocean off of Madagascar, now called Reunion
Island. The French colonial landowners
in the early 1800s set off their properties with large hedges of roses,
alternating the native China roses with a Damask Perpetual. A hybrid rose appeared that caught the fancy of the landowner and
avid gardeners in France. Both seeds and
cuttings of this original plant were brought to France and bred. The descendants of these roses are the
Bourbons.
Souvenir de la Malmaison means remembrance of Malmaison,
named for the gardens of the Empress Josephine (wife of Napoleon Bonaparte) at
Chateau de Malmaison. Josephine was a
devoted gardener and grew more than two hundred varieties of roses, among
thousands of other plants. Souvenir de
la Malmaison was named for her dedication and though it was bred some years
later after her death, it is grown at Chateau de Malmaison today.
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