A rose with beautiful flowers, fragrance and a remarkable history, the Peace Rose has won countless admirers around the world. Renowned for its large blooms and symbolic meaning, it has received many awards and, decades after its release, remains one of the finest roses you can grow.
This rose is a Winner of the All-America Rose Selections award and is one of the world’s best-selling roses. With its long and strong stems it is very good for cut flowers, repeat flowering and yes, it can be grown in pots. – Look for a pot that is around 50 deep and 50 cm in diameter as this give the plant the space it needs to develop a strong root system
Quick Facts
- Botanical name: Rosa ‘Peace’
- Type: Hybrid Tea Rose
- Height: 1.5–2m
- Width: 1–1.5m
- Flower colour: Soft yellow with pink to red flushed edges
- Fragrance: Light to medium fragrance
- Position: Full sun
- Flowering: Repeat flowering from spring through summer and often into autumn
- Best for: Garden beds, cut flowers and available in a climbing form
History
Released by Meilland in 1945 the Peace rose is a hybrid tea rose, vigorous, tall growing and one of the most famous roses of all time.
Large yellow flowers blushed with pink to red on the edges, available as a climbing rose which well suits its growth habit
This is also a fragrant rose. Glossy deep green foliage and a history that intrigues. The rose was bred in the 1930s by Francis Meilland as seedling 3-35-40 and originally named Rosa ‘Madame A. Meilland’.
With the invasion of France apparent to all, Meilland decided to save this rose, he sent cuttings to Italy, Germany and Turkey and it is those that reached Robert Pyle of the Conrad Pyle Co in the United States that were later named Peace.
Care and Planting your Peace rose
With a little deadheading you will have flowers from spring right through summer, so this is a task well worth carrying out.
Best grown in a position in full sun or at least 6 hours of good sun a day and a well drained soil, water your new plant well the day before planting and you are ready to plant.
- Weed the area well and dig the soil over.
- Dig in some well rotted compost and aged cow manure.
- Prepare a planting hole the same depth that the rose was in the container.
- Gently remove the plant from the container.
- Place in the planting hole and backfill.
- Water in well with a liquid seaweed fertiliser.
- Lightly mulch around the plant.
- Water deeply as the soil dries over the first spring and summer.
We suggest using a general purpose rose food such as Sudden Impact for roses with an application every 8 weeks from early spring through summer. Regular seaweed fertiliser application will also help keep your Peace Rose Bush flowering freely.
Where To Buy
Bare rooted and potted. Old World, David Austin, Bush & Standard Roses. Over 400 varieties available by Mail Order.
www.magicgardenroses.com.au
One of Australia's leading Rose suppliers. Large range of Bare root rose plants available for delivery Australia wide from June to August. For Rose care information and to order online visit our website.
www.treloarroses.com.au
400 Galston Road, Galston NSW 2159
Huge range of potted roses available all year - weeping, standards, climbing, groundcover, bush, David Austin, Smooth Touch, Old World, New Releases. Rose Garden Design Service.
www.greeneroses.com.au