Website/Catalog  (12 May 2022)  Includes photo(s).
 
Minerva  (Vissancar) - Floribunda Bush Rose
Fabulous displays of burgundy buds open into very attractively shaped ruffled edged purple and deep lilac blooms with silver toning, white centres & gold stamens. Fantastic strong fragrance. Strong upright stems, each producing great numbers of flower in large trusses of up to 40 blooms per stem. A fabulous plant with very healthy olive matt foliage. Also available as a Half Standard rose adding height to your borders or central bed.  Fragrance: Strong   Bush Rose Average Height: 3-3.5ft / 90 - 110cm
 

Magazine  (Jan 2020)  Page(s) 11.  
 
2004: Minerva® (VISancar)

Website/Catalog  (2010)  Includes photo(s).
 
Translation: June 13, 2010 Christening of the rose 'Minerva'...was developed exclusively for Lions Antwerp Minerva by Martin Vissers. He was inspired by the colors of the Lions International emblem: blue and gold. You can see this clearly when the thick, double purple-blue roses of Rosa “Minerva” are completely open and she shows a wreath of golden yellow stamens. The intense purple blue is particularly beautiful, fresh and combines well with other roses and flower shades. The unique color and a pleasantly sweet perfume are the result of 10 years of cross-breeding and careful selection. Rosa “Minerva” is a healthy spray rose with full flowers that forms an approximately 80 cm high shrub that flowers profusely throughout the rose season.

Minerva (VISancar) Sharon's Love x Marie-Louise Velge. The bluest rose? What a fragrance! Fragrance award in Saverne and Madrid.