|
|
'Félicité Parmentier' rose Reviews & Comments
-
-
|
I’ve never seen a single hip on Felicité Parmentier before. Amazingly, this year I got two hips with seeds when I pollinated it with Lynnie. It will be very interesting to see if any germinate.
|
REPLY
|
-
-
|
This rose has one of the strongest fragrances of all roses. Blooms are small, but moderately abundant. The center tends to have a creamy pink color upon the creamy/white edges. Fragrance is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, amongst 400 or so other roses I have compared it against.
|
REPLY
|
Reply
#1 of 2 posted
19 APR 11 by
Hardy
|
Since fragrance is always contentious -- different noses give different results -- I'll throw in my impressions.
Out of several hundred roses smelled, there are a few others I'd place first for strength of scent... maybe 3 or 4. Several more she would approximately tie with. For fragrance *quality* it would also make my top 10 list, it smells wonderful. While many of the other top roses boast rebloom, most of the other contenders are sprawling or climbing roses, often quite thorny, and a few of them get huge. Some are sickly, or require lots of full sun, or aren't very cold hardy. Felicite Parmentier has none of those vices, making it a pretty safe bet in even a tiny garden, or in a pot.
So while I won't crown her the absolute fragrance queen, she might be the closest thing that's compatible with your lifestyle. Give her a sniff yourself, if you can.
|
REPLY
|
Reply
#2 of 2 posted
10 SEP 18 by
 AGBTG
|
Curious, what would your other contenders for top strength and quality be? I have yet to find anything stronger than rugosas. Being in a room with them can be nauseating and migraine aggravating. But from a distance their sweet smell draws you in like a moth to the flame.
|
REPLY
|
-
-
Initial post
15 JUN 14 by
Leene
|
I really love this rose. I got her as a tiny 9-inch band in 2012, and she was so inert the first year I thought I was going to lose her. She didn't bloom at all in 2013, but shot out three big suckers. Even though my garden was ravaged by blackspot, she never got any diseases, and the insects left her alone.
This year she's blooming like a champ! Her flowers are like tiny pink cabbages that can stand up to sun and rain better than any other rose I grow. I regret planting her in such an ugly spot, because she's worth much more than that. I wouldn't mind another if she weren't so hard to find!
|
REPLY
|
-
-
|
This summer, I became this rose from Aurelija. I planted it and a few month later, while cultivating the soil, I discovered, that it makes long stolones (suckers?). I'm curious if it will behave like Kim and Margaret described Charles de Mills' behaviour. (That one too will be in my gardensoon, for I ordered it at Loubert, before I knew about its invasive habit: Oh my!)
|
REPLY
|
|
