General Schablikine - Tea Rose

Creator: Nabonnand, France, 1878
Flowers: 8 cm
Height: 1,75 m


"General Schablikine" is arguably one of the best known Tea roses that in the past had a great success in southern France and Italy. Its scented flowers are of a bright pink cherry color and emerge solitary or in groups of two to five throughout spring and summer. The shrub is erect and covered with dark green foliage. General Schablikine was a hero of the Crimean War (1854-1855) who later assumed important functions at the political level.