Leda - Damask Rose
Origin: France, 1827Flowers: 8 cm
Height: 1,5m
Jack Harkness wrote that "the Damask Rose is oddly mysterious.” It's true. And in the case of this rose, also known as "Painted Damask, " this evidence is confirmed.
Nobody knows who created it, where did it came from and what its genealogy. And yet, it's a rose that arouses curiosity and attraction especially for the spectacular contrast of color of its flowers among the immaculate white and bright purple.
Appearing in groups of three to seven, in the far right of the branches covered with green foliage, its fragrant flowers comes in white, very compartmentalized, with the center bud, have a few paint strokes of bright purple at the edges of the petals, with added focus on the exterior ones. If we proceed to a slight pruning after flowering, is likely to produce some flowers from July to late August.
Figure of mythology, Leda, wife of Tindaro, King of Sparta, was loved deeply by Zeus, King of Gods, who took the form of a swan in order to try to win her heart, mother of two pairs of twins, Castor and Pollux, Helen and Clytemnestra.
Nobody knows who created it, where did it came from and what its genealogy. And yet, it's a rose that arouses curiosity and attraction especially for the spectacular contrast of color of its flowers among the immaculate white and bright purple.
Appearing in groups of three to seven, in the far right of the branches covered with green foliage, its fragrant flowers comes in white, very compartmentalized, with the center bud, have a few paint strokes of bright purple at the edges of the petals, with added focus on the exterior ones. If we proceed to a slight pruning after flowering, is likely to produce some flowers from July to late August.
Figure of mythology, Leda, wife of Tindaro, King of Sparta, was loved deeply by Zeus, King of Gods, who took the form of a swan in order to try to win her heart, mother of two pairs of twins, Castor and Pollux, Helen and Clytemnestra.
