Creator: Jacques, France, 1828Origin: SempervirensRosebush x “Old Blush”
Flowers: 4 cm
Height: 5 m
This beautiful and vigorous rose, is the most popular hybrids of Sempervirens, produced by Jacques Antoine. The flowers are of a pink color when they open that later on go into a mix of ivory and pure white. The petals are small and numerous, and arranged in a rosette form, around a heart button, which gives each flower a nearly perfectly shape. The flowers appear in large groups of twenty and forty, among the small dark leaves. The scent is musky. The strong but flexible branches are covered with large thorns and are ideal to develop into arcs or pergolas
People often think that the word "perpetual" means continuous flowering. But this is not true, especially since this "Sempervirens" is a unique flowering rosebush. What Jacques Antoine intended to invoke was two saints of early Christianity, Vivia Perpetua and Felicitas, her black slave, who lived in Carthage, then territory dominated by Rome that were martyred in the year 203.
