Rose Encyclopedia

Cardinal de Richelieu

Cardinal de Richelieu is the darkest of all Gallica roses, bearing fully double, velvety blooms of deep crimson-purple that mature to extraordinary violet-slate. This compact, near-thornless shrub flowers once in...

Cardinal de Richelieu

Cardinal de Richelieu is the darkest of all Gallica roses, bearing fully double, velvety blooms of deep crimson-purple that mature to extraordinary violet-slate. This compact, near-thornless shrub flowers once in...

Tuscany Superb

Tuscany Superb is a magnificent dark gallica rose with semi-double, velvety crimson-maroon flowers that appear almost black in shadow, dramatically contrasted by brilliant golden stamens. Selected by Thomas Rivers before...

Tuscany Superb

Tuscany Superb is a magnificent dark gallica rose with semi-double, velvety crimson-maroon flowers that appear almost black in shadow, dramatically contrasted by brilliant golden stamens. Selected by Thomas Rivers before...

Charles de Mills

Charles de Mills is widely considered the finest gallica rose, producing enormous flat-topped blooms packed with over 100 petals that evolve from deep crimson through purple to violet. Its mysterious...

Charles de Mills

Charles de Mills is widely considered the finest gallica rose, producing enormous flat-topped blooms packed with over 100 petals that evolve from deep crimson through purple to violet. Its mysterious...

Rosa gallica 'Officinalis' (Apothecary's Rose)

Rosa gallica 'Officinalis', the Apothecary's Rose, is one of the most historically important roses in Western civilization, cultivated since the Middle Ages for its intensely fragrant, deep-pink semi-double flowers whose...

Rosa gallica 'Officinalis' (Apothecary's Rose)

Rosa gallica 'Officinalis', the Apothecary's Rose, is one of the most historically important roses in Western civilization, cultivated since the Middle Ages for its intensely fragrant, deep-pink semi-double flowers whose...

Rosa gallica 'Versicolor' (Rosa Mundi)

Rosa Mundi (Rosa gallica 'Versicolor') is the world's most famous striped rose, a 16th-century sport of the Apothecary's Rose with breathtaking crimson-and-white irregularly striped petals where no two flowers are...

Rosa gallica 'Versicolor' (Rosa Mundi)

Rosa Mundi (Rosa gallica 'Versicolor') is the world's most famous striped rose, a 16th-century sport of the Apothecary's Rose with breathtaking crimson-and-white irregularly striped petals where no two flowers are...

Rosa woodsii (Wood's Rose)

Rosa woodsii, Wood's Rose, is the definitive wild rose of the American West, thriving from the Great Plains to the Pacific Coast in conditions from desert streambanks to alpine meadows....

Rosa woodsii (Wood's Rose)

Rosa woodsii, Wood's Rose, is the definitive wild rose of the American West, thriving from the Great Plains to the Pacific Coast in conditions from desert streambanks to alpine meadows....