Tom's Rose Garden

Louise Odier
(Margottin, 1851)

I bought this Bourbon from MEA Nurseries in the spring of 1997. I transplanted it into a pot and will wait to put it into the ground until the weather permits transplanting. I hear nothing but wonderful things about this rose. It's big camellia-like flowers look beautiful in the pictures I've seen.

"A superb and vigorous Bourbon shrub up to 6 ft. Flowers soft, warm pink, sometimes shaded with lilac-pink, double, a round flower sometimes described as camellia-shaped, scented. Mid to late June but recurrent throughout the summer.� The Dictionary of Roses by Gault & Synge