Tom's Rose Garden

Madame Isaac Pereire
(Garcon, 1881)

This Bourbon has fat, cabbage-like flowers with a heavy, perfumy fragrance. My two-year old plant is fairly spindly, and has been affected by blackspot. I have been pretty good about spraying, so it still has much of its foliage. It has not re-bloomed since its early summer flush, but is supposed to. Maybe this fall. I bought this rose, along with Madame Hardy, Königin von Dänemark, La Reine Victoria, and Reine des Violettes, from Wayside.

"A very vigorous Bourbon shrub or pillar rose, up to 10 ft., making very stout thorny shoots of up to 6 ft. in a season. Sometimes grown pegged down over an area, but weeding below can be very painful. Flowers very large, double and very full, showing quartering when mature, deep pink or rose madder, sometimes with slight purplish tinge, up to 5 in. across, strongly scented. Mid to late June and recurrent, flowers in clusters. Frequently the best flowers are obtained from autumn-flowering in September. A luscious, sumptuous, almost blowsy beauty which can be very effective in the garden." The Dictionary of Roses by Gault & Synge