Wow great Meilland roses Sara Ann! Winters been a lot less drab here getting to to see all the rose pics everyones posting!

Sara, Michelangelo is rather impressive! Wonder if my taste is shifting from the classic HT form to the more nostalgic??

My Meilland roses are:

Black Baccara bred by Jacques Mouchotte of the House Meilland. This is my DH's favourite rose - has performed well and in my garden, not overly plagued by disease as rumoured

Bonica 82 - can only recommend this one - lives up to its reputation!

Cumba Meilandina - new

Deborah (Playrose) - great rose, quite vigorous but no scent

Eddy Mitchell - planted bare root spring 2015, didn't do much but has stunning blooms

Peace (aka Gloria Dei) - no comments required

Jardins de Bagatelle - planted in summer 2015, great scent and no problems so far

Mainauduft (aka Peter Mayle) - planted summer 2015. Somehow missed taking pictures of this one but it has large blooms and a strong perfume. Also no problems health-wise.

Marie Curie - can recommend this one. Healthy, with lots of scented blooms which last quite well in the vase.

Red Leonardo da Vinci - not that prolific for me but healthy. To my nose, not scented.

Terracotta - I just love the colour on this rose. Planted bare root in spring 2015 so it still has to prove itself.

Sharlene

I don't have a lot of Meillands, but I do like the ones I have very much.

Eden climber

Easter Basket (floribunda)

Peter Mayle (HT)

Elle (HT)

Sara, I've told you before how much I adore your Peace rose--the most beautiful rose ever, in my opinion--but Michaelangelo and Charles de Gaulle are wonderful too (even if Charley is stingy with the blooms!). Have you noticed that my Easter Basket sometimes picks up coloration very similar to Peace's?--though EB tends to go pure white in hot, hot weather, unfortunately.

Kate

Kate, love Eden! Just wish I had more space for some climbers! Glad you posted PM - your pic really shows the size.

Sharlene

Okey dokey... some of my faves!

ACROPOLIS - love this rose! I consider it amongst the "oddball"roses due to it turning such weird colors (which I love), including a very pure green if you let it go for several weeks. Plant is around 3½-4ft x 2½ft.

BOTTICELLI - A virtual blooming machine. Almost always loaded with singles or clusters of lovely ruffly lt pink blooms. It's about 3ft x 3ft. Love it!

CHARLES DE GAULLE _ One of the best lavenders. Mine stays pretty small, about 3ft x 2ft. I love the subtle dusty lavender tones. If I recall, I believe it has a nice scent. (I don't really keep track of that unless it really stands out) Great rose anyway!

EDDY MITCHELL - I fell in love with this rose when I saw it on the Meilland website several yrs ago. Figured I'd never see it here in the USA. Then suddenly Armstrong Garden Center intro'd it under the name GARDEN DIRECTOR BARTJE MILLER, and I was so excited, but I knew I couldn't get it because there's no Armstrongs in NorCal. But then, Star Roses brought it in as DARK NIGHT. I am so happy to have this rose now. Gotta be one of the most unusual and interesting roses I've ever seen. Right now, this poor thing is waiting to get in the ground. This spring I hope to get more of my new beds done, and this one will be the star attraction in a bed of maroon/burgundy and light yellow roses.

ESTELLE - Love the rust and yellow! She gets around 3-4ft x 3ft. Hard to capture that unusual color accurately. It's a rose you really have to see in person to fully appreciate. And probably an improved version of LEONIDAS.

JOHANN STRAUSS - A gorgeous light pink rose that when it has these clusters just makes you want to swoon! Unfortunately, mine is planted on the outer perimeter of our fence on the west side, and I have so many underplantings that have overgrown, I need to unbury this poor thing, along with dozens of other roses out there. The last few yrs I just haven't had the time. This photo was from several yrs ago when the beds were clean! It peaked about 2½-3ft x 3ft.

LEONIDAS - The first of the rusty roses in the florist vein. It never truly looks as good as it does from the florist tho. Only in the colder temps does it get the darker mauvey-rust color. Most of the time it's a fluorescent orange and bright yellow. But, it's ok. I still enjoy it... when it does bloom. Not really a great repeater, unfortunately.... which leads me to believe it's more of a cold weather rose in general. Mine's around 2½ft tall and maybe 2ft wide. Not a real great one here, but I still like it just for the novelty.

MANOU MEILLAND - She's a lovely hot pink rose that really stands out. Almost lost her twice. She's hanging on nicely now, but taking her time to get a decent size. Averages about 2ft x 2ft.

MEILLAND DECOR ARLEQUIN - This is one of those crazy roses that gets all speckly looking sometimes in the early spring. I love it. It's been in a big ceramic pot for yrs. Needs to get in the ground. It was an ownroot from Vintage Gardens, so it's really grown into its own. Reaches waaaay over 6ft, or more, if I let it go. It doesn't have a real great repeat, but I'm thinking maybe I need to try hard pruning it after it blooms. Maybe that would encourage more blooming. Could be it needs outta that pot tho, too. Very interesting rose. After the speckles, it's a hot red-pink with yellow reverse. Big blooms too.

SUNNY LEONIDAS - another in the LEONIDAS strain. I love the brilliant orange and yellow blooms. They also get some weird splotchy white blending in between the orange and yellow, which I like. Makes it glow. Best repeater of the Leonidas roses. Stays rather short, as they all do, about 2½ft x 2ft.

I also have another one related to LEONIDAS... TERRA COTTA. It's about as short as the rest of them, and not a great repeater, like its mama. But I love those oddball colored roses, so it stays as well. And I also had the GYPSY LEONIDAS florist rose, which was a raspberry-maroon with pale yellow reverse... but it died a couple yrs ago.

Beautiful roses everyone. Dear lord I gotta go find Johann Strauss. Its breathtaking. Love it. Judy

They don't seem to like my environment very well, but like a lot of people I have

Peace

Thanks everyone for sharing your Meilland roses, there are some real beauties! Sharlene, you have some lovely ones! Black Baccara is very dramatic looking, I've been wanting a really dark red and it's between it, Dark Desire and Black Magic. My taste in roses is changing too. I will always love the classic Hybrid Teas, but I also realize how much the other, more old fashioned looking roses add to the overall look. Kate, I love everyone of your Meilland roses, they are so gorgeous! I'm totally in love with Eden and Elle! Yes, Easter Basket does remind me me of Peace, it's lovely. Beth, love yours too! I totally agree with Judy, Johann Strauss is gorgeous! Mossy, that's a lovely picture of Peace, one of the prettiest I've seen!

I've got a couple.

Peace-----I have this in the garden at work. I spray so this rose stays big and healthy all the time. Working at the News Paper Office, we get a lot of traffic. People are always saying they remember this rose from their parents or grandparents home. The old timers love this rose and are asking me all the time where they can get a decent bush of it.

Dark Night, Eddy Mitchel, Garden Director Bartje Miller-----What ever name you want to call it, I love this rose. I got mine from Edmunds several years ago when they let a few go out by mistake (oops!). When I saw the color of the bloom in the catalog I figured it might benefit from afternoon shade. If left out in the full sun all day, the bloom looks pretty bad. But with afternoon shade, not only is the bloom flat out beautiful, the foliage is deep, shiny green. It has survived 3 VERY nasty winters for me. I've got 2 more on order from Edmunds for this spring.

Thank you, Ken.

Can't believe I forgot another favorite Meilland HT, Francis Meilland. Even though so far I do not get a huge number of blooms, it is a beautiful fragrant rose on a healthy bush and is improving as far as bloom production. The blooms are always flawless.

I have several Meilland roses, but one I would like to mention is Sunshine Daydream. It is a yellow grandiflora. This spring it had some eye-popping quality flowers, but did little the rest of the season. I think it was because of a late freeze setting it and most of the others back. However, I would mention that it seems to have above average disease resistance because when I have been lax in my spraying, it still remained clean.

I have a number of Meilland roses including Peace, Charles de Gaulle,Johann Strauss aka Sweet Sonata and Jardins de Bagatelle. To add to these I have Spirit of Peace ( Paul Ricard) and Rouge Royale (Fathers Love)

Cannot capture a decent photo of RR on the iPad. The colour always looks washed out. It is a gorgeous rose and love the perfume.

Melodye

Bustopher, Someone posted a picture of their Sunshine Daydream rose bush awhile back, I think it's a beautiful rose and I hope Regan Nursery has it available still, that's one I really want! Melodye, Spirit of Peace looks lovely, need to learn more about that one. Reds can be so frustrating to photograph, when I get a decent picture of one, I feel very lucky! I do think Rouge Royale is a beautiful rose too.

Beth--as usual, you have so many lovely roses. I'm particularly taken by your Charles de Gualle and Dark Night, as I've mentioned before on other threads, but Johann Strauss is new to me--and I really, really like it!

And Mossy--such a wonderful photo of Peace. But then, she is so photogenic (and desirable) that she looks gorgeous viewed from any and every angle!

Some of the rest of you need to get busy with those cameras this next season--look at all the roses listed on this thread--with no pics! I want to see pics of all of them next summer--d'ye hear! : )

In some respects, Meilland often seems to be tops in the sheer beauty of the big fat Meilland blooms it produces.

Kate

Melodye, what a gorgeous picture of Paul Ricard. It was on my last order in November but for some reason, they weren't able to deliver. I took Paco Rabanne instead: Paul is back on my wish list!!!

Kate, just for the record, the links in my post above, expect the one for Peter Mayle, are all to my own pics on HMF.

Sharlene

Here are my Charles de Gaulle, Francis Meilland and The McCartney Rose.

Another Bonica, the climbing variety, just as good as the bush form. I have six Bonica bushes and Bonica Climbing perfected the bed, climbing on the gutter near.

OK, Sharlene--you're exempt from my tongue-lashing--but I expect the rest of you to start taking pics and letting me admire them! Got it? OK. : )

Kate

Jim, your Charles de Gaulle bush picture finally pushed me over the edge. I'm going to get it this year, if it's still in stock at the places I order from.

Sara-Ann - I've always thought about getting Francis Meilland. Hmmmm?? Maybe I should. :) All of your roses are sublime. You have the touch!!! I also really love your CdG.

Mossy - what a gorgeous Peace!!! Oh my!!!

Melodye - I love the color of your spirit of Peace. How wonderful!

Kate - I love your Peter Mayle rose!! Such a stunner!!!

Beth - too many to name!! But wow!!

Sharlene - that Black Baccara - is to die for - such darkness on the red flower. Sigh.

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Meillands are my favorite roses!!

Here are mine: :)

Nicole Carol Miller

Here's a bush shot when it was young and needed to be supported.

Julio Iglesias

Here's the softer more usual look.

Ch-Ching

Pink Peace

Paradise Found - my favorite rose and my avatar

Baronne Edmond de Rothschild - new rose - hasn't done much. I'm hopeful though.

Yves Piaget

Thank you Jim, mariannese and Carol, you all have some great Meilland roses. I'm really hoping my Charles de Gaulle does good, I love the color! Carol, Meilland roses are among my favorites too. Of the roses which I have the most from the same hybridizer, Meilland, Kordes and Carruth, I have some very good ones, but none are all perfect, so I don't think I can really say. Two of my favorite roses are from hybridizers that aren't nearly as prolific in hybridizing: Tiffany (Lindquist) and Belinda's Dream (Basye). I have so many "favorites" I think it would be impossible for me to say!

I have the most of Kordes and Carruth too. :)

Carol

Carol, it always amazes me how well your roses grow in their pots! Some of mine in the ground don't look that good. Lovely collection of Meilland roses!

Kate: Yes'm - instructions noted and will be followed to the letter! ;-D lol!!

Sharlene

Thanks, Sharlene!! Most of mine don't hold a candle to the ones that you all grow in the ground, especially in quantity of blooms, but they're good enough. :)

Carol, your roses look great to me! Pictures of your bushes look like they have lots of blooms and are gorgeous, don't sell yourself short, you're an inspiration! And your enthusiasm is contagious!

Ridiculously beautiful rose pictures here! The majority of the roses that I take interest in and want to acquire unknowingly end up being a Meilland rose. Peter Mayle, Paris De Yves Saint Laurent, Yves Piaget, Peace!, these all just happen to be at the top of my wish list! I don't think I have room for the rest, but I'm really excited about growing Peace this year.

Though my favorite is Pink Peace, here's Sonia since it hasn't been show on this thread yet.

Thanks Sara-Ann!! :)

Dan - that's gorgeous!!! I didn't know Sonia was that pretty!!

Carol

Dan, your Sonia is gorgeous! Carol, years ago I had Sonia, wish I still did, it's lovely and a great cutting rose.

I felt like that about Jadis and Yves Piaget, and I finally got both of them back last year. :)

Carol

Tequila Supreme, aka Jean Cocteau likes to bloom. This summer, most of its leaves were toasted due to the heat, but it kept on blooming. It's putting on new growth now. I'm glad it made it. Here it is last spring:

Oooh!! That's lovely!! Hope it continues to improve. :)

Carol

Thanks, Carol :-)

I'm excited to have Eden shipping to me in February. I wish I had room for so many of these Meiland roses.

I grew Yves Piaget on its own roots and found it to be lacking vigor. I would try it grafted next time.

I grow Charles De Gaulle- I find it to be less than vigorous on its own roots. Nice fragrance though and pretty flowers.

Peter Mayle-

Peter grows tall and narrow, nasty thorns, flowers usually come singly, intense complex fragrance, lasts uncommonly long in vase. Nice long stems. Mine does well in part shade, but the repeat is kind of slow, it would probably be better with more hours of sun.

Rouge Royale-

Wish I had a better picture. When fully open the flowers are large, flat and quartered. Lots and lots of petals. Intense fragrance, lasts very long in vase. Every year I make a pact with myself to cut every bloom off this rose and let them open in a vase because so many of them spoil instantly when left on the bush. I never do it though and end up regretting it. The color is often more Raspberry than this picture shows. Its worth growing if you love fragrance and cut flowers.

Frederick Mistral

Freddy flowers later than any of my other roses. but once he starts, he keeps putting out. Strongly fragrant, with large flowers and a large bush, struggles with thrips. Needs extra room. I've lost several over the years to winter and RRD, and I don't currently grow him.

Papa Meilland

Ooh la laaa- Papa Meilland has intense fragrance, puts out a generous amount of big deep red flowers, that hold their fragrance and blue as they age. The stems are brittle and the bush is awkward and not symetrical. I have mine planted in close groups and they look good as a mass, but they didn't look good as individuals.

Comptess De Provence- Sorry no pic, but this is a pink. A most unusual sharp fragrance, that is very hard to describe. Very thorny and nicely rounded symetrical bush, good repeat, great for cutting.

Bolero- Sorry no pic. This is a workhorse, more of a Floribunda than HT. Nicely fragrant, loose, many petalled creamy white. Low growing, rounded habit.

Ameri - That's a real stunning photo of Peter Mayle!! Exquisite!! And your PM is soooo dark and velvety!!

Carol

Hi Carol

Peter puts out a lot of perfect flowers. Usually flowers that look that good don't smell, but Peter is exceptional. Papa Meilland is not very good for show quality flowers, but I don't care, I love the color and scent.

Yes, I think Peter Mayle (wish I knew how to pronounce the last name!) is an exceptional rose too!!

I've never seen a Papa Meilland in person. I'd love to smell it!

Carol