Rosa 'Peirre de la Ronsard' - Standard
Common name(s): 'Peirre de la Ronsard' Standard
Plant Properties
Standard Leaf Properties
Elliptical,
Oval,
Pinnate / Imparapinnate 
Glabrous,
Glossy
Glabrous 
Entire,
Serrate 
Concave,
Concave ribbed 
Reticulate 
Alternate & Spiralled 
Acuminate Broadly 
Obtuse 
Petiolate Bark / Stem / Culm Properties
Wood Fibres / Solid 
Terete Flower Properties
Craterform 
Obovate 
Solitary 
Bud - Double-conic Fruit Properties
Pome 
Obovate,
Obovoid 
Smooth Seed Properties
Achene 
Fusiform Root Properties
Fibrous 
Fibrous Soil Properties
Water logged,
Moist 
None Other Properties / Uses
General Notes
The cultivar was created by Marie-louise Meilland in France 1985 as part of the Renaissance Collection. Large old style double rose blooms are carmine-pink on the inside and cream on the outside with a light to moderate fragrance. In 2006 it was selected as the'World's Favourite Rose' the highest title a rose can be granted. Introduced as a climbing rose. This is 'standard' form but it requires a lot of pruning to maintain its shape and a red flowering form.
Propagation Notes
Bark Grafting
Root Stock Plant:- Ensure the root stock plant is strong and vigarous and is suitable for the soil and condition that the finished rose will be required to grow in. Measure the length of the stock plant stem for the standard, and allow another 200 - 300 mm then cut off square at the top, at the required height. Remove a few lower leaves and thornsfrom the required stndard height o make it easier to work with.
Scion:- From current seasons firmwood stem cutting with buds showing. With a budding knife, carefully, slice down the stem, just above the bud, to just below the bud and remove the oval shaped bud and attached bark. If any wood is attached to the back of the bud, carefully prize free. Drop prepared buds in a bowl of sterile water to keep moist.
Root Stock Plant:- With a budding knife, at the standard height required, carefully make a small slice / split down the stem approximately 15mm long and then a small horizontal cut across the stem to form a 'T'. With the back of the budding knife, carefully prize the bark away from the woody stem, to allow for the scion material to be inserted.
Scion Material:- If the bud is not the same size as the prepared slit in the root stock, trim a little of the bark off or enlargen the 'T' split. Carefully slide the bud down into the 'T' slit and ensure the flaps of the 'T' close around the bud nicely. Tie one end of a length of budding tape to the stem of the stock plant, just below the split in the stem. Holding the split together firmly, wrap the budding tape tightly up the stem, up around the bud, to just above the split, onto the root stock material, overlapping the tape all the way up. Tie off the budding tape and cut off the excess.
Once the graft has taken, the top growth is cut off just above the inserted bud / s and removed, leaving the new inserted buds to grow on.
Normally this is done with the root stock in beds insitu, to be dug up in a couple of seasons for sale.
If done on potted root stock, place outside in a protected area.