This is the lovely Mme Isaac Pereire, a heritage bourbon rose from the 1800s bred by a young French garden labourer, who named it Blessed de La Salle. It won first prize at one of the Paris Universal Exhibitions and was later sold to Margottin Fils who re-named it after the wife of a famous financier. In 1882 he entered it in Botanical Society of the British Isles competition and it won another prize.
This rose is an awkward grower but if you train the laterals horizontally she will put on a spectacular show for you. She's a voluptuous beauty and probably the most fragrant rose of all.
Anna Aspnes
AP Love Letters paper (altered)
AP Elysium
Countryside
AP Amaranthine word art
AP Authentic silver button
