This is the rose named Marianne. My husband bred this rose here on the property in 2001. It is a hybrid Gallica, a twenty-first century version of an old garden rose normally associated with the eighteenth century or earlier.

The scent is as strong and fruity as its mix of colors implies.

As a shrub, it grows to about two meters tall and four meters wide. It blooms only in the spring.

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