Pictures of Verschuren

It looks lovely for a hybrid tea, but I don't have it here in my garden... they sell some nice roses on that link you put up, which is my local nursery in fact, really not far from me... I should go visit more often than I do... I hope you enjoy your rose...

The variegated leaves are certainly interesting and different. I had a lovely time scrolling through the roses the nursery offers, some familiar but many different. How I wish we could order roses from overseas!

It doesn't look very Hybrid Tea-ish to me, maybe because it's so old. It's supposed to be a seedling of Souvenir de la Reine d'Angleterre, an 1855 Hybrid Perpetual. It reminds me a little of the Floribunda style Bourbons like Madame Dore or Souvenir de St. Anne's.

I wish, too, that we could get roses from overseas. This one was harder to find on this side of the Atlantic.

It looks like even the sepals can be variegated:

(More nursery pics)

It does seem an odd classification, but it seems to be so designated across the board...

I love the blooms, but I'm not sure about the foliage.. it would take getting used to I think..

I love these older HTs! I love the oddballs also. I wonder how it is for BS?

Is this from RVRs?

I think know what you mean Malorena. For a while I might have to keep telling myself, "It's not virused. It's supposed to look like that." But maybe not for long since I think the foliage is pretty.

I, too, am wondering about BS, vaporvac, since that would definitely spoil its looks. RVR carries it, but they were out of stock. It doesn't seem like their out of stocks come back very often lately, and I didn't want to wait, so I ordered from Glasshouseworks. Expensive!! So I really do hope I love it.

I've never heard of glass how it works something else to look up.

Glasshouseworks.com. They're a nursery specializing in mostly rare or unusual plants. If I remember right, they're especially known for their collection of heirloom coleus. I just read a note that they specialize in variegated plants as well, which explains why Verschuren is on the very few roses they carry.

That's ringing a bell now I'll have to check my notes and put that down. Thank you

bellegallica, your picture of the rose makes it look more beautiful and special than the catalog photo. It really has a pretty conformation, although I suspect it may not last very well, especially in the heat.

HI Ingrid,

I wish I could take credit for those, but they're both nursery pictures. The first is from the Style Roses website, and the second is from a nursery in the Netherlands:

Belle Epoque roses

I think you're right. Kim's comment, too, makes me think it doesn't last long in the heat. Hmm. Maybe I should have posted this question BEFORE buying??? :-)