Imagine a Gloire de Dijon flower but on steroids: Big, baroque, silky, glossy blooms in stunning pastels and a soft Tea fragrance varying with the temperature. The blooms can come in small clusters of three or there's only one flower per stem
Growth is sturdy, rather upright and doesn't look Tea-ish but more like a Hybrid Tea. A very distinctive feature is the color of the stems: It's dark red/dark green. Foliage is large and glossy dark green. Our Baronne can reach 150 X 90 cm or 5X3 feet
I planted her in my garden in spring 2024 and yes she grows upright with dark red wood. Her buds were rather oval 🏉 to Ball shaped. Her first flush came during a very wet intermezzo and those thick buds didn't manage to open properly. The petals are so thin they really can't stand getting wet. As always, the most beautiful roses come with an attitude..
Her second flush was in August 2024 and we had sunny, hot and most importantly dry conditions. Now she was showing me her real beauty with big, waxy, full blooms in a stunning color. All was forgiven.
Zone 7b to 10b, drought and heat resistant. Hates wet weather, needs full sun. Don't prune
The "Snoy" family was Flemish/Dutch nobility. They moved to current Belgium in the eighteenth century. In 1902 a member of the Snoy family became a minister of Belgium and Luxemburg (which formed a unity at the time)
Two last pictures are from her first flush
Notice the dark red stems
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