Delbards latest rose creation is part of their colourful Couture Collection. This extraordinary double rose has intense deep blood-red colourings with beautifully fluted, outward curved petals which age to a deeper rouge, almost black.

These petals are very tough with a velvety feel, and as the blooms finish their show, will self-clean and completely drop off the plant. This will leave a neat clean plant to pull its energy into re-flowering again.

Repeat flowerings and grows as a neat rounded shrub to about 1.2 metres. It’s blooms are carried in clusters evenly over the shrub en-masse like all great floribunda.

Named after one of France’s most famous singers of the 20th Century.

The Couture Collection Roses make an unabashed colour statement – dazzling colours, purity of shape as well as lushness, extravagance, passion, personality and vigour – the very spirit of the French garden.