Marie Blanche Paillé – pharmaROSA® NEONATAL rooted cutting
With its compact habit, reliable remontancy and dense, slightly glossy foliage, Marie Blanche Paillé offers professional growers a structurally balanced bedding floribunda suited to standard 2–3 L container production and classic flowerbed programmes. The double, ball-shaped flowers in refined raspberry-pink tonal shifts support a consistent retail / reseller offer built on reliable garden performance, while low maintenance needs and good resistance reduce intervention in nursery beds and urban stock fields. As an own-root pharmaROSA® NEONATAL cutting, it provides stable, renewable growth for collection plantings and show gardens, supporting homogeneous stands and low replacement in long-term park and urban green-space schemes. Its proven awards record underlines presentational quality for exhibition shrub and cut flower use, and H7 hardiness with USDA 4b performance gives confidence for Scottish and northern projects where winter exposure is significant. Over a natural development arc from root establishment in year one, structural canopy in year two and full ornamental expression in year three, this cultivar fits professional propagation workflows seeking predictable, long-lived own-root stock for thematic rose gardens and portfolio-building ranges.
Usage options
Finished-product ideas
- 2–3 L bedding floribunda line – Own-root, compact, upright bushes finished in 2–3 L containers for standard finished product ranges, built around repeat flowering, disease resistance and low maintenance – target audience/channel: retail / reseller chains.
- Urban park contract rose – Bulk-produced bushes for flower bed and urban green space use, leveraging H7 hardiness, strong disease resistance and self-cleaning for low-intervention contracting – target audience/channel: municipal and public-realm suppliers.
- Exhibition and collection series – Curated own-root stock for thematic rose gardens and collections, using the award-backed flower form and stable plant structure to support display quality – target audience/channel: show gardens and specialist nurseries.
- Landscape bedding module – Tray-to-field route for mass bedding and park plantings, focusing on uniform, dense foliage and remontant clusters to give season-long ground-level colour – target audience/channel: landscape contractors and integrators.
- Dual-purpose garden and cut rose – Specimen and bed plantings marketed for both garden effect and occasional cutting, using large double clusters and upright habit within standard container programmes – target audience/channel: garden centres and independent retailers.
Technical cultivar profile
| Parameter |
Data |
| Name and registration |
Floribunda bedding rose, collection Flowerbed rose; registered as EVEcinage, traded as Marie Blanche Paillé; ARS exhibition name Marie Blanche Paillé; honours Marie-Blanche Paillé (1876–1963). |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred by Jérôme Rateau in France (2009) for Roses André Eve; introduced and first distributed by Roses André Eve in France in 2015, with registration also completed in 2015; parentage is unknown. |
| Awards and recognition |
Recognised in major French trials: Lyon International Rose Competition Plus belle rose de France 2017; Lyon 1st prize, large-flowered category 2017; Paris–Bagatelle Certificate, large-flowered category 2017. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Upright, bush-trained, compact habit reaching about 80–120 cm in height and 70–100 cm in spread; dense, slightly glossy green foliage, moderately thorny shoots and a structure suitable for flowerbeds, parks and urban plantings. |
| Flower morphology |
Double-flowered blooms with 26–39 petals, ball to pompon shaped, produced in clusters of large L-sized flowers; remontant, with a plentiful second flowering providing extended season interest in bedding and specimen uses. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Raspberry-pink tonality: RHS 65C outer and 62C inner; buds mid to deep raspberry-pink; fades from rich pink to uniform medium pink, then soft powder pink with paler outer margins and a consistent pastel edge in full bloom. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Delicate, discreet fragrance with mild intensity; primarily valued for ornamental flower and colour display rather than strong scent; heavily double blooms partly conceal stamens, so pollinator attraction is relatively limited in typical plantings. |
| Hip characteristics |
Occasional spherical hips in autumn, around 6–10 mm diameter, orange-red in colour; may contribute modest ornamental interest but are not a primary production or marketing focus for this cultivar. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Resistant to powdery mildew, black spot and rust in typical conditions; hardy to approximately -32 to -29 °C (USDA 4b), RHS H7, Swedish zone 5; moderate heat and drought tolerance, requiring regular watering under warmer, drier spells. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Suited to flower beds, specimen planting, cut flower side-use, parks and urban green spaces; low maintenance with little intervention; supplied as bush-trained, compact own-root plants, ideally finished via standard container routes in 2–3 L pots. |
Marie Blanche Paillé Flowerbed rose EVEcinage as an own-root pharmaROSA® NEONATAL cutting combines compact structure, disease resistance and H7 hardiness with predictable, regenerating stands, making it a practical option to discuss scheduling and capacity for your programme.