Pompadour Red™ – pharmaROSA® NEONATAL rooted cutting for professional production
Floribunda bedding performance, bushy upright habit and compact framework make Pompadour Red™ a reliable choice for nursery container lines aimed at standard 2–3 litre product routes and volume retail programmes. Its resistant foliage, rated H7 to –21 °C, supports predictable production for UK networks where winters and wind exposure can be demanding in northern and Scottish sites, while the remontant flowering delivers strong repeat colour in bedding and landscape ranges. Uniform, scarlet-red double clusters provide consistent visual impact in show and thematic rose gardens, and the own-root pharmaROSA® NEONATAL format gives a durable propagation base for long-run blocks, allowing roots to establish in year one, framework to build in year two and full ornamental value to consolidate from year three onwards across wholesale propagation, nursery grow-on and collection maintenance planting.
Usage options
Finished-product ideas
- 2–3 L floribunda bedding line – Bush-trained, compact Pompadour Red™ in 2–3 litre standard containers, positioned as a low-maintenance, disease-resistant bedding floribunda for volume retail benches – retail / reseller networks.
- Exhibition floribunda feature block – Uniform scarlet-red clusters and remontant flowering presented in grouped 3 L containers for thematic or show garden supply, emphasising colour reliability and RNRS trial heritage – public-realm and collection projects.
- Hardy landscape rose range – H7-hardy, disease-resistant plants finished in 2–3 litre standard containers, targeted at contractors needing resilient, low-intervention roses for northern and exposed UK schemes – municipal and institutional landscapers.
- Florist-support cutting garden pack – Upright, cluster-flowered plants supplied in 2–3 litre pots as a scarlet-red floribunda unit for cutting plots, combining remontant flowering with reliable foliage quality – specialist growers serving local florists.
- Own-root stock bed starter lot – pharmaROSA® NEONATAL tray-rooted cuttings of Pompadour Red™ delivered for onward potting into 2–3 litre standard containers, forming durable, low-maintenance stock beds – nurseries and integrator propagation systems.
Technical cultivar profile
| Parameter |
Data |
| Name and registration |
Floribunda, florists rose, commercial bed rose type; registered cultivar name Pompadour Red, current trade name Pompadour Red™ Bedding rose Pompadour Red; ARS exhibition name Pompadour Red; meaning references Madame de Pompadour and scarlet colour. |
| Origin and breeding |
Raised by Gerrit de Ruiter, De Ruiter Innovations BV, Hazerswoude, Netherlands; cross Orange Triumph × Anne Mette Poulsen; bred and introduced 1951, unregistered cultivar status; initially distributed by Jackson & Perkins Co. in the USA. |
| Awards and recognition |
Holds an RNRS Trial Ground Certificate from 1951, indicating proven garden and trial performance under mid-twentieth-century UK conditions; relevant for heritage-oriented ranges and thematic or collection-style rose gardens and displays. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Bushy, upright bush form reaching 100–140 cm in height and 70–110 cm spread; moderately dense, glossy dark green foliage; moderately thorny shoots; self-cleaning behaviour not documented; well-suited to compact bedding and container applications. |
| Flower morphology |
Large, double, cupped blooms in cluster-flowered inflorescences; petal count 26–39; classified as L size (approximately 2.75–3.95 inches); remontant character with an abundant second flush, supporting extended seasonal colour in production and garden use. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Uniform, intense scarlet-red flowers with RHS 46B outer and 53A inner petal tones; colour fades only slightly, remaining even and at most slightly matt at end of flowering; closed buds deep scarlet, pure scarlet when newly open, with darker petal edges. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Fragrance character not fully described; available notes indicate a mild, restrained scent rather than a strong perfume; not selected as a fragrance-feature cultivar, better suited where colour and bedding performance are primary drivers of assortment planning. |
| Hip characteristics |
Due to very double flowers, hip set is limited; where present, hips are occasional, small, globular and red, approximately 6–10 mm in diameter; hips are not a dominant ornamental feature and have limited impact on general production or marketing strategy. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Rated resistant to powdery mildew, black spot and rust; winter hardy to approximately –21 to –18 °C, RHS H7, Swedish zone 3, USDA 6b; heat and drought tolerance not documented; suited to typical UK nursery production and most landscape site conditions. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Release form bush-trained compact plants; recommended for standard container production, especially 2–3 litre pots; primary uses not specifically documented, but low maintenance and good disease resistance support reliable garden performance as a bedding floribunda. |
Pompadour Red™ offers hardy, disease-resistant scarlet floribunda bedding performance on a predictable, long-lived own-root base, giving nurseries stable, low-replacement blocks for reliable garden ranges; we suggest discussing timings and capacity for your next cycles.
