Dee-Lish™

This rose's location in the garden is NE 7.
  • Classification: Hybrid Tea
  • Flower Color: medium pink
  • Flower Size: 4 inches
  • Flower Form: cupped bloom form
  • Petal Count: 35 petals
  • Fragrance: strong, citrus, rose fragrance
  • Repeat Bloomer:  yes
  • Foliage:  gray-green, maroon highlights
  • Plant Height:  up to 6 feet
  • Plant Width: 3 feet
  • Growth Habit:  medium, upright
  • Disease Resistant:  yes
  • Hybridizer:  Meilland International
  • Registered: 2011 (France)
  • Parentage: ‘Louis de Funès’ × ‘Graham Thomas’
  • ARS* Rating:  7.6 (a good rose)
    *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:
  • 2016  American Garden Rose Selection
  • 2017  Biltmore International Rose Trials, Most Fragrant Rose
 
Notes:
  • “The founder of Meilland  International SA, Antoine Meilland, survived service in World War I, and saw his first post-war rose crop wiped out by a beetle infestation. He recovered and eventually made his nursery the dominant force in the French rose growing business. Having arranged the smuggling of a seedling out of France just prior to the German occupation in World War II, in 1945 Francis Meilland introduced one of the most famous of all roses, ‘Peace’… Meilland holds more than 1,000 patents worldwide and owns 600 trademarks. They have a tradition of naming some of their roses in honor of a notable person or celebrity, both historical and present day.” --- (Wilkipedia), “Meilland International SA,” retrieved February 2021.

  • Dee-Lish was introduced in France and Australia as ‘Forget-Me-Not.’