Raspberry Cream Twirl™

This rose's location in the garden is SW 11.
  • Classification: Climber (large-flowered)
  • Flower Color:  pink blend
  • Flower Size:  3.5 inches
  • Flower Form: clustered, cupped, fully double, quartered 
  • Petal Count: up to 100 petals
  • Fragrance: light green apple
  • Repeat Bloomer: yes
  • Foliage: dark green, very glossy, leathery
  • Plant Height: 10 to 12 feet 
  • Plant Width:  4-5 feet spread
  • Growth Habit:  upright
  • Disease Resistant: yes
  • Hybridizer: Alain Meilland (France, before 2010)  
  • Registered: 2012
  • Parentage: Sorbet Fruité® Cl. x Bonica ‘82  
  • ARS* Rating: none *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:
  • None

Notes:
  • ‘Raspberry Cream Twirl’™ is the first striped climber with a classic rose, exhibition type flower. It is also one of the few striped climbers to have better than average disease resistance. The striping is very consistent and can be noticed even from a distance. The flowers have a slight green apple scent. It is almost thorn-less, making it the perfect rose for cutting, gardens, pillars or high foot-traffic areas. – starrosesandplants.com

  • “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. In 1932, he signed a contract with the Conard-Pyle Co. (Star Roses) nursery in West Grove, Pennsylvania to market Meilland-bred roses in America. The relationship continues to this day. Antoine's son, Francis Meilland (1912–1958), was another visionary who established a reputation for his breeding and built the business into a worldwide operation with a network of agents who simultaneously introduced his varieties. For what he called a "Universal Rose Selection", he prepared colored catalogs designed so that each agent could insert his own text. Having arranged the smuggling of a seedling out of France just prior to the German occupation, in 1945 Francis Meilland introduced one of the most famous of all roses, ‘Peace’. Currently, the business is headed by Alain Meilland, and today it has nursery production covering over 1500 acres in France, Morocco, Spain, the Netherlands, and in the U.S. State of California selling more than 12 million rose bushes annually." -- (Wikipedia, “Meilland International SA”) retrieved June 2021.