DESCRIPTION

Souvenir de Charles Breton is an attractive variety of rose mallow. The bush is rigid and upright, reaching up to 2 m. The leaves are dark-green, three-lobed, with toothed edges, turn yellow in autumn. Souvenir de Charles Breton provides prolific flowering from July until October. The flowers are large, lilac-pink to purple with red throats.

ADVICES

The plant is best planted in a sunny position, sheltered from wind. This rose requires fertile and free draining soil, ideally sandy and enriched with compost.

This rose does not require pruning, but formative or rejuvenating pruning could be carried out in late March or the beginning of April. Make the cuts above the outside facing buds. In order to protect against frost, in late autumn the root system should be covered with a mound of earth, sawdust or peat. To fertilize use an organic fertilizer.