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I looked this up because the name seemed unusual. From Wikipedia: "Château Gruaud-Larose is a winery in the Saint-Julien appellation of the Bordeaux region of France. It is also the name of the red wine produced by this property. The wine produced here was classified as one of fifteen Deuxièmes Crus in the original Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855."
You'd think they would have been offered a red rose.
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The rose pictured is stunningly beautiful. This could perhaps be sold in the USA as e.g., Rose Castle, a clumsy translation to be sure, but one which might not put off a buying public which must have its' easy to remember names.
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I can confirm that this rose is indeed stunning and have planted 3 here in our gardens. We are in the lower Cévennes France Zone 7a or 7b. The scent is of lychee fruit and very pleasant it is too. Our soil is slightly acidic and the first bare-root was planted three years ago and after six months in October finally flowered with one solitary but stunning rose the second season was very generous and gave us huge clusters like a floribunda which were simply ready made bouquets ( see photos from last summer ). Now I’ve pegged it and stands almost six foot tall and has blooms all over and is one of the healthiest roses here with next to no BS.
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Hello,
I purchased a Gruaud Larose through Palatine. How much sun does yours receive (ex: full sun, morning sun/afternoon shade)?
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Hello Roselover1
Our most mature plant receives full sun it is pointing almost due south. In fact just had some friends visit the gardens earlier and Gruaud had one saturated ( we’ve had a week of very heavy rain ) half-open flower poking out so I picked it off and presented it as a gift to one of the visitors. With all the rain I wasn’t expecting the rose to have much of a scent but voilà - yes quite perfumed with a strong citrus-lychee note. Lovely scent.
We have four now and the mature one is 3 years old standing at well over 6ft tall and 4ft + wide after only light pruning in March. There must be well over 150 buds on it right now.
Happy gardening. Peter
PS this one is in it’s fourth season was quite slow to develop took around 18 months to establish, one flower then 3-4 then last year dozens and dozens sometimes in groups of 5 or 6 held up almost in a ready-made bouquet.
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You are very lucky to have four of these roses I have been trying to get one and have not had any success. I cried when I heard Palatine was closing because that’s my only hope of getting this rose here in the US if you have any advice for other distributors please let me know
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Hello there. We are in France so can’t help with sending cuttings though I’m sure if you look up sellers of ‘NIRP’ branded varieties, of which Gruaud LaRose is one of, or you could contact them direct in Italy/ France and they may well be able to give you the name of a nursery in the US.
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Palatine announced they would have it ordered for December 2024!!
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Is this really a shrub? Mine looks more like a tea rose at the moment with a very very very long Kane that’s probably about 3 feet tall with a crown of buds and blooms on it
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The description page says 'height up to 13 inches', it looks like your long flowering cane is a good deal longer than that!
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wow, Stunning! brand new rose gardener here! I just got a mellow yellow I love the color iron I’m hoping that it will start producing it it is sprouting new leaves all over the place, I had to cut it back a lot because it was growing straight up in one spot it was probably 6 feet tall and everyone else was like 2 feet tall. I thought I killed it but I didn’t it’s coming back with gusto and I’m just waiting to see what happens with all this new growth!
Cece in New Mexico
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Best wishes on your Mellow Yellow. I think it’s one of the best yellows for garden performance
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I will second that notion regarding Mellow Yellow - has done quite well for me, now in its 3rd year
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My mellow yellow was on a western wall and I discovered that my backyard was 12° hotter than the air so we had a string of 107° and so my backyard was 119° poor mellow yellow was too hot where it was and so I moved it onto a south wall where we get some morning sun and some afternoon sun but nothing as direct as what it was getting now it’s so happy and it’s blossoming beautifully with lots of new buds and it keeps blossoming and is very prolific.
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