A rose with very elegant dark red flowers. I have it growing on the north side of my house in Germany with only one or two hours of sun in summer. Another plant is sitting under a large bush of Alexander MacKenzie. Both plants are surviving but they are not developing their full potential. Karin Schade, who has posted photos of her plant and flowers here grows her roses only a few miles away from my town house in an open field in the countryside. And her Dis moi qui je suis is forming a large bush full of flowers in June. But then I am happy with my flowers as they are really perfect in colour and form. The leaves are also healthy. The Lord Scarman, also a Gallica rose, growing only a few feet away from my Dis moi and much more overgrown is in comparison doing much better in shade. Both roses have flowers that don't fade much to bluish hues as other old roses of that colour tend to do. The flowers of Lord Scarman are more than double the size of the Dis moi, but they are more towards the deep crimson pink. Burgundy Rambler, a modern rose, also bred by Scarman, standing next to one of my Dis mois qui je suis has flowers of a really dark burgundy red, nearly blackish and thus not as spectacular from a distance but blooming well on the north facing side of my house. Dis moi and Lord Scarman have very healthy foliage in contrast to Burgundy Rambler.