Hybrid Tea Rose 'Peace'

'Peace' is the most famous rose of the 20th century (1945, Meilland, PP591)—a hybrid tea with enormous, yellow-blend blooms edged in pink, bred in France before WWII and smuggled to the US for safekeeping.

• Family: Rosaceae
• Genus: Rosa
• Cultivar: 'Peace'
• Also known as: Bêle, Fredsrosen, Gioia, Gloria Dei, Madame Antoine Meilland
• Hybridized by: Meilland
• Introduced: 1945

Key Features: Huge (5–7 inch), high-centered, double blooms of golden-yellow edged with rose-pink. Light, sweet fragrance. Vigorous, upright habit to 4–6 feet. Blooms in flushes spring through fall. Hardy in USDA zones 5–9. Good disease resistance.

Landscape Uses: Specimen, rose beds, cutting gardens. A living piece of history—over 100 million plants sold worldwide.