Romantica Rose 'Frederic Mistral': Meilland's Provencal Poet

Introduced in 1996 by Meilland, 'Frederic Mistral' (PP10004, also known as MEItebros, The Children's Rose) belongs to the Romantica series—roses that marry antique form and fragrance with modern vigor. Named for the Nobel Prize-winning Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral, this cultivar sings with the scent of the Mediterranean.

Botanical Profile

The blooms are large, deeply cupped and quartered, a luminous soft pink with a deeper pink reverse, composed of 50+ petals. The fragrance is strong and complex—old rose, tea, and citrus, a perfume that evokes lavender fields and olive groves. The plant is a vigorous shrub 4-5 feet tall, with large, leathery, dark green foliage. As a hybrid tea/romantica, it produces long cutting stems, but the flower form is distinctly old-fashioned. 'Frederic Mistral' is a rose that carries culture in its petals—a poet's rose for the fragrance garden.