I am astonished at the huge flowers of this rose. Its health is also ok round my area, not bad for a HT.
I have been admiring two specimens of it at a neighbour’s front garden for the last two growing seasons, but could never guess its identity.
Finally, today I got to talk with the neighbour whilst she was gardening, and she was able to show me a purchase label with the name of this rose: ‘Pink Peace’.
The bright pink enormous flowers are stunning and cannot be ignored as you pass by. HMF says they are quite fragrant, though I have not been able to determine this, and the neighbour herself was not sure if they were fragrant.
Has anyone used PP in breeding?
I noticed only very few OP hips were made on this specimen last season.
Amazeing hidden qualities in Peace. On large flower search a fellow reported 9" flower on climbing Peace using 5 year old sheep dung. In the jungle there is a walking tree that can move 12" per year for better sun conditions and yesterday after clearing out masses of flowers in order to plant new roses it was shocking to discover that the Peace rose had moved from under branches of a tree to within 10" of the driveway. The whole line of roses where planted 32" centered from sidewalk and driveway and now this Peace is 10" centered from the driveway. I looked again this morning just make sure.
Pink Peace is one of the more fragrant roses. Subject to BS & RMV. I think it’s worth trying on more disease resistant roses to carry fragrance.
Frederic Mistral is a better reincarnation of pink + Peace lineage. It smells better, its growth is better behaved and it is healthier. The vigor is equitable and rebloom is good for a HT. Also, its farther away from the nasty hybrid perpetual influence. Pink Peace is a work horse but it is also extremely crude – traits which have been bred out of this line of roses because they translate poorly in the garden.
Hmm, I see. Thanks ya’all, some interesting perspectives on this one.
Pink Peace is nice but I really like Chicago Peace, much better colored blooms and the bush always looks healthy, except for a couple weeks end of summer with blackspot, I would say this rose is very disease resistant considering that all roses here in my state get bs.
Hi Jeanie…yes, pink is not one of my preferred colors in roses. It is unusual that I took such a liking to PP, but there you go!
BTW, as a further comparison, ‘Peace’ itself has zero resistance to BS in my climate.
Peace gave the white flag up over to blackspot the year it was introduced, lol. Its farily prone everywhere. Its saving grace has always been its ability to outgrow disease and cover it up with huge blooms/foliage. Its several lines of Pernetiana melded together so it would be difficult to expect less. What is fascinating about Peace is its lineage relative to the end product. The plant itself is so vuluptous if one considers the sourcess of its lineage. Unfortunately, it did retain the awful lack of a decent branching habit, which is also one of Pink Peace’s major flaws.
I remember the year Lynn Anderson was introduced knowing it could reach 7’ tall like Selfridges can. I was excited because it was a rose “my size”. I was quickly disappointed by year 2 when I found out that Lynn Anderson has the branching habit of a NASA shuttle and blooms the size of Ding Dongs. Lynn Anderson was a huge rage until everyone else found out similar. Moonstone was soon introduced and quickly bumped Lynn Anderson off the map. It had similar color, bloom shape and foliage texture but it also had the wonderful branching habit and bloom production afforded to it from Crystalline, which has multiple floribundas in it.
George, sometimes its best to stand back 10 ft (3.33 meters!)and several months to see the bigger picture in what a specific rose is because it is very easy to get excited about something new to discover. Or, as my girlfriend would say, “Humans wouldnt exist if men didnt have the overly optimistic gene.”
Pink Peace and its striped sport, Candy Stripe, are wonderfully fragrant and both can rust like old iron nails when the weather is right. I grew both for years in the mid desert and suffered minimal problems with them, most notably mildew. In many other gardens, rust has been horrible on them, unfortunately.
it is very easy to get excited about something new to discover<<<<<< SO true Michael. I lost lots of $$ last season getting excited about the roses, and learned my lesson the hard way!!!
Hi Kim. I didn’t even know PP had a striped sport, there you go! I must get my HMF membership renewed it ran out and I can’t see the darned pedigrees … LOL!
It’s still a pretty rose.
Here it is!
This is he rose I saw end of may in “Le Cannet des Maures” french Riviera at a garden where there were many rose bushes with stunningly enormous vibrant pink flowers. No other roses. All older plants with sparse diverging branches that were healthy then.
By the way “Le Cannet des Maures” is as little as 1km from actual Meilland’s breeding operations.