Rose 'Madame Moreau'

Rosa

How to grow Rose 'Madame Moreau'

  • Full Sun

  • Medium

Moss roses are usually summer flowering, this means that the flower buds are formed on the previous season’s growth. Any pruning should be light, taking out dead diseased or crossing stems and trimming back the others by about a half to a third. It should be done after the flowers have faded at the end of the summer
Feed with blood fish and bone, twice a year, in the spring as the rose starts into growth and after summer pruning. Scrape the soil under the bush, being careful not to damage the surface roots and work in the powdered or pelleted blood fish bone.

Try to plant in a location that enjoys full sun and remember to water moderately. Keep in mind when planting that Madame Moreau is thought of as hardy, so this plant will survive close to or on freezing temperatures.

Growing Madame Moreau from seed

Roses are not usually grown from seed but can be easily rooted from hardwood cuttings taken in late autumn.
Insert the cuttings, 20 to 30 cm long into a prepared trench in a shady part of the garden. These will take about a year to root when they can be potted up individually and planted out in to the garden the following season
In a commercial situation roses are grafted onto a root stock

Transplanting Madame Moreau

Bare root roses are planted out in the dormant season. Dig a hole that is large enough to take the rootstock without squashing and deep enough to take the graft and be covered by about 4cm. Backfill adding blood fish and bone, water and firm in.
Container grown roses can be planted out at any time of year. Dig a large hole and untangle the pot bound roots. Back fill adding blood fish and bone covering the root stock by about 4cm. Water well and continue to attend to the watering through out the growing season as the the plant establishes new roots

As Madame Moreau is hardy, ensure temperatures are mild enough to plant out - wait until after your last frost date to be on the safe side.

Harvesting Madame Moreau

Madame Moreau folklore & trivia

Moreau-Robert 1872