p
ierre de Ronsard is well-named. It is a rose that really warms the heart ; whose every petal is a sonnet, whose every nuance evokes tenderness of the soul, that of the french poet Pierre de Ronsard. Eden Rose ® / Eden Climber ™ are the English or American names for Pierre de Ronsard. It is a climbing rose, like those that surround the Madonna in the clouds in ancient paintings, in very pale pink with a hundred petals, in tight, dense spheres, that bloom in quarters in the old style, finely hemmed with bright pink to underline the hint of green on the other side, and the pale green tint of the small, round buds. To describe the emotion given by columns of tumbling roses, that follow the sugary, mauve panicles of the Paulownias alongside the Orangery of the Luxembourg Gardens (Paris) in June, is to describe the splendour of several roses resting in the fresh shade of a summer afternoon, when the air shimmering with heat seems to lie dormant; is later to contemplate daybreak with its pink fingers and lace one's days with poetry.

Anne-Sophie Rondeau (The Grand Rose Family)





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