I came by this rose and was wondering if any of y'all grow it and could tell me about it. I haven't heard much about it but a Texas grower on HMF seems to love it.

Thanks!

Josh

"Creamy-white flowers of lovely scent, open cupped with squared, notched petals revealing a large boss of rose-colored stamens. This exquisite water-lily form was much admired in its day, and this is considered the finest of Levavasseur’s Polyanthas��"a group that his breeding focussed upon in the early 20th century. 2010 IMPORT ROSE SPECIAL."

Jeanne d'Arc is one of the first group, a nice shrub to about 5-6' or so, as I remember. It was taller than I am. It produces pannicles of many small, sweetly scented white flowers, almost continuously. The early noisettes, en mass, make a lovely hedge. Mostly, they don't climb. It is a good idea to dead head, not the individual flowers, which is well nigh impossible, but entire pannicles once blooming is almost finished. Simply remove the entire huge panicle as one unit. Before you know it, the plant will have grown new pannicles.

Some find the early Noisettes insipid; I think they are charming and make lovely backgrounds against which a gardener can display a collection of more flamboyant plants, like Pernetiana HTs.