PlantFiles: Hybrid Tea Rose
Rosa 'Peace'

Very beautiful rose but not resistant to black spot. I have it in a good airy location, still get a little bit of black spot inspite of adding Bayer 3-in 1 for roses.

We are in zone 8a and have a climbing peace rose that grows incredibly fast and has absolutely huge blooms (5+ inches). I did not keep up with spraying last year and all of my roses suffered from black spot to some degree or another but Peace continued to grow despite that. If you like roses and want to grow them in GA, you have to stick to a regimen for prevention of fungal disease, not to mention maintaining control over a wide variety of non beneficials insects.

We have this wonderful rose in our small but growing collection in our rose garden. So far we have just 4 roses but will have a 5th (red climber America) in a week or so. The blend of pastel yellow and pink made this an easy choice and the fact that it is hardy to Zone 4.

This rose (and indeed all hybrid teas) grows easily in Colorado with only a single systemic anti-aphid/fertlizer combination treatment in Spring and occasioinal dead-heading. A great choice for our climate.

My grandmother planted our Peace Rose in 1954 or thereabouts. I first met the rose when I regularly visited my Great Uncle Frank in whose yard the rose grows. It was then (1972) nearly smothered behind honeysuckle vine and a nearby clump of Pampas grass. I didn't know it was back there until Great Uncle Frank picked a rose and put it in a vase on the table. Beautiful, beautiful flower. I still have the same rose bush (the Pampas grass and honeysuckle are long gone). It gets black spot, but that doesn't faze it. The blooms are fewer, but that doesn't worry me. This was the rose that changed my mind about roses in the garden. Buried as it was in that jungle, it produced (and continues producing) pearlescent blooms I cannot resist. Any plant that valiant is welcome to my yard.

"Madame Antoine Meilland" is the grower's mother. It is how her husband, the grower's father, addressed letters to her from the front in WWI.

During WWII cuttings of the new rose were sent via train from the Meilland home to friends in Germany, Italy, Hungary and the United States. Meilland's hope was that at least one bundle of cuttings would arrive safely in case something happened to their gardens and stock. The cuttings sent to Hungary were intercepted and thrown out along with the mail on the same train, but the other three made it safely.

This is a gorgeous rose, very hardy for a hybrid tea, and the only hybrid tea I have in my garden. I frequently see Peace blooming profusely in the totally neglected gardens of vacant houses or burned-out hulks.

This rose is a classic and is a welcome sight in any rose garden. It's been the parent of many great roses and has a rich history.

While the 2 Peace climbers that I have on my back fence have some completely stunning flowers, I find them not at all resistant to black spot. As a matter of fact, the black spot has nearly stripped the foliage and has completely distracted attention from the blooms so far this year. We're in central TX zone 8. My sis-in-law swears it's because we had a particularly wet April this year with much more ranfall than usual. I'll give them another year to watch their performance. Sadly, I may find it necessary to replace them if the black spot returns so badly next year.

I'm in Zone 10, many roses grow well with us but this one is a disappointment. We don't have a disease problem but this rose starts flowering later than most as the weather starts to heat up and the flowers go from the most beautiful buds to spent cabbages in a day.The heat also seems to spoil the perfume which I remember from my childhood in a cooler zone as outstanding.
I'll probably continue to grow it, but for a cut flower only as the flowers last much longer indoors.

My parents grew a beautiful specimen of the Peace Rose at their suburban home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the late 1950's. It flourished in the middle of the back yard in full sun for many years, sprawling over the wood pile every summer. It was the only rose on the property, as my father didn't like plants with thorns, but my Mother insisted on having it, as two of her brothers had served in the military in World War II--one in Europe and one in the Pacific, and she grew it with hope that no one would have to endure that kind of worry again.

A beautiful rose, with a long history. But as with many hybrid teas, failed miserably for me. "Failure to thrive" syndrome with small, stunted plants, plagued by, and regularly defoliated by mildew, rust and black spot. Buds sometimes deformed and attacked by aphids. I'll stick with old and shrub roses.

A very hardy Hybrid Tea. Flowers can be pink or yellow or pink/yellow.

"This is the 'Peace' rose, which was christened by the Pacific Rose Society exhibition in Pasadena on the day Berlin fell. We hope the 'Peace' rose will influence men's thoughts for everlasting world Peace."
-Provided to forty nine delegations of the United Nations with a single bloom. 1945

Introduced in 1945 to commemorate the end of World War II.

A beautiful rose, it's color is pale yellow tinged with pink, reminding me of a sunrise. Wonderfully fragrant.

Height: 6' Tall, 3' Wide
Zones: 4-9. Hardy to 15 degrees.
A fast grower.