SOURIRE DU HAVRE – salmon‑orange hybrid tea rose
With its warm, storybook blooms, SOURIRE DU HAVRE brings an inviting sense of romance to family gardens, combining a refined hybrid tea flower with practical, reliable performance. Its upright, compact habit fits easily into cottage-style borders and small urban plots alike, while the dense, glossy foliage helps anchor the plant in breezy conditions and copes calmly with typical coastal weather and exposed sites. The very double, salmon-orange flowers repeat generously through the season, providing a gentle continuity of colour for afternoon tea corners, rose arbours or cutting beds. Grown on its own roots, it offers reassuring longevity, steady regeneration from the base and a stable outline that matures gracefully. Plant once, allow roots to establish in year one, enjoy stronger top growth in year two and a rounded, full garden presence by year three, all with straightforward, medium-level care and flexible pruning options that suit hobby gardeners and busy beginners.
Usage options
| Target area |
Reasoning |
| Key focal point in a family front garden |
SOURIRE DU HAVRE’s upright, compact structure and dense dark-green foliage create a clear, elegant focal point without overshadowing nearby plants, giving a tidy, long-lived framework that remains attractive even between flushes of bloom – ideal for the design-conscious homeowner. |
| Cutting bed or exhibition-style border |
The large, very double, rosette blooms are borne mainly singly, with long, straight stems perfect for vases and informal arrangements, while the salmon-orange colour fades gracefully, so cut flowers and garden display remain refined for days – ideal for the enthusiastic flower-lover. |
| Cottage mixed border with perennials |
Reliable repeat flowering provides a soft backdrop of colour that threads through herbaceous perennials, while own-root vigour supports a stable outline over many seasons, reducing the need for replanting and complex border redesign – ideal for the relaxed cottage-gardener. |
| Family garden bed in typical suburban clay soil |
The medium, upright growth and robust root system settle well into improved clay or loam, especially in slightly raised beds with good drainage, giving dependable flowering with only basic feeding and mulching – well suited to the practical family-gardener. |
| Coastal or wind-exposed position |
The dense, glossy foliage and moderately thorny stems help the plant hold its shape and remain visually full in breezier, more exposed locations, bringing colour and structure where other shrubs can look sparse in wind-swept gardens – reassuring for the seaside gardener. |
| Large container on patio or terrace (40–50 litre+) |
In a generously sized pot of 40–50 litres or more, the upright habit and moderate spread form a neat, vertical accent, with repeat blooms providing colour near seating areas, while own-root resilience supports renewal after harder prunes – convenient for the busy city-dweller. |
| Low informal hedge or row along a path |
Planting at 50–60 cm intervals creates a gently flowing line of salmon-orange blooms and glossy foliage, with medium maintenance needs and straightforward winter pruning keeping the hedge manageable and welcoming by the front path – perfect for the sociable host. |
| Long-term specimen in a small lawn or kitchen garden corner |
As an own-root specimen, the rose develops a durable framework that can be rejuvenated from the base if needed, supporting a long lifespan and consistent ornamental value with only periodic shaping and basic plant protection – ideal for the patient beginner. |
Styling ideas
- Cottage-Romantic Row – Plant SOURIRE DU HAVRE in a loose row along a picket fence, underplant with lavender and low catmint for a hazy blue contrast to the salmon-orange blooms – for lovers of traditional cottage charm.
- Patio Tea Corner – Grow one plant in a 50–60 litre clay pot beside a small bistro set, adding thyme and chives in nearby containers for a kitchen-garden feel around your afternoon tea spot – for busy urban dwellers seeking romance in little spaces.
- Front-Garden Welcome – Use two or three plants flanking the front path, interspersed with white geraniums and soft grasses to frame the entrance with long-season colour and tidy structure – for homeowners who value an elegant first impression.
- Cutting-Flower Strip – Line a narrow bed with SOURIRE DU HAVRE and mix in cosmos and annual larkspur so you can cut roses and airy fillers together for relaxed kitchen-table bouquets – for hobby florists and home arrangers.
- Kitchen-Garden Accent – Place a single shrub at the corner of raised vegetable beds, combining it with sage, oregano and dwarf box edging to knit the productive and ornamental areas into one charming scene – for gardeners who enjoy a lived-in, working garden.
Technical cultivar profile
| Parameter |
Data |
| Name and registration |
Modern Hybrid Tea group; registered as PANaldap, marketed as SOURIRE DU HAVRE – salmon-orange hybrid tea rose – PANaldap; exhibition hybrid tea and cut flower type for garden and vase. |
| Origin and breeding |
Bred by Bernard Panozzo at Star de Doué, France; introduced and registered in 2011, distributed initially by Pétales de Roses and Star de Doué; parentage not recorded or publicly documented. |
| Growth and structural characteristics |
Upright bushy shrub, around 80–110 cm tall and 60–85 cm wide, with dense, glossy dark-green foliage and moderate prickliness; suited to beds, hedging, specimen planting and larger patio containers. |
| Flower morphology |
Large, very double rosette blooms with over 40 petals, mainly solitary on stems; classified as remontant with abundant second flush, typical flower diameter around 7–10 cm in suitable garden conditions. |
| Colour data and phenology |
Warm salmon-orange base, RHS 36C outer and 36D inner petals; buds intense orange-salmon, opening to glowing centres and soft peach-pink tones as blooms mature and gradually fade to creamy pinkish-orange shades. |
| Fragrance and aroma |
Fragrance very light and discreet, with a faintly sweet, fruity character detectable at close range; primarily chosen for colour, form and garden effect rather than for strong perfume or culinary uses. |
| Hip characteristics |
Sparse rose hips, only occasionally produced; ovoid, orange-red fruits approximately 10–14 mm in diameter, offering modest autumn interest without significant self-seeding concerns in most gardens. |
| Resistance and winter hardiness |
Rated to approximately –26 to –23 °C (RHS H7, Swedish Zone 4, USDA 5b); medium disease resistance, with average tolerance to powdery mildew, black spot and rust when grown in full sun and well-aerated sites. |
| Horticultural recommendations |
Prefers sunny positions with fertile, well-drained soil; plant 50–60 cm apart in groups, 90 cm for specimens; maintenance medium with occasional plant protection; best results with regular feeding, mulching and winter pruning. |
SOURIRE DU HAVRE offers compact structure, reliable repeat flowering and long-lived own-root resilience for relaxed family gardens; consider it if you want enduring salmon-orange charm with only moderate upkeep.
