Le jardin de Jumaju
Les roses anciennes des Fieffes
Welcome in our garden
proverb: First deserve, and then desire
By the end of 18th century, the Europeans started to grow plants for their peculiarity, their exuberance and scarcity. Thanks to this new interest, a great number of species were born and are still in existence today.
Though quite closed off from the outer world. "China", from Canton, paid its vegetaltribute to Europe.
A few miles away from the city centre, was a tree nursery "Fa-Fa" open to Western people. Ther you could find roses grown in pots.
The first roses which reached Europe by the end of 18th century originated from there.
Around 1790, Joseph Banks, manager of Botanic Kew Garden, might have introduced in England a rose tree from China "Old Blush", still traded today.
A second rose tree would have been introduced in 1791 by Captain William Kerr which was described in 1794 under the name of "rosa semperflorens"
The revolutionary spirit of 1789 didn't stop botanists like Barbier, introducing rosa semperflorens in France. The following conflicts never stopped rose trees from crossing the Channel.... but Joséphine was a rose lover and could easily obtain privileges thanks to her status !
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rose trees of China of the garden
rose's name
 Year Creator
Albert La Blottais clg 1881 Moreau & Robert
Alice Hoffmann 1897 Hoffmann
Blomfield Abundance 1920 Thomas
Catherine II 1932 unknown
Cécile Brunner 1881 Pernet-Ducher
Cécile Brunner clg 1894 Hosp
Fellemberg (La Belle Marseillaise) 1857 Fellemberg
Hermosa 1840 Marchesseau
Irène Watts 1896 Guillot
Louis XIV 1859 Guillot
Mme Laurette Messimy 1867 Guillot
Papillon 1900 Dubourg
Sophie's perpetual unk. Brooke
White Cécile Brunner 1909 unknown
Colonel Fabvier 1832 Laffay
     
Mme Laurette Messimy
Alice Hoffmann