Love & Peace rose
The Love & Peace rose, also known as Pullman Orient Express, showcases exquisite flowers with a classic rose shape reminiscent of its parent – the legendary rose known worldwide as Peace. The flowers are also bi-colored, with a more contrasting transition from yellow to magenta. Beautiful roses, measuring 12 to 14 cm in diameter, have around fifty bright yellow petals that gradually become intense Bengal pink as they mature.
Characteristics The Love & Peace rose
Variety Name: Love & Peace ™
Patented Name: BAIpeace
Synonyms: Pullman Orient Express ®; 91G55-1B; Bright Spirit; Orient Express (hybrid tea, Lim & Twomey, 1991); Oriental PEACE ®
Group: Modern Garden Roses
Class: Hybrid Tea Roses and their climbers
Hybrid: Unnamed Seedling × Peace (hybrid tea, Meilland 1935)
Breeder: Ping Lim / Jerry F. Twomey (USA)
Creation Year: 1991 / introduced in 2002
Form: Medium-sized upright bush
Height / Width: Up to 150 cm / 60–90 cm
Blooming: Repeating
Fragrance: Medium
Color: Yellow, magenta
Flower Diameter: 13–14 cm
Flower Type: Double (40–50 petals)
Leaf Size and Color: Dark green, glossy, leathery foliage
Disease Resistance: Good
USDA Zones: 7 and warmer
Ideal for: Flowerbeds, mixed borders, solitary and group plantings, cut flowers.
Awards: 2002: All-America Rose Selection (AARS) – USA; 2004: Orleans Audience Prize (France), Baden-Baden Audience Prize (Germany); 2006: Best Rose – Portland (USA).
Description
Each rose is unique in its original color palette, from barely open buds to fully bloomed flowers. The delightful fragrance of tea roses with fruity notes adds to the appeal of this rose.
The dense, glossy, dark green foliage exhibits excellent disease resistance. The flowers of Orient Express hold their shape well, do not drop prematurely, and bloom singly on each stem, sometimes in small corymbs. This variety is a repeat bloomer and highly resistant to summer heat, sun, and rain.
Caring for Love and Peace requires a comprehensive approach, including regular watering, fertilization, weeding, loosening, and formative pruning. This front-of-border variety is ideal for planting in flowerbeds, forming clusters of the same type, and also performs well when grown in large containers. It makes a beautiful cut flower, retaining its beauty for a long time in vases.
This exceptional rose has received numerous awards in international competitions.
Originally, the variety was named after the luxurious train that connected Paris and Istanbul (then Constantinople) starting in 1883. Over time, the “Orient Express” carried illustrious passengers such as Franz Joseph, Queen Elizabeth II, Charles de Gaulle, Agatha Christie, and other celebrities. In the United States, where the variety was created, the rose is marketed under the exhibition name “Love & Peace,” which resonates with the name of its “parent” – Peace (Gloria Dei).
There is a sport of this variety – Grimpant Pullman Orient Express ® (climbing form), discovered by an unknown person in 2013 and introduced to the market by Meilland in 2017.
Alain Meilland used the “Love & Peace” rose in France for hybridizing the Hybrid Tea Rose variety “Mademoiselle Meilland ®” (2006).
