Rosa "Meikrotal" (trademarked as "Scarlet Meidiland") is an extraordinary rose.
One of the new breed of landscape roses bred by the House of Meilland in France, it has flowers of such vivid scarlet intensity that it is difficult to photograph. It was released in 1988 and has been widely planted since then.
It is tolerant of winter cold and summer heat and resistant to pests and diseases. These qualities make it a good rose for mass planting along roadways etc.
The photograph here is one I took last summer in a heatwave: no rose symbolises summer heat better that this one.
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