This hybrid perpetual has stunning blooms for anyone liking the old
fashioned quartered form. Like Reine des Violettes, the bush shape is like
a fountain, and a sparse one when young. Here in Zone 7 Raleigh it begs to
be pegged.

The color is so interesting. Pink--for sure--but pink if pink were
regularly an entree instead of a desert.

The blooms don't have much over Austins. The substance is just a little
better, the blooms still blow fast, and I would say most Austins, for all
their variance, have a much more attractive bush shape for the average
garden than any hybrid perpetual.

What I really like about Paul Neyron is 1869. It was an interesting year.