The flower displays a brilliant snow‑white colour across its entire surface, without any cream, yellow or pink shades. - hybrid tea rose - scentless rose - no noticeable fragrance
– Pure, luminous snow‑white hybrid tea blooms.
– Very full, elegant cupped flower form.
– Reliable remontant rose with strong rebloom.
– Bushy habit with dense, glossy foliage.
– Good colour retention, petals hardly discolour.
– Special feature: Ideal white rose for refined, long‑stemmed cutting.
Origin guarantee – Uniform growth
eleanorROSE® ORIGINAL 2-litre own-root potted rose
19,00 £
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CASTA DIVA® – white hybrid tea rose – Barni
In a compact London front garden or balcony, CASTA DIVA® offers a quietly luxurious way to enjoy white hybrid tea blooms with a modern, sustainable twist. Grown on its own roots, it is designed for long-term structure and steady performance, ideal where you are managing heavy soil and frequent showers with calm patience. The pure, snow-white flowers sit above light green, glossy foliage, creating a cool, “girly” elegance that stays clean and bright as it opens. Over the first three years it naturally progresses from strengthening its underground framework, to building taller shoots, and finally to a well-balanced bush with stable ornamental value, giving you a reliable, long-lived feature for a rainwater-conscious urban garden.
Freshly opened white bloom of Casta Diva®.
Usage options
Target area
Reasoning
Small front-garden focal point
The upright, bushy habit and uniform growth allow CASTA DIVA® to work as a neat front-garden statement beside a path or bay window, giving clear structure without overpowering a modest space, well suited to the busy city homeowner audience.
Container or large pot (40–50 L+)
Planted in a generous 40–50 litre container, the compact spread and straight, exhibition-style stems provide an elegant vertical accent, while the own-root form supports long-term regeneration if the top growth is ever cut back, ideal for balcony gardeners audience.
Cut-flower rows in a family garden
Long, solitary hybrid tea stems with very full blooms and good colour stability make this variety well suited for home cutting, so you can harvest pure white roses for vases without compromising the plant’s overall shape, perfect for hobby florists audience.
Formal borders with structured planting
Consistent height and dense foliage help you create a rhythm of identical, evenly spaced plants along a path or terrace, giving a tidy, almost architectural effect when combined with low edging and clear lines, attractive to design-conscious gardeners audience.
Clay-soil beds with improved drainage
In heavier urban clay where water lingers after rain, improving drainage and mulching around this rose allows its own-root system to establish securely, supporting a long lifespan even where weather swings between showers and coastal winds challenge many plants audience.
Monochrome white schemes
The steadfast, snow-white colour without cream or pink tones means it pairs effortlessly with silver foliage and soft pastels, giving you a calm, balanced palette that remains coherent from first bud to fading petal, ideal for minimalist planting tastes audience.
Feature rose with companion perennials
Its bushy outline and light green leaves provide a simple backdrop for upright perennials, so companions such as verbena or coneflowers can add movement and seasonal interest while the rose supplies a stable, long-lived white anchor, appealing to layered-planting fans audience.
Collectable rose for Barni enthusiasts
With verified origin from Rose Barni and a named breeder, this cultivar offers authenticity and uniform growth for collectors who appreciate traceable breeding lines, giving confidence that plants will match expectations over the years, reassuring the discerning buyer audience.
Styling ideas
Opera-Edge – Line a narrow town-house path with CASTA DIVA® and low lavender for a refined, white-and-lilac arrival space – suited to terrace owners wanting a calm, grown-up entrance.
Milk-Glass – In a 50 L container, underplant with trailing Nepeta and white alyssum to echo the cool bloom colour – ideal for balcony gardeners seeking a single, easy focal pot.
Show-Stem – Create a short cutting row, alternating this rose with neat clumps of sage to supply both vase stems and kitchen herbs – for hobby florists who like practical beauty.
Snow-Drift – Mass plant along a sunny front fence, interspersed with Penstemon ‘Husker Red’ for soft white blooms against dark foliage – aimed at families wanting smart structure with little redesign.
Quiet-Chic – Use one specimen near a seating spot, backed by evergreen shrubs, to give a restrained, white focal point that feels contemporary rather than cottagey – perfect for design-led urban patios.
Technical cultivar profile
Parameter
Data
Name and registration
CASTA DIVA® hybrid tea rose (Registered as SELbar 0135); hybrid tea group exhibition-type rose offered as an own-root eleanorROSE® ORIGINAL 2-litre container plant for garden use.
Origin and breeding
Bred by Vittorio Barni in Italy, 1982, with parentage not recorded; introduced commercially by Rose Barni S.r.l., ensuring authentic Italian hybrid tea breeding heritage for collectors and enthusiasts.
Growth and structural characteristics
Bushy hybrid tea with dense, light green, glossy foliage; height around 80–100 cm and spread 50–70 cm; moderately thorny stems and weak self-cleaning, so spent blooms benefit from regular deadheading.
Flower morphology
Very full, cupped, solitary blooms on straight stems, typically over 40 petals; large-flowered L size (approximately 2.75–3.95 inches), remontant with a notably abundant second flush in suitable conditions.
Colour data and phenology
Pure snow-white buds and flowers (RHS 155C outer, 155D inner) with minimal fading; petals keep a cool, chalky white without browning, creating a crisp, modern white effect at full opening.
Fragrance and aroma
No noticeable fragrance; bred primarily for form and colour purity rather than scent, making it best for visual impact, cutting, and formal compositions where consistent white flowers are the priority.
Hip characteristics
Produces moderate numbers of small spherical red hips, around 8–12 mm in diameter; hips are mainly ornamental late in the season and may be reduced by regular deadheading for repeat flowering.
Resistance and winter hardiness
Hardy to approximately –21 to –18 °C (RHS H7, Swedish Zone 3, USDA 6b); disease-susceptible foliage requires attentive protection regimes and good air movement in humid or high-pressure conditions.
Horticultural recommendations
Best in sunny, open sites for borders, specimens or cut-flower beds; plant at 50–60 cm spacing, or 90 cm as a solitary; thrives with regular feeding, deadheading and professional-standard disease management.
CASTA DIVA® offers pure white hybrid tea blooms, reliable cut-flower performance and compact structure on a durable own-root plant; an appealing option if you value long-term elegance and are ready to give it attentive care.
Detailed product attributes
Product Identification Data
Product Name:
CASTA DIVA® – white hybrid tea rose - Barni
Product Type:
eleanorROSE® ORIGINAL - 2-litre own-root potted rose
Meaning of Cultivar Name:
The designation "Casta Diva" refers to the famous aria from Vincenzo Bellini's opera Norma and indicates the rose's pure white flower colour.
Pollinator Attraction:
The cultivar’s fully double flower form (double) conceals the stamens and limits pollen access, so it does not attract pollinating insects.
Heat and Drought Tolerance Description:
According to the descriptions, it tolerates heat well; during prolonged dry periods it requires regular watering.
Our product is a rose grown with pharmaROSA®’s unique cultivation technology!
2-litre, own-root, potted rose.
With a shoot system appropriate to the season.
With a root system that thoroughly permeates the growing medium.
Quality compliant with the requirements of the E.N.A. (European Nurserystock Association).
Supplied in unique packaging that prevents damage.
Can be planted during frost-free periods.
True-to-variety rose bush with a unique identifier.
The pharmaROSA® own-root potted rose is a well-rooted plant that supports reliable establishment when planted and cared for properly, so it can be planted whenever the soil is not frozen.
Crop overview: several varieties and growth stages in a short crop section.Shoot system: intensive growth of fresh basal shoots on a young plant.Root system: demonstration of a vigorous root system permeating the growing medium, by removing the pot.Balance: mature plant with root system and shoots in harmony with each other.
Information about the videos
The video series is not a “seasonal showcase”; it illustrates the essence of pharmaROSA® own-root cultivation in a tangible way: how the plant is built up, what the root system is like and how the shoot system regenerates. The recordings were therefore made at different times and with plants at various stages of development, so mixed foliage levels and differing stages of growth may appear in the videos. They are not a ‘sample’ of the batch dispatched, but a visual explanation of how the technology works. The current condition of the rose available to order — typical for the given period and similar to what you can expect to receive in the parcel — is shown in the upper part of the product page.
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Company details
PharmaRosa Ltd. Company registration number: 01-09-717479 VAT number: 13075314-2-43 Plant health registration no.: HU130721 Bank account (IBAN): HU85117631891388688400000000 BIC (SWIFT): OTPVHUHB Bank name: OTP Bank Nyrt.
