Remontancy

Remontancy is the ability of a plant to flower more than once during the course of a growing season or year.

The term originated in the nineteenth century from the French verb remonter or 'coming up again'.

As remontancy is considered a desirable horticultural characteristic, it is preferentially selected for by rose hybridisers.

Remontant roses descended from Rosa chinensis have been grown in China for at least a thousand years,[2]: 8  but the first garden roses in Europe to possess remontancy were the autumn damasks, which first appeared in the seventeenth century with the introduction of the cultivar 'Quatre Saisons'.

[2]: 9  When forms of Rosa chinensis were introduced into Europe in the late eighteenth century, subsequent hybridisation between these and the European roses eventually led to the wide variety of remontant garden hybrids which are available today.