Uniform warm coffee-brown tone with a slight milky-caramel shade. - dwarf, miniature rose - mild, subtly scented rose - delicate, tea-like aroma
– Unique coffee, caramel and mauve tones
– Compact Mini - dwarf rose for pots
– Reliable remontant flowering all season
– Low maintenance with strong disease resistance
– Excellent miniature show rose, award-winning
– Special feature: Bright red hips add autumn interest.
Value-based choice – Consistent quality
pharmaROSA® ORIGINAL 2-litre own-root potted rose
24,70 £
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Café Olé miniature rose – MORolé
miniature charm with sophisticated colour blends makes Café Olé an easy choice for small gardens, pots and neat front borders, giving reliable flowering with low-input maintenance and reassuring disease resistance; its own-root longevity helps it settle securely even where wetter spells test drainage in British family plots, while an upright, compact habit keeps pathways and driveways tidy and welcoming over the years.
Café Olé showing its late-season coffee-beige and soft mauve tones.
Café Olé shows several opening stages in one clip, from milk-coffee bud to soft cream and mauve tones.
Usage options
Target area
Reasoning
Front garden edging along paths or drives
Café Olé’s compact, upright miniature growth makes a precise, tidy edging that does not flop onto paths, even in small front gardens. Its coffee-and-caramel blooms read clearly from the pavement, giving a smart but characterful welcome for style-conscious beginners.
Feature rose in decorative containers (40–50 litres+)
This dwarf rose is perfectly suited to larger patio containers where space is at a premium; a 40–50 litre pot allows roots to mature steadily, giving long-lived structure and regular flushes of latte-toned flowers for busy urban gardeners.
Small mixed cottage beds near the house
The subtle café shades blend easily with soft perennials and cottage favourites, avoiding colour clashes in compact borders; its remontant flowering and mild tea-like fragrance add gentle movement and interest without demanding complex pruning from cottage-style homeowners.
Low, informal miniature rose hedge
Planted at the recommended distances, Café Olé creates a low hedge that remains relatively narrow yet well-filled, ideal for defining play areas or separating driveways from lawns while staying manageable for hobby gardeners with limited time.
Family garden beds on heavier clay with improved drainage
In typical British clay soils, this own-root plant establishes steadily once drainage is improved, developing a stable bush that copes reliably with periods of persistent rain and wind, supporting those who want success without advanced gardening skills.
Long-season colour anchor in small borders
With its remontant habit and cluster-flowered sprays, Café Olé supplies frequent waves of bloom from a small footprint, acting as a dependable focal point that keeps borders looking intentional and cared-for for beginners and time-pressed households.
Low-maintenance rose section for busy gardeners
Good resistance to black spot, mildew and rust reduces the need for spraying or close monitoring, so you can rely on healthy foliage and clean flowers with only basic watering and feeding, suiting those who prioritise ease over intensive rose care.
Long-term own-root planting for enduring structure
As an own-root rose, Café Olé forms its permanent shape in place and can regenerate from its base if ever cut back hard, supporting a gradual progression from modest first-year growth to full ornamental impact over the first three seasons for cautious new rose owners.
Styling ideas
Latte-border – combine Café Olé with cream foxgloves and soft ornamental grasses to echo its coffee-and-cream blooms – ideal for homeowners seeking a calm, coordinated front garden.
Patio-feature – plant one rose per 40–50 litre terracotta pot with trailing thyme or lobelia to soften the rim – perfect for balcony and courtyard gardeners wanting maximum effect from minimal space.
Cottage-ribbon – edge a small cottage bed with alternating Café Olé and lavender to contrast warm blooms with cool foliage – suited to those creating an informal but tidy pathside planting.
Clay-friendly – in improved heavy soil, repeat small groups of Café Olé between hardy geraniums for a resilient, low-care strip – for family gardens where durability and easy upkeep matter most.
Mini-hedge – use a short run of closely spaced plants to frame a front gate or bin store, keeping height low but decorative – good for practical urban gardeners who also value a welcoming entrance.
Technical cultivar profile
Parameter
Data
Name and registration
Miniature rose, registered as MORolé, marketed as Café Olé Mini - dwarf rose MORolé, ARS exhibition name Café Olé; belongs to the Mini - dwarf rose commercial group.
Origin and breeding
Natural sport of ‘Winter Magic’ bred by Ralph S. Moore at Sequoia Nursery, United States; introduced and registered in 1990 by Sequoia Nursery for miniature exhibition and garden use.
Awards and recognition
Recognised on the show bench as Miniature Princess of Show in 1999, indicating strong exhibition potential alongside its suitability for decorative use in smaller private gardens.
Growth and structural characteristics
Compact, upright miniature shrub typically 70–90 cm tall with a 45–55 cm spread, moderately dense, slightly glossy mid-green foliage and moderate prickliness, suited to edges, pots and small beds.
Flower morphology
Semi-double, cup-shaped flowers with 13–25 petals borne mainly in clusters; small blooms around 0.5–1.5 inches across, repeating well with abundant second flushes through the season.
Colour data and phenology
Warm coffee-brown to milky caramel base tones, ARS Rus; RHS 165A outer and 164B inner, fading through latte beige to dusty rose-grey and mauve, giving a distinctive café-au-lait appearance at full bloom.
Fragrance and aroma
Mild, delicate tea-like scent that adds a subtle aromatic note at close range; semi-double form offers moderate accessibility of stamens, attracting some pollinators while remaining mainly ornamental in effect.
Hip characteristics
Occasional bright red, ovoid hips approximately 6–8 mm in diameter may form, adding small seasonal accents but generally not a dominant feature compared with the distinctive flower colour.
Resistance and winter hardiness
Rated resistant to powdery mildew, black spot and rust; hardy approximately to −21 to −18 °C, corresponding to RHS H7, Swedish Zone 3 and USDA Zone 6b in suitably prepared garden situations.
Horticultural recommendations
Best in full sun with reasonable drainage; ideal for containers, edging and small beds, planted 30–55 cm apart depending on use, with generally low maintenance needs under average British garden care.
Café Olé miniature rose MORolé offers compact structure, distinctive coffee-toned flowers and dependable disease resistance on a durable own-root plant, making it a thoughtful choice if you favour quietly characterful, low-effort roses.
Detailed product attributes
Product Identification Data
Product Name:
CAFÉ OLÉ – yellow-to-light-brown shaded dwarf-mini rose - Moore
Product Type:
pharmaROSA® ORIGINAL - 2-litre own-root potted rose
Meaning of Cultivar Name:
The name playfully alludes to the Spanish exclamation ¡Olé! and to the phrase café au lait (milk coffee), reflecting the flower’s coffee, caramel and russet shades.
Closed Bud:
Milk‑coffee beige base with a delicate rosy–mauve glow.
Newly Opened Flower:
Warm caramel-beige mid tone with a pale peach tint, and a bloom-like, greyish-mauve shade appears on the outer petals.
Full Bloom:
Elegant 'latte' effect: creamy beige at the centre, cooling outwards to a powdery rose‑grey–mauve.
Before Fading:
The warm beige lightens to cream, the lilac–mauve areas fade to a soft rose‑grey with a subtle beige edging.
Colour Fading Description:
As the blooms open, the warm coffee‑brown–beige tones fade to cream, and the purplish‑mauve shades fade to a dusty rose‑grey.
Pollinator Attraction:
Flowers moderately attract pollinators, with single to semi‑double flower forms and fairly accessible stamens providing moderate nectar and pollen availability to visiting insects.
Pollinator-Friendly Rating:
Semi-double-flowered, a variety that attracts pollinators only to a limited extent; mainly ornamental.
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.
