Roses UK

Creamy-white #roses from our pic archive. Champagne Moment, shrub rose. Gardenia, rambler. Pax, hybrid musk climber. Celine Forestier, climber. Have a good day everyone, take care. 🌱

Back to our pic archive for summer #roses. It’s A Whiter Shade of Pale. Hybrid tea #rose plentiful, fragrant blooms & excellent disease resistance. #StormBoelo making its presence felt for many of us, take care everyone, hope your homes, gardens & animals are safe. 🌱

You’re My Everything, Rose of the Year 2025 for #PinkFriday Batten the hatches, it’s very breezy out there! Take care everyone, stay safe. #roses #StormAusten 🌱

Summer #roses for #ThrowbackThursday Imogen, Gentle Hermione, Lucky!, Special Child. Have a good day everyone, take care. 🌱

As one might expect in October, it’s dull, dismal and damp. So a quick rummage in our #roses pic archives for a boost of summer colour. Bright & Breezy. Red Flower Carpet, Gold Spice, Morning Mist. Hope it brightens your day! Take care, stay safe. 🌱

It’s a greyish Monday morning, so we’re thinking #pink The King’s Rose, English Shrub Rose. See You in Pink, Moments and Memories (both Persica hybrids). You’re My Everything, Floribunda and Rose of the Year 2025. Have a good week everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

Over on Substack, Jo Thompson (the garden designer) listed a few recommendations for bare root #roses. Here’s a few of ours: Peach Melba (climber) It’s A Wonderful Life, Coral Gardens (both shrubs) & A Whiter Shade of Pale (hybrid tea). All highly recommended. 🌱

‘Solid as a Rock’ Persica #rose bred by Weeks. Available from jonestherose.co.uk. Puts us in mind of the hit song ‘Solid’, aka ‘Solid as a Rock’. Ashford & Simpson, 1984 (yikes!) ‘And now it's solid Solid as a rock That's what this love is That's what we've got…’ 🎶 Oops, sorry for the ear worm! 🌱

Random roses to brighten a dull day. Meteor, Peach Melba, Lady of Shallot, Clementina Carbonieri. Have a good day everyone, take care. #ThrowbackThursday #roses 🌱

Mid-October blue skies and Buff Beauty. Happy #RoseWednesday everyone, have a good day. 🌱

Dainty Pemberton hybrid musk #roses pink Cornelia and lemon-yellow Danae, still blooming in early October. Have a good day everyone, take care. #SundayYellow 🌱

Tis autumnal but mild, we’re heading towards the last rose blooms of the season… Crepuscule, Sweet Pretty, Felicia, Perle d’Or. Have a good weekend everyone, take care. #roses #FlowersonFriday 🌱

Peach Melba, climbing rose bred by Kordes. Rose of the Year 2023. BARB Gold Standard Award. Fragrance Award, The Hague. International Trials Awards: Barcelona, Courtray, Le Roeulx, Paris, Rome, Warsaw. Happy #RoseWednesday have a good day everyone, take care. 🌱

‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ Rose of the Year 2022. Have a good day everyone, take care. #RoseADay #roses #roseoftheyear 🌱

Rose of the Year 2026 ‘Coral Gardens’. Happy Saturday everyone, have a good day, take care. #roses #roseoftheyear 🌱

Here’s hoping October weather is kind - gentle rain, a little soft sunshine and not too windy. Am ever the optimist! Have a good day everyone, take care. #ThrowbackThursday Rose of the Year 2024 ‘Meteor’. #roses #autumn 🌱

Petite roses for #RoseWednesday ‘Cecile Brunner’ Polyantha Rose (this is the shrub variety). ‘Rouletii’ (aka Rosa chinensis 'Minima') Miniature Rose. Have a good day everyone, take care. 🌱

Trawling through our rose archive for #SundayYellow I give you Hybrid Musk Rose ‘Francesca’, bred by Pemberton. Her loosely shaped, semi-double, tea-scented blooms are so pretty, sadly they don’t last for long. Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

Persica hybrid ‘Bees Paradise’ (bred by Rosen Tantau) basking in the sun. Hard to believe today is the Autumn Equinox. Happy #RoseWednesday everyone, have a good day. #autumnequinox #persicarosetrials 🌱

Today is ‘International Day of Peace’. Observed by UN Member States. Also known as ‘World Peace Day’. If only… #InternationalDayofPeace #Peace #Roses 🌱

A quartet of #roses for #Sundayyellow The Poet’s Wife, Abbeyfield Gold, Honey Bee Mine, Peter’s Persica. Have a good day everyone! 🌱

Hip, Hip, Hurray - it’s Friday! Rosa Canina (Dog rose) hips, ‘Coral Gardens’ Rose of the Year 2026. Have a good weekend everyone, take care. #FlowersonFriday #roses #rosehips 🌱

Good to hear they are doing well. 🙂

Hybrid Musk #Rose ‘Danae’ resting on Erigeron #Daisy #RoseWednesday greetings! Have a good day. 🌱

A dampish September Sunday and the hybrid musk ladies keep flowering on: Cornelia, Felicia, Buff Beauty. Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses #autumn 🌱

The aptly named ‘With Courage’ #rose introduced by Peter Beales Roses for the RNLI at the 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. #roses 🌱

In remembrance for those who died, those who selflessly came to help, and all those since and still affected by the monstrous events 25 years ago on 11th September 2001. #NineEleven 🇺🇸 🌱

We have rain, and very welcome it is too! ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’. Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

Simply lovely. 🙂

‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ hybrid tea, bred by Colin Pearce of Limes New Roses. awarded RHS AGM. Have a good day everyone, take care. #RoseWednesday 🌱

And just like that… it’s #meteorologicalautumn. ‘Cornelia’ in April, ‘Francesca’ in May, ‘Peach Melba’ in June, ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ in July, ‘Penelope’ in August. Here’s to a gentle #September Take care everyone. 🌱

Have waited weeks to see ‘raindrops on roses’. ‘Vanessa Bell’ and ‘Lady of Shallot’. Happy Saturday everyone, take care and enjoy the last few days of meteorological summer. #roses 🌱

Dedicating our #RoseWednesday post to the one and only Dolly Parton. A talented and generous lady. Rosa ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’. #DollyParton 🌱

At last! We have steady, proper rain! If you need it, hope you have some too. ‘Cécile Brunner’ Dwarf Polyantha. #RoseWednesday 🌱

#Roses ‘Penelope’ & ‘Sweet Pretty’ have been absolute troupers, flowering almost continuously. Looks like another week where the BBC weather app shows tantalising symbols for rain in the next few days, only for them to have disappeared the next time I look. Whatever the weather, have a good week.🌱

Art Deco, Rose of the year 2027, such a beautiful variety with these gorgeous flowers 🌱🇬🇧 kindly gifted by @rosesuk.bsky.social #flowers #roses #gardening

‘Flower Carpet Peach’ (aka JoJo Peach) a Persica Hybrid bred by Noack. Thinking of those affected by & fighting the devastating fires in the West Midlands & the New Forest National Park. Allegedly the last day of the current heatwave, hope that is true. Take care everyone, stay safe. 🌱

Persica hybrid ‘Bright As A Button’ looking just that yesterday at the Persica Rose Trials, currently underway at @RHSWisley The Trials and Gardens Teams are doing a splendid job, keeping the trials, borders and features looking good - as ‘fresh as a daisy’ you might say. #rosewednesday 🌱

Ellie, the garden supervisor #Internationalcatday 🌱

After a few days of welcome slightly cooler weather, plus an unexpected hour of drizzle, it’s back to tropical temperatures from Sunday. Ah well, we’ll just keep trudging around with the watering cans. Have a good weekend everyone, take care. ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’. #roses 🌱

Second flush flowers for #RoseWednesday All hybrid musk #roses bred by Pemberton or Bentall. Cornelia, looking her palest. Francesca, the prettiest flowers, sadly they don’t last very long. Autumn Delight, lemon buds paling to white so quickly. Buff Beauty, the tiniest flower, but a welcome sight. 🌱

Rose of the Year in 2015 and still worthy of the title!

Hello #August What do you have in store for us? Less intense heat and some gentle, steady rain would be welcome. #Roses Sir David Beckham and It’s A Wonderful Life. Agapanthus (and Ellie) with crispy Astrantia just visible in the foreground. Have a good weekend everyone, take care. 🌱

‘Honey, Bee Mine’, bred by Colin Dickson. Happy #RoseWednesday everyone, have a good day, take care. 🌱

Our thoughts are with those affected by, or working to contain wildfires in Scotland, France and Spain. Such catastrophic loss for humans, wildlife and the environment is devastating. Take care, be safe. 🌱

Second flushes (earlier than usual) for hybrid musk #roses Penelope, Prosperity, Felicia and Autumn Delight. Softer sunshine, stillness and a little fresher this morning. Hesitate to say… for a fleeting moment it felt like the end of August. Have a good weekend everyone, take care. 🌱

‘Strawberry Hill’, ‘Desdemona’, ‘Tranquility’, ‘Imogen’. #DavidAustinWednesday #davidaustinroses #RoseWednesday #EnglishRoses 🌱

We were saddened to hear of the death of David Austin. He leaves a legacy of fine English Roses in gardens, world-wide. As the Chairman of David Austin Roses he turned the nursery started by his father, the late David C H Austin into a globally respected company. Our condolences to David’s family.🌱

It’s good morning and happy #Monday from us and ‘Princess Charlene de Monaco’, bred by #Meilland A return to less tropical temperatures for which we’re grateful. Have a good week everyone, take care. 🌱

You’re My Everything, Rose of the Year 2025. #RoseWednesday 🌱