Rose 'Blue for You'
Extraordinary Blue-Flowering Floribunda with Stunning Colour Changes
Rose 'Blue for You' stands as one of the most unusual and captivating floribunda roses available, earning its reputation as the ultimate choice for gardeners seeking truly unique colour in their gardens. This exceptional variety produces abundant clusters of semi-double blooms that begin as rich purple-mauve and fade to a startling slate blue, creating an ever-changing spectacle of extraordinary colour. With its sweet violet-like fragrance, nearly thornless stems, excellent disease resistance, and continuous flowering performance, 'Blue for You' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking something genuinely different and spectacular.
Headlines
- Type: Hardy floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 80cm
- Eventual Spread: 65cm
- Flowering: May to September
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Neat, bushy, compact, rounded growth
- Colour: Rich purple-mauve fading to startling slate blue
- Form: Semi-double flowers with prominent golden stamens
- Size: Medium-sized blooms in clusters
- Petals: Semi-double formation
- Fragrance: Sweet scent reminiscent of violets
Spectacular Flowers
The defining magic of 'Blue for You' lies in its extraordinary colour-changing blooms that showcase nature's artistry in the most remarkable way. Long buds open to reveal semi-double flowers that begin as rich purple-mauve and gradually fade to a startling slate blue, creating a mesmerising display where no two flowering periods look exactly the same.
The semi-double flowers feature prominent golden yellow stamens that create striking contrast against the unusual blue tones, making them exceptionally attractive to bees and beneficial insects. Each cluster contains multiple perfectly formed blooms that exemplify the unique beauty of this remarkable variety, ensuring exceptional garden impact and conversation-starting appeal.
Delightful Fragrance
'Blue for You' offers a sweet scent reminiscent of violets that perfectly complements its extraordinary visual impact. This lovely fragrance creates a delightful olfactory experience that enhances the magical quality of this remarkable variety, adding an extra dimension of charm to its already spectacular presence.
The violet-like fragrance makes this rose perfect for positions where both the stunning colour transformation and delightful scent can be fully appreciated throughout the exceptionally long flowering season.
Outstanding Garden Performance
This superb floribunda demonstrates exceptional garden performance with very healthy, rounded growth that creates a neat, bushy, compact plant with excellent structure throughout the growing season. The variety exhibits strong disease resistance, ensuring reliable performance with minimal intervention required.
'Blue for You' is easily managed and almost thornless, making it perfect for gardens where maintenance ease is important. The excellent disease resistance and robust constitution ensure dependable results year after year, making it ideal for gardeners seeking both extraordinary beauty and practical growing characteristics.
Continuous Flowering Performance
As a repeat-flowering floribunda, 'Blue for You' flowers freely and almost continuously from late spring through to early winter, ensuring months of spectacular colour-changing displays. This exceptionally extended flowering season means the rose maintains its captivating impact throughout virtually the entire growing period.
The variety is very free flowering with lengthy repeating bloom periods, producing continuous displays of the magnificent colour-transforming clusters that make this rose so highly valued by enthusiasts seeking something truly unique and extraordinary.
Growing Requirements
- Position: Full sun for best flowering and colour development
- Soil: Fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil - will tolerate most soil types
- Spacing: Plant approximately 75cm apart to accommodate the compact growth habit
- Care: Standard floribunda care applies - regular watering during dry periods and annual feeding with balanced rose fertiliser
- Note: Colour may vary depending on growing conditions - colour fade is a characteristic of this variety
The adaptable nature and excellent disease resistance make this variety suitable for a wide range of growing conditions whilst maintaining outstanding performance.
Garden Uses
'Blue for You' offers exceptional versatility for various garden applications:
- Specimen Plantings: Perfect as a focal point where its unique colour can be showcased
- Mixed Borders: Provides extraordinary colour and structure in perennial plantings
- Bee Gardens: Excellent for pollinator-friendly gardens with prominent stamens
- Container Gardens: Suitable for containers where colour changes can be closely observed
- Cut Flower Gardens: Outstanding for unique and conversation-starting arrangements
- Novelty Gardens: Essential for collections of unusual and rare roses
- Cottage Gardens: Perfect for informal settings where its magical qualities surprise visitors
Breeding Excellence
'Blue for You' was bred by James Austin in 2007, representing the innovative breeding work of the Austin family's continued development of exceptional garden roses. This prestigious breeding background ensures both quality and unique characteristics that set this variety apart from conventional roses.
The variety's development by the Austin breeding programme confirms its exceptional garden performance and distinctive colour characteristics, making it a trusted choice for gardeners seeking something genuinely different.
Perfect for Cutting
The strong stems and unique colour-changing blooms make 'Blue for You' exceptional for cut flower arrangements. The semi-double flowers combined with their sweet violet fragrance create arrangements that provide extraordinary visual impact and serve as perfect conversation pieces, ideal for special occasions and indoor enjoyment.
Companion Planting
The extraordinary purple-mauve to slate blue blooms of 'Blue for You' work beautifully with silver foliage plants that enhance the unusual colour tones, whilst white or yellow companions create striking contrasts. The neat, compact growth provides excellent structure without overwhelming companion plants.
Care and Maintenance
'Blue for You' is an easily managed variety that requires standard floribunda care. The excellent disease resistance and nearly thornless nature mean minimal intervention is required for both pest management and safe handling, making it suitable for gardeners seeking unique roses with practical growing advantages.
Regular deadheading of spent bloom clusters encourages the continuous flowering habit throughout the extended season, whilst annual pruning maintains the neat, compact form and encourages vigorous new growth for optimal colour development.
Why Choose 'Blue for You'?
Rose 'Blue for You' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a truly extraordinary rose that offers something genuinely different from conventional varieties. Its combination of unique colour-changing blooms, sweet violet fragrance, excellent disease resistance, and nearly thornless stems make it both a spectacular garden feature and practical growing choice.
Whether you're creating a conversation piece in mixed borders, seeking an unforgettable cut flower variety, or wanting a rose that embodies pure uniqueness and wonder, 'Blue for You' delivers outstanding results. Its extraordinary colour transformation, proven performance, and exceptional characteristics make it an essential choice for gardeners who appreciate roses that combine horticultural excellence with truly remarkable and unforgettable beauty.
Reasons to Buy Roses from Jacksons Nurseries
(1) ‘Excellent’ on Trustpilot
Buy with confidence from the only online rose grower rated ‘Excellent’ 4.9* on Trustpilot. We have been a trusted supplier of roses for 3 generations. We take pride in growing our own roses in the field before potting them up, allowing for meticulous quality control to sale.
(2) Best Prices Guaranteed – Direct from the Grower
Save £££s by buying direct from a grower you can trust. We’ve already price checked all of our roses against competitors so you don’t have to. We are so confident we offer the best value, if you find a rose of the same type and grade elsewhere, we’ll beat it by 10%.
(3) 12 Month Plants Guarantee
We offer a 12 month guarantee on every plant that you buy from us that we have classified as Fully Hardy. If a plant you've bought from us fails in the first year, we will either replace it or refund you. See our satisfaction guarantee page for more details and conditions.
(4) Third generation family-owned nursery specialising in roses
Jackson’s Nurseries is a 3rd generation family owned business which has been growing roses for over 60 years. Roses have always been our specialty, as you can see from the colourful array of blooms in the background to the old family photo below. Today, we offer over 200 different varieties of floribundas, hybrid teas, patio, shrub and David Austin roses. Our roses are initially grown in the field before being potted up for website dispatch.
(5) Grown at altitude to produce strong, healthy plants
Our North Staffordshire nursery is situated at 250 metres above sea level, producing strong, hardy plants that will thrive in your garden. Our nursery sits on clay, so you can be sure our roses can handle heavy soil too.
(6) Help & Advice and Aftercare
We are help to help you with any help and advice you need in choosing, planting and growing your roses before, during and after your purchase from us. The help and advice section of our website has extensive information, see below some examples of articles you may find useful:
- Different types of roses and what they each mean
- Guide to climbing roses
- Guide to floribunda roses
- Guide to hybrid tea roses
- How to plant a climbing rose
- How to grow hybrid tea roses
How our roses are supplied through the seasons
All our roses are cultivated in an open field and are carefully dug up when the weather is optimal, typically in October or November. While other nurseries supply roses bare root, once our field-grown roses have been potted up we supply them freshly potted. This better protects the roots and helps keep them moist in transit, ensuring your roses arrive as healthy as when they left our nursery. So don’t be alarmed if the compost comes away from the roots when you remove them from the pot.
The roses can remain in their pots over the winter, as long as they are properly watered and fed, but it's best to plant them out as soon as possible. If you do plant them straight away make sure the planting mix is prepared first, hold the root close to the top of the hole as you tip the pot upside down and try to keep as much compost as possible from falling away. They will already be pruned, so no additional pruning is needed except for trimming any dead tips. Regular pruning can start in late winter, the year after planting.
Rose Types
Hybrid Tea Roses (HT)
Hybrid Tea roses are probably the most popular group of roses, available in both bush and standard form they have long flower stems and shapely blooms. Blooms are typically medium to large in size, with many petals which form a distinct central cone.
Floribunda Roses (FL)
Floribunda roses bears its flowers in clusters or trusses, with several blooms open at time in each truss. A popular choice the Floribunda rose group is unrivalled for colour, reliability and longevity as a bedding display however the flower form in generally inferior to the Hybrid Tea.
Patio Roses (PATIO)
Patio roses were introduced in the 1980’s and the group now contains several popular varieties. Generally low-growing roses that were once grouped with the Floribuna group but have now been put in their own group of compact versions. Usually growing about 50cm high they make excellent plants for patio containers or at the front of borders.
Climbing Roses (CLM)
Climbing roses as the name suggests are the perfect choice for covering a wall or screen. Often grouped together with Ramblers, Climbers tend to have stiffer stems, larger flowers but smaller trusses than Ramblers.
Rambling Roses (RAM)
Rambling roses are often grouped with Climbing Roses but the ramblers tend to have a more pliable stems that can be used to run along the soil to use as groundcover or can be used to make weeping standards.
Miniature Roses (MINI)
Miniature roses have increased in popularity in recent years due to their versatility, even grown indoors as temporary pot plants that grow to a maximum height of 40cm. An ideal choice for planting in tubs, edging beds and rockeries.
English Roses (ENG)
Often referred to as Austin or David Austin Roses, English roses are hybrids of old English roses and more modern varieties bread by David Austin to provide the best of both, mixing old rose shapes and scents with more modern colour range, compact habits and repeat flowering.
Planting Advice
Roses like a generous root space, so dig a deep hole approximately twice as wide as the current root system, preferably adding composted organic matter to the soil. Never plant into frozen soil – in winter, await a frost-free period. Carefully remove the pot and gently tease the roots apart to spread them around the hole. Position the plant so that the ‘bud point’ (the place where the shoots emerge from, where the cultivated rose was grafted onto the rootstock) is at soil level. Replace the soil, firming it down gently, then water copiously. Ideally, a general purpose fertiliser should be applied to the surrounding soil as a top dressing. We also highly recommend the use of Rose Rootgrow, which provides a friendly fungus that prevents ‘rose replant syndrome’.
Buying our Roses
Pot Size
Most of our roses are supplied in a 4 litre pot although this may vary slightly depending on rose variety. If the size of pot differes significatly from 4 litres then we will make this clear somewhere on the product page.
Seasonality
Our roses are grown outdoors and as such are subject to seasonal changes. As we sell potted stock throughout the year your rose may not arrive and look like you expect it to. If you are uncertain how your rose will arrive (especially if buying for a gift) then we suggest you contact us prior to making a purchase.
Freshly Potted
Each year a new batch of roses is potted up ready for the following season. Once potted (usually November/December time) they go on sale as 'Freshly Potted'. If you purchase a freshly potted rose and plant it soon after you will find that when removing the rose from the pot there will be a lot of loose soil as the roots will not have had time to grow and bind the compost.
Pruned/Cut Back
In autumn the majority of our roses have finished flowering and begin to look untidy, at this point we prune them quite hard in preparation for the following season. We continue to sell roses throughout the year, when a rose has been pruned in such a way we will identify it has being so. If you are not sure what to expect then please ask prior to making a purchase. Some garden centres/supermarkets sell stock that has been grown abroad or in poly-tunnels so they look 'picture perfect' out of season, while this is ideal for a gift they are short lived once planted.
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