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Rose 'Albertine' - Rambling Rose
A magnificent vigorous rambling rose producing abundant clusters of intensely fragrant salmon-pink blooms with copper-pink tones, complemented by glossy mid-green foliage, strong thorny stems, and spectacular once-yearly flowering displays, making it perfect for walls, pergolas, arches, and large garden structures.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous rambling rose
- Eventual Height: 6 metres
- Eventual Spread: 2.5 metres
- Flowering Period: June-July
- Flower Colour: Salmon-pink with copper-pink reverse and coral backs
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, arching, rambling with thorny stems
- Flower Type: Fully double cup-shaped blooms with 26-40 petals
- Fragrance: Intensely fragrant with powerful fruity perfume
Overview
Rose 'Albertine' stands as one of the most spectacular rambling roses ever bred, producing abundant clusters of intensely fragrant salmon-pink blooms with extraordinary vigour and breathtaking floral displays. This magnificent heritage variety creates unforgettable garden experiences with its large 9cm cup-shaped flowers that display exquisite colouring, where each bloom features salmon-pink petals with deeper copper-pink reverse and coral backs that create stunning visual effects during its spectacular early summer flowering season. The intensely fragrant perfume makes this rose legendary among gardeners, with one of the strongest and most memorable scents in the rambling rose family. The flowers are produced in abundant clusters of 3-7 blooms from reddish-salmon buds, creating a magnificent once-yearly display that transforms garden structures. The powerful fruity fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating truly memorable garden experiences that enhance both traditional cottage gardens and contemporary landscape designs with exceptional heritage charm and unmatched aromatic intensity.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Albertine' lies in its abundant clusters of spectacular blooms that showcase perfect rambling rose character with intense fragrance and substantial garden presence. Each flower displays classic cup-shaped formation with 26-40 fully double petals featuring salmon-pink colouring with copper-pink reverse and coral backs in harmonious colour arrangements, creating blooms of remarkable visual beauty and exceptional aromatic appeal. The intensely fragrant perfume provides one of the strongest scents among rambling roses, maintaining its powerful intensity throughout the flowering season and creating memorable aromatic experiences that symbolise heritage garden tradition. The flowers are produced abundantly in clusters during the spectacular early summer flush, opening from attractively formed reddish-salmon buds that add anticipation to the magnificent garden display. The powerful fruity fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating unforgettable garden experiences that enhance both structural garden applications and everyday garden enjoyment with unmatched aromatic intensity.
Growth Characteristics
The vigorous arching stems provide exceptional strength for covering large garden structures, making this variety particularly valuable for walls, pergolas, arches, and boundary applications where substantial coverage and structural support are essential. The glossy mid-green Wichuraiana-type foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the salmon-pink blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance and vigour. The strong thorny purple-tinted stems ensure excellent security applications whilst providing the flexibility for training over diverse garden structures, with the substantial size making it suitable for large gardens, extensive walls, and prominent structural features where its magnificent flowering display can be fully appreciated and its heritage character celebrated.
Flowering Performance
During early to mid-summer (June-July), 'Albertine' delivers one of the most spectacular flowering displays in the rose world with an abundant once-yearly flush that creates breathtaking garden impact. The plant produces masses of clustered blooms consistently across its entire framework, creating substantial visual and aromatic impact with outstanding performance that ensures unforgettable garden experiences. The individual blooms develop with perfect cup-shaped formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the exquisite salmon-pink colouring and intense fragrance, whilst the fully double structure ensures each flower maintains its beautiful appearance and powerful aromatic appeal for extended periods. The magnificent once-yearly flowering nature ensures a truly spectacular seasonal highlight, with the abundant clustered blooms providing intensive focal points that transform garden structures with their heritage beauty and legendary perfume.
Growing Conditions
'Albertine' thrives in full sun to partial shade with fertile, well-amended, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst tolerating various soil conditions for optimal performance and flower development. The rose adapts remarkably well to different aspects including shadier positions, responding excellently to both sunny and partially shaded locations where the salmon-pink colours and intense fragrance can be appreciated. For best results, provide strong structural support with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the vigorous growth and spectacular flowering displays. The variety benefits from annual feeding and responds well to standard rambling rose care practices, whilst the substantial vigour makes it essential to provide adequate space and robust structural support for diverse garden applications from walls and fences to pergolas and large garden features.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Albertine' demonstrates excellent hardiness characteristics with outstanding resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with good disease resistance for a rambling rose. The variety shows strong resistance to seasonal variations and weather conditions, making it highly reliable for gardeners seeking dependable structural plantings with heritage character. The glossy mid-green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with natural disease resilience, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking reliable heritage plantings with manageable maintenance requirements considering its vigorous nature. The hardy constitution ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable flowering performance and structural coverage throughout the growing season.
Care and Maintenance
'Albertine' requires standard rambling rose maintenance with particular attention to structural support and annual pruning to manage its vigorous growth and maintain optimal flowering performance. Provide robust structural support capable of bearing the substantial weight of mature growth, with regular feeding in early spring using balanced fertiliser to support the vigorous development and spectacular flower production. The vigorous nature means this variety benefits from annual pruning after flowering to maintain shape and promote healthy new growth, making it suitable for gardeners prepared to manage substantial rambling roses. Regular training and tying-in of new growth ensures optimal structural coverage, whilst the thorny nature requires careful handling with protective equipment during maintenance activities and training operations.
Garden Applications
'Albertine' excels in large structural garden applications and heritage garden features where its spectacular flowering performance and vigorous character can be fully appreciated. The magnificent salmon-pink clusters make it ideal for cottage gardens, heritage displays, and traditional landscapes where substantial coverage and intense fragrance are essential for authentic period character. Perfect for training over walls, pergolas, arches, and large garden structures, this rose provides outstanding visual impact with its spectacular once-yearly flowering display that creates unforgettable seasonal highlights. The vigorous growth and abundant clustering make it particularly suitable for covering extensive areas and large structures, whilst the intense fragrance ensures it provides memorable aromatic experiences that define heritage garden character and traditional English garden atmosphere.
Structural Support Requirements
The vigorous rambling growth makes 'Albertine' essential for substantial structural support applications including strong pergolas, robust arches, and secure wall-training systems. The rose requires heavy-duty supports capable of bearing considerable mature weight, making it perfect for established garden structures and permanent installations where long-term structural coverage is desired. The strong thorny stems provide excellent security applications whilst requiring careful initial training and ongoing management to achieve optimal coverage and flowering performance on chosen structures.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Albertine' provides exceptional seasonal interest with spectacular early summer flowering and attractive structural presence. Spring brings the emergence of glossy mid-green foliage and the formation of clustered reddish-salmon buds, building anticipation for the magnificent flowering display. The spectacular salmon-pink blooms during June-July provide weeks of intense colour and legendary fragrance that creates the garden's seasonal highlight, whilst occasional later blooms extend the flowering interest. The attractive foliage remains healthy throughout the season, providing perfect year-round structural coverage, whilst the strong arching framework provides attractive architectural interest during dormant periods and supports the heritage garden character.
Fragrance Profile
'Albertine' features one of the most intensely fragrant perfumes among rambling roses, with powerful fruity scent that defines the garden experience and creates legendary aromatic impact. The exceptional fragrance intensity adds unmatched scented appeal to garden structures whilst making this rose particularly valuable for areas where intense aromatic interest contributes to heritage garden authenticity. The powerful perfume enhances garden atmosphere significantly and makes this variety essential for traditional gardens where legendary scent contributes to the overall heritage experience, particularly during peak flowering when the intense fragrance creates unforgettable aromatic memories that epitomise English garden tradition.
Companion Planting
The salmon-pink colouring with copper-pink reverse of 'Albertine' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and heritage colour schemes. The salmon tones work beautifully with purple and blue perennials for traditional contrast that highlights both the heritage character and aromatic intensity, whilst silver and grey foliage plants complement the copper tones perfectly. White and cream flowers provide harmonious displays that allow the salmon-pink hues to dominate, whilst the intense fragrance makes it suitable for planting with other heritage aromatic plants that enhance the garden's traditional atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Historical Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Albertine' is its exceptional heritage significance as a classic rambling rose bred by Barbier Frères & Co. in 1921, making it uniquely meaningful for traditional and cottage garden displays. The salmon-pink beauty and legendary fragrance represent the finest achievements in heritage rose breeding, symbolising English garden tradition, cottage garden authenticity, and classic rambling rose character. This heritage significance, combined with spectacular garden performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both historical importance and practical excellence for traditional garden themes and heritage landscape applications.
Cut Flower Potential
The spectacular clustered blooms make 'Albertine' valuable for gardeners who wish to bring heritage beauty and intense fragrance indoors for special occasions and traditional arrangements. The strong stems, abundant clustered blooms with salmon-pink colouring, and powerful fruity fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the heritage significance of the spectacular colour combinations. The abundant once-yearly flowering provides generous cutting opportunities during peak season, making it ideal for creating magnificent traditional arrangements that capture the essence of English garden heritage.
Wildlife and Pollinator Value
The abundant clustered blooms make 'Albertine' highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and beneficial pollinators, contributing significantly to garden biodiversity and ecological health. The single spectacular flowering flush provides concentrated nectar and pollen resources during early summer, making it particularly valuable for supporting pollinator populations during crucial breeding seasons whilst enhancing the garden's natural ecosystem.
Cottage Garden Authenticity
'Albertine' represents the quintessential cottage garden rambling rose, frequently featured in English gardening literature and traditional garden photography. The combination of salmon-pink beauty, intense fragrance, and vigorous character makes it essential for authentic cottage garden recreations and heritage garden restorations where traditional rambling roses define the garden's character and historical authenticity.
Why Choose 'Albertine'?
Rose 'Albertine' represents the perfect combination of heritage significance, spectacular beauty, and legendary fragrance. The abundant clustered blooms in magnificent salmon-pink with copper-pink reverse and their intensely powerful perfume provide unforgettable displays during the spectacular early summer flush, whilst the vigorous growth and excellent hardiness ensure dependable performance with appropriate structural support and standard rambling rose maintenance. Whether grown for heritage gardens, cottage garden authenticity, structural coverage, or simply for its exceptional beauty and legendary fragrance, this outstanding rambling rose offers distinctive value that combines meaningful historical significance with spectacular garden performance, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates traditional English garden heritage with aromatic intensity and visual magnificence that transforms any garden structure into a seasonal highlight of unmatched beauty and legendary fragrance.
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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