Rose 'Ballerina' - Polyantha Rose
A graceful polyantha rose that brings delicate elegance to any garden space with its abundant displays of exquisite pink and white blooms, subtle apple blossom fragrance, and exceptional flowering performance throughout the season, perfectly complemented by small neat green foliage and compact dancing growth that makes it ideal for containers, small gardens, borders, and enchanting patio displays where ethereal beauty creates captivating garden performances.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous polyantha rose
- Eventual Height: 1.2m
- Eventual Spread: 1.2m
- Flowering Period: July to September
- Flower Colour: Pink with white centres and white edges
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy, with graceful arching habit
- Flower Type: Single blooms in abundant sprays
- Fragrance: Delicate apple blossom fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Ballerina' exemplifies graceful garden excellence, producing continuous displays of spectacular pink and white blooms that create enchanting beauty throughout the extended growing season. This outstanding variety transforms compact garden spaces with its perfectly proportioned bushy growth that showcases abundant sprays of single blooms, where individual flowers feature beautiful pink petals with pristine white centres and delicate white edges in magnificent arrangements that create ethereal visual presence in any small-scale setting. The delicate colour palette makes this rose particularly impressive for cottage gardens and romantic patio displays, representing grace, elegance, and garden poetry. The flowers emerge in repeated displays throughout the season with excellent repeat flowering, creating sustained displays that reach perfect proportions with consistent appealing beauty. The subtle apple blossom fragrance enhances the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that complement both traditional container displays and naturalistic landscape designs with graceful beauty and reliable compact performance.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Ballerina' lies in its abundant single blooms that showcase delicate formation with spectacular pink and white elegance and perfect compact presence. Each flower displays beautifully formed structure with single petals featuring soft pink colour with pristine white centres and white edges in magnificent spray arrangements, creating displays of exceptional beauty and graceful charm. The delicate pink and white colour provides enchanting displays that maintain their ethereal sophistication throughout the flowering season, creating spectacular visual dance that symbolises grace and garden elegance. The flowers are produced in abundant sprays with excellent repeat flowering characteristics, emerging continuously throughout the summer that add magnificent anticipation to the compact garden display. The subtle apple blossom fragrance complements the delicate visual appeal, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both container applications and small garden enjoyment with graceful colour sophistication and gentle aromatic charm.
Growth Characteristics
The compact bushy growth provides excellent proportioned structure for impressive container displays and small garden features, making this variety particularly valuable for patios, balconies, and small garden applications where space efficiency and spectacular flowering coverage are essential. The small neat green foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the pink and white bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent vigour and fresh appeal. The graceful arching growth habit ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial visual impact that fits perfectly into diverse compact garden settings, with the manageable size making it ideal for both container cultivation and prominent small garden positions where its ethereal beauty can be fully appreciated.
Flowering Performance
Throughout the summer to autumn, 'Ballerina' delivers exceptional flowering displays with excellent repeat blooming that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces abundant sprays of pink and white blooms consistently, creating impressive visual impact with exceptional performance that ensures ongoing garden grace. The individual single blooms develop with delicate formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect pink and white colour sophistication and pristine centre brightness, whilst the generous spray size ensures impressive presence for extended periods despite the compact plant size. The free flowering nature with excellent repeat characteristics ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the ongoing delicate blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance compact garden spaces with their ethereal colour palette and subtle apple blossom fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Ballerina' thrives in full sun to partial shade with fertile, well-prepared, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal compact performance and colour development. The rose adapts excellently to container cultivation and performs brilliantly in patio pots, small borders, and compact garden spaces where the pink and white colours can create maximum visual impact in limited areas. For best results, plant in sunny to lightly shaded locations with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter or quality container compost to support the healthy compact growth and neat green foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding during the growing season and responds exceptionally well to container cultivation practices, whilst the perfect compact size makes it suitable for diverse small-scale situations from patio containers to graceful garden borders where its delicate qualities and pink colour intensity can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Ballerina' demonstrates excellent disease resistance characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with outstanding vigour despite its compact size. The variety shows excellent hardiness with good cold tolerance, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable compact plantings. The small neat green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with excellent disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking dependable compact plantings with manageable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable colour development and flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Care and Maintenance
'Ballerina' requires standard polyantha rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and compact development. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular watering during dry periods to support the healthy compact growth and abundant flower production. For container plants, ensure consistent moisture and regular feeding throughout the growing season. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention with standard care practices, making it ideal for gardeners seeking reliable compact plantings with graceful impact. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular colour display throughout the season, whilst light annual pruning in late winter maintains the compact structure and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Ballerina' excels in graceful container displays and elegant garden features where its delicate beauty and compact proportions can be fully appreciated. The pink and white colour makes it ideal for romantic container displays, eye-catching small garden features, and ethereal landscapes where gentle colour impact and reliable compact performance are essential. Perfect for patio pots, small beds, front of borders, and cottage garden displays, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers that enhance floral arrangements with delicate colour for special occasions and graceful displays. The compact growth and excellent repeat flowering make it particularly suitable for creating stunning focal points in small gardens and container collections, whilst the perfect size and dancing nature ensure it provides impressive presence in limited spaces where its gentle colour creates spectacular compact elegance.
Container Cultivation
The compact bushy growth makes 'Ballerina' excellently suited to container cultivation in various sized pots and planters. The rose thrives in containers with good drainage and quality compost, responding well to regular feeding and consistent watering where the compact growth can create maximum flowering impact in limited space. Choose containers at least 50cm in diameter with good drainage holes, using quality rose or multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Regular container care during the growing season ensures optimal flowering coverage and healthy development, maximising the spectacular compact display and seasonal enjoyment.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Ballerina' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous compact displays and outstanding performance. Spring brings the emergence of small neat green foliage and strong new bushy growth, building anticipation for the main spectacular flowering display. The magnificent pink and white blooms from summer through autumn with excellent repeat flowering provide months of delicate colour that maintains its graceful appeal throughout the season, creating consistent ethereal impact. The attractive small neat green foliage remains healthy throughout the season with excellent disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the compact flower displays, whilst the graceful arching structure provides attractive garden interest year-round.
Fragrance Profile
'Ballerina' features subtle apple blossom fragrance that will gently enchant the senses, complementing the graceful visual display and enhancing the compact garden experience. The apple blossom perfume adds fresh aromatic appeal to small spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for patio positions where both visual compact beauty and delicate fragrant interest are desired for peaceful occasions. The subtle apple blossom fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where gentle scent contributes to the ethereal garden experience, particularly near seating areas and outdoor entertaining spaces where the compact perfume creates lasting graceful impressions.
Companion Planting
The pink and white colouring of 'Ballerina' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and soft colour schemes in compact areas. The graceful pink and white colour works beautifully with plants that provide harmonising or contrasting tones, whilst silver and grey foliage plants provide excellent backdrop that allows the colour delicacy to shine in small spaces. Deep purple and lavender flowers provide striking contrasts that highlight the pink and white blooms, whilst complementary container plants and cottage garden perennials can create stunning compact combinations throughout the growing season.
Patio Garden Integration
The excellent compact qualities and graceful nature make 'Ballerina' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to integrate delicate beauty into patio displays and elegant garden features. The bushy compact growth, abundant single blooms with gentle colour intensity, and subtle apple blossom fragrance create outstanding container displays that provide lasting seasonal enhancement whilst maintaining the graceful significance of the pink and white colour drama in limited spaces. The reliable compact growth ensures impressive flowering impact whilst maintaining perfect proportions, making it ideal for both patio garden beauty and elegant container displays that provide dancing statements for graceful garden areas with excellent performance.
Contemporary Appeal
'Ballerina' represents exceptional polyantha rose breeding that combines graceful beauty with perfect compact proportions and contemporary appeal, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking distinctive roses with elegant characteristics. The delicate pink and white colour offers exceptional visual grace whilst maintaining classic rose appeal and performance, making it particularly suitable for contemporary garden designs and modern container displays where gentle colour statements and space efficiency are important considerations.
Graceful Garden Value
'Ballerina' offers gardeners an elegant variety that combines delicate beauty with exceptional reliability and graceful appeal. The variety's enchanting appearance and dependable compact growth habit have made it popular among gardeners who appreciate roses that combine visual grace with reliable garden performance and suitability for container applications and romantic spaces that need a touch of delicate elegance.
Why Choose 'Ballerina'?
Rose 'Ballerina' represents the perfect combination of graceful compact beauty, delicate colour elegance, and outstanding reliability. The abundant sprays of single pink and white blooms with their subtle apple blossom fragrance provide exceptional displays from summer through autumn with excellent repeat flowering, whilst the compact healthy growth and excellent disease resistance ensure dependable performance with standard maintenance requirements. Whether grown for elegant container displays, graceful small garden features, patio decoration, or simply for its delicate beauty and reliable compact nature, this outstanding polyantha rose offers exceptional value that combines ethereal appeal with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates grace and garden poetry with compact elegance that enhances any small garden setting where delicacy, reliability, and perfect graceful impact are appreciated.
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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