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Variety: Hybrid tea
Size: Bare Root (November delivery)
Rose Class: Hybrid Tea
Mature Height (?):

What does this mean?

Mature Height

You can expect the height to reach somewhere within this estimate. It is given as a guide but can vary dependant on several factors such as soil quality and position.

For Conifers and Trees this may be the height in 10-20 years, eventually the plant may exceed this height.

90cm
Mature Spread (?):

What does this mean?

Mature Spread

You can expect the plant to spread somewhere within this range estimate. It is given as a guide but can vary dependant on several factors such as soil quality and position.

For Conifers and Trees this may be the spread in 10-20 years, eventually the plant may exceed this.

80cm
Flower Colour (?):

What does this mean?

Flower Colour

Flowers come in a vast variety of colours from pure white to almost black. Colour can be affected by a number of factors including environment and diet. Use the photographs as a guide and expect variations.

Purple
Flowering Time (?):

What does this mean?

Flowering Time

A plants development is synchronised with the changing seasons and flowering is one of several changes that occur at the appropriate time of year dependent on the specific plant. While our meteorological seasons are defined by specific dates; there can be two or the weeks difference in the start and end of the horticultural 'season' between the north and south of the UK.

Summer - Autumn
Foliage (?):

What does this mean?

Evergreen

Plants that have leaves all year round are classified as evergreen. They can however lose leaves sporadically throughout the year.

Deciduous

Deciduous plants drop their leaves in autumn, look bare in winter and put out new leaves again in spring. Some plants such a Beech retain their dead leaves until the new spring growth.

Semi-evergreen

There are exceptions, some plant drop their leaves in cold winters but keep them if it is mild. These are classified as Semi-evergreen.

Deciduous
Fragrant (?):

What does this mean?
Fragrant
For plants that are fragrant the level of fragrance may vary, results may improve by planting in larger blocks. The fragrance may come from flowers or foliage.

Yes
Growth Rate (?):

What does this mean?

Growth rate of a plant will determine how fast the plant reaches it ultimate height and is affected by four main factors: temperature, nutrients, light, and water.

Fast
Hardiness (?):

What does this mean?

Fully Hardy

Hardy in most places throughout the UK even in severe winters (to -15)

Half Hardy

Hardy throughout most of the UK (to -10)

Frost Hardy

Hardy in coastal and relatively mild parts of UK (to -5)

Frost Hardy
Position (?):

What does this mean?

Full Sun

Six or more full hours of direct sunlight but don't forget to water.

Partial Shade

Two or three hours either in early morning or late evening sun. Very limited exposure to midday sun.

Dense Shade

Usually no more than two hours direct sunlight. Usually under dense trees, shurbs or in shade cast by buildings/fences etc.

Full sun
Soil Moisture (?):

What does this mean?

Well Drained

Well-drained soil allows water to percolate through reasonably quickly without pooling. Well drained soil can often be dry and lack nutrients.

Poorly Drained

Poorly Drained soil is usually saturated periodically during the growing season and remains wet for several days at a time. Saturated soil can deprive roots of oxygen.

Moist Well Drained

A moist well drained soil is the best of both worlds by combining high permeability with the ability to retain moisture. Adding well rotted organic matter to dry or wet soil will help improve both these characteristics.

Moist Well-drained
Soil PH (?):

What does this mean?

Acid

Soil with a pH between 1 and 7 is classed as acid, ericaceous plants such as Rhododendrons need acid soil.

Neutral

A neutral pH which is around 7, will be suitable for most plants. Clay soils tend to be neutral.

Alkaline

Soil with a pH between 7 and 14 are refereed to as Alkaline. Chalky soil is usually Alkaline.

Acid, Neutral, Alkaline
Soil Type (?):

What does this mean?

Chalk

Chalky or lime-rich soils may be light or heavy, largely made up of calcium carbonate and are very alkaline.

Clay

Clay soils are potentially fertile and hold a high proportion of water. They drain slowly and take longer to warm up in spring.

Loam

Loam soils are s mixture of clay, sand and silt that avoid the extremes of clay or sandy soils. Fertile, well-drained and easily worked.

Sand

Sandy soils have a low clay content, drain quickly, easy to cultivate and work. They can dry out quickly and are low in plant nutrients. Often very acidic.

Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand

**Rose 'Blue Moon' (Hybrid Tea) – The Legendary Lavender-Blue Beauty with Intense Damask Fragrance**

Rose 'Blue Moon' stands as one of the most iconic and sought-after hybrid tea roses, earning its legendary status as the first true lavender-blue hybrid tea and still considered the best of the 'blue' shades available to gardeners. This exceptional variety produces magnificent large blooms in haunting lavender-blue tones with intense damask fragrance that creates an enchanting and sophisticated garden display. With its classic exhibition bloom form, strong stems perfect for cutting, romantic heritage inspired by the famous song, and prestigious Tantau breeding from 1964, 'Blue Moon' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking both extraordinary beauty and horticultural history.

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Type: Hybrid Tea bush rose
Eventual Height: 1.0m
Eventual Spread: 60cm
Flowering: June to October
Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
Growth Habit: Bushy, upright, vigorous
Colour: Haunting lavender-blue with mauve tones
Form: Large, fully double, exhibition bloom form
Size: Large blooms up to 4 inches across (10cm)
Petals: Fully double with 35-40 petals
Fragrance: Intense damask fragrance, strongly fragrant

Spectacular Flowers

The defining beauty of 'Blue Moon' lies in its absolutely extraordinary lavender-blue blooms that create an enchanting and mysterious garden presence unlike any other rose. These magnificent large flowers showcase haunting lavender tones with subtle mauve hues, creating a colour that is both distinctive and sophisticated in garden settings.

The fully double blooms feature 35-40 petals arranged in perfect exhibition form, opening from elegant long pointed buds into exquisite 4-inch flowers of exceptional substance and beauty. Each bloom exemplifies the classic hybrid tea characteristics that have made this variety legendary amongst rose enthusiasts worldwide.

Exquisite Fragrance

'Blue Moon' offers gardeners the exceptional pleasure of an intense damask fragrance that is both powerful and romantic. This strong, haunting scent adds another dimension of charm to the garden experience and perfectly complements the mysterious lavender-blue colouration, making it irresistible for planting near seating areas where the fragrance can be fully appreciated.

Outstanding Garden Performance

This superb rose demonstrates exceptional garden performance through its bushy, upright growth habit and vigorous constitution. The variety exhibits strong growth with deep green, glossy foliage that provides an attractive backdrop to the spectacular lavender-blue blooms whilst maintaining excellent garden structure throughout the season.

'Blue Moon' produces flowers on long, slender stems with strong necks, making it exceptionally suitable for cutting and floristry use. The upright growth habit and vigorous constitution ensure reliable performance year after year, whilst the manageable size makes it perfect for beds, borders, and containers.

Continuous Flowering Performance

As a repeat-flowering hybrid tea, 'Blue Moon' delivers spectacular displays in flushes from spring through to autumn, ensuring months of lavender-blue colour and intense fragrance. The variety produces magnificent blooms throughout the growing season, with reliable repeat flowering that maintains consistent garden impact during the rose season.

This extended flowering performance means gardeners can enjoy the extraordinary lavender-blue blooms and romantic fragrance for the maximum possible time, making it excellent value for garden space and providing reliable seasonal colour that captivates continuously.

Growing Requirements

Position: Full sun in sunny beds and borders
Soil: Well-drained, fertile soil
Spacing: Allow adequate space for mature spread of 75cm
Care: Regular feeding and watering for optimal performance
Climate: Prefers warmer climates for best performance

The variety thrives in full sun conditions and performs best in warmer climates where the unique colouration can fully develop. The strong stems and exhibition quality make it particularly suitable for gardeners interested in cut flowers and floral arrangements.

Garden Uses

'Blue Moon' offers exceptional versatility for various garden applications:

Mixed Borders: Provides unique colour and reliable structure
Rose Gardens: Essential for collections of historic and unusual varieties
Cut Flower Gardens: Outstanding for sophisticated arrangements
Container Gardens: Ideal for pots and patio displays
Exhibition Gardens: Perfect for show-quality bloom displays
Romantic Gardens: Ideal for creating enchanting garden atmospheres
Heritage Gardens: Essential for collections of significant rose varieties
Gift Gardens: Meaningful choice for special occasion plantings

Prestigious Breeding Heritage

'Blue Moon' carries the distinguished heritage of Tantau breeding from 1964, representing one of the most significant achievements in rose breeding history as the first successful lavender-blue hybrid tea. Bred in Germany by the renowned Tantau breeding programme, this variety was developed from 'Sterling Silver' and has remained unmatched in its colour class.

The prestigious breeding background and historic significance ensure both quality and reliability, making it a treasured choice for gardeners who appreciate roses with exceptional heritage and groundbreaking characteristics.

Perfect for Cutting

The long, slender stems with strong necks and large exhibition-quality blooms make 'Blue Moon' absolutely outstanding for cut flower arrangements. The haunting lavender-blue blooms create spectacular arrangements that provide unique colour and intense damask fragrance, perfect for indoor enjoyment and special occasions. The classic hybrid tea form ensures elegant arrangements of exceptional beauty.

Romantic Heritage

'Blue Moon' carries special romantic significance, with its name inspired by the famous song "Blue Moon." This variety embodies romance and mystery through both its enchanting colour and intense fragrance, making it perfect for romantic garden settings and meaningful gifts that celebrate love and special occasions.

Companion Planting

The unique lavender-blue blooms work beautifully with complementary colours such as cream, white, soft pink, or silver foliage that enhance the mysterious colouring, whilst deep purple or burgundy companions create striking tonal harmonies. The deep green, glossy foliage provides excellent structure and seasonal interest as a backdrop to other plants.

Care and Maintenance

'Blue Moon' benefits from regular care including adequate feeding and watering to maintain optimal performance and fragrance development. The strong constitution and vigorous growth habit ensure reliable performance with reasonable care, whilst the upright growth makes pruning and maintenance straightforward.

Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering throughout the season, whilst the exhibition-quality blooms reward careful cultivation with spectacular results perfect for both garden display and cutting.

**Why Choose 'Blue Moon'?**

Rose 'Blue Moon' represents the ultimate choice for gardeners seeking a truly legendary rose that combines extraordinary lavender-blue beauty with intense fragrance and historic significance. Its status as the first and best lavender-blue hybrid tea, prestigious Tantau breeding, romantic heritage, and exceptional exhibition qualities make it both a stunning garden feature and horticultural treasure.

Whether you're creating unique colour schemes in borders, seeking historic roses with groundbreaking characteristics, wanting exceptional varieties for cutting gardens, looking for roses with romantic significance, or desiring roses that provide spectacular exhibition-quality blooms, 'Blue Moon' delivers outstanding results. Its legendary status, proven garden performance, and haunting lavender-blue blooms make it an essential choice for gardeners who appreciate roses that combine horticultural excellence with historic significance and distinctive beauty that provides enchanting colour and intense fragrance throughout the growing season.

Why Buy Roses from Us
How Our Roses are Supplied
Rose Guide & Care
Reviews

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.

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(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%.

Price Promise

(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.

Roses 12 Months Plants Guarantee

(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.

Third Generation Rose Growing

(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.

Grown at Altitude Healthy Plants

(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:

Help and Advice Aftercare

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.

Pointing at Graft of Rose after Removing from 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.

Tying up a Climbing Rose

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.

Diagram of different types of roses

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’.

Digging Ground for Roses

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.

Rose Raised Ready to be Planted

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.

Aftercare

Water regularly until established. In spring, apply a specialised rose fertiliser along with manure mulch, taking care to avoid direct contact of the mulch with the stems. In winter remove all branches which are dead, diseased or damaged along with any older stems as necessary to avoid overcrowding at the centre. Cut back new growth by about a quarter and prune side-shoots to within three buds of the main stem to encourage vigour. Prompt removal of ‘dead-heads’ will encourage further flowering.