Rose 'Elina' - Hybrid Tea Rose (Also known as 'Dicjana')
A spectacular world-renowned hybrid tea rose that produces enormous, well-formed blooms in luminous soft yellow shading deeper towards the centre with exceptional fragrance, superb disease resistance, and vigorous upright growth habit, making it perfect for borders, cutting gardens, and container cultivation.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 1m
- Eventual Spread: 1m
- Flowering Period: July to November
- Flower Colour: Luminous soft yellow shading deeper to lemon-yellow centres
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, upright and bushy
- Flower Type: Enormous blooms (6 inches) with 30+ petals in classic form
- Fragrance: Mild to moderate, pleasant fragrance
- Awards: World Rose Hall of Fame, multiple international awards
Overview
Rose 'Elina' stands as one of the world's most celebrated hybrid tea roses, viewed by many as one of the finest roses ever created and inducted into the prestigious World Rose Hall of Fame for its exceptional performance and outstanding beauty. Bred by Patrick Dickson of Northern Ireland in 1983, this remarkable variety produces magnificent enormous blooms measuring 6 inches across in luminous soft yellow that shade deeper towards the centre, creating truly spectacular displays throughout the growing season. Each exquisitely formed flower comprises around 25-30+ petals in perfect classic rose shape with exceptional substance and weather resistance. Superb disease resistance, prolific continuous flowering from late spring to first frost, and the remarkable ability to produce up to 25 dozen roses per year, 'Elina' represents the pinnacle of hybrid tea breeding for gardeners seeking world-class excellence with reliable performance and exceptional productivity.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Elina' lies in its remarkable ability to produce enormous, well-formed blooms in luminous soft yellow with deeper lemon-yellow centres that create enchanting displays of sophisticated elegance throughout the growing season. Each flower displays beautifully structured classic rose shape with 25-30+ petals and exceptional substance that maintains beauty throughout the flowering period. The blooms are produced on long straight stems, creating substantial visual impact perfect for cutting and garden display. The perfect classic form combines timeless hybrid tea elegance with modern garden performance, whilst the mild to moderate fragrance provides pleasant aromatic appeal. The exceptional flowering productivity with up to 5 dozen blooms per flush and up to 5 flushes per year ensures this hybrid tea delivers unprecedented impact with continuous blooming, making it particularly suitable for situations where world-class beauty with outstanding productivity is required from a reliable, vigorous plant.
Growth Characteristics
This hybrid tea rose displays a naturally vigorous, upright and bushy growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for diverse garden applications and formal landscaping schemes. The robust and healthy nature ensures prolific flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, substantial form perfect for borders, formal displays, and cutting gardens. The vigorous upright growth habit with long straight stems provides excellent support for the enormous blooms, making this variety particularly suitable for cut flower production and formal garden applications where classic hybrid tea excellence is important. The substantial size ensures impressive garden presence whilst delivering exceptional productivity through its remarkable flowering capability.
Flowering Performance
From late spring through to first frost, 'Elina' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season with remarkable productivity. The plant produces magnificent enormous blooms with perfect classic rose shape, creating substantial visual impact with prolific continuous flowering that brightens garden spaces for months on end. The flowers showcase luminous soft yellow colouring with deeper lemon-yellow centres that maintain excellent colour retention and weather resistance, with blooms changing slightly in the sun for added interest. The extraordinary repeat-flowering nature with up to 5 flushes per year and up to 5 dozen blooms per flush ensures continuous blooming throughout the growing season, providing spectacular displays that capture attention with their world-class beauty and reliable performance. The extended flowering period makes this rose invaluable for maintaining consistent garden interest and abundant cutting material from late spring through to late autumn.
Growing Conditions
'Elina' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, moist yet well-drained soil, requiring at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily for optimal flowering performance and colour development. The rose adapts well to various soil types providing adequate drainage is maintained and benefits from incorporation of well-rotted organic matter and bonemeal when planting to encourage strong root development. For best results, plant in fertile, well-drained soil that has been improved with organic matter, ensuring consistent moisture throughout the growing season. The rose benefits from good air circulation around the foliage and performs well in various exposures. This adaptable variety succeeds in a wide range of garden situations whilst maintaining its exceptional flowering performance and world-class characteristics.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
This rose demonstrates exceptional hardiness suitable for growing throughout the UK, being fully hardy and showing excellent tolerance of typical British weather conditions. One of the most notable features of 'Elina' is its superb disease resistance and good health, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures vigorous growth throughout the season. The attractive, plentiful foliage remains vigorous and provides an excellent backdrop for the spectacular blooms, with outstanding natural resistance to common rose diseases. This exceptional disease resistance makes it an excellent choice for organic gardening approaches and eliminates the need for chemical interventions, making it particularly suitable for gardeners seeking world-class excellence with minimal maintenance requirements and reliable performance.
Care and Maintenance
'Elina' requires minimal maintenance to maintain optimal health and flowering performance, making it suitable for gardeners seeking world-class hybrid tea excellence with manageable care requirements. Apply a balanced rose fertiliser and mulch in late winter or early spring, followed by another application of fertiliser in early summer to support continuous flowering and exceptional productivity. Regular watering during dry periods, particularly in the first year after planting, helps establish strong root systems. The superb disease resistance and vigorous nature means this variety requires minimal intervention whilst delivering extraordinary performance. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the upright shape and promotes vigorous new growth for optimal flowering productivity.
Garden Applications
'Elina' excels in formal and contemporary garden settings where its continuous luminous yellow flowering provides exceptional elegance and world-class appeal. The vigorous upright growth habit makes it ideal for borders, formal rose gardens, mixed plantings, and areas where its exceptional performance and stunning beauty can be appreciated. The luminous soft yellow flowers with deeper centres suit both traditional and contemporary garden settings perfectly, creating sophisticated displays that provide stunning focal points and complement various colour schemes. The rose works beautifully in formal plantings and mixed borders, creating elegant displays that provide months of continuous soft colour and exceptional productivity. The substantial size and world-class reputation make it particularly suitable for showcase plantings, formal gardens, and anywhere consistent flowering with international excellence is required.
Container Growing
The vigorous growth habit and superb disease resistance make 'Elina' well-suited to large container cultivation for patios, terraces, and formal container displays. The rose thrives in substantial containers where its mild fragrance and exceptional productivity can be fully appreciated, making it perfect for urban gardening applications and patio displays. Choose a container at least 60cm wide and deep with adequate drainage holes, and use high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than those planted in the ground, but the vigorous habit and exceptional performance ensure they deliver outstanding flowering displays and world-class beauty throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Elina' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with exceptional productivity. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, attractive, plentiful foliage and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the extraordinary flowering display. The exceptional flowering season from late spring to first frost ensures months of luminous soft yellow colour with deeper centres, with the enormous individual blooms creating spectacular displays that showcase remarkable consistency and weather resistance. The plentiful attractive foliage remains vigorous throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the world-class flower displays. Even in winter, the strong upright branching structure provides substantial architectural interest whilst promising another year of exceptional flowering and world-renowned performance.
Fragrance Profile
'Elina' features a mild to moderate, pleasant fragrance that provides charming aromatic appeal whilst allowing the spectacular visual display to take centre stage. The pleasant fragrance enhances the garden experience and creates elegant garden atmospheres that complement the luminous yellow blooms perfectly. This makes it particularly suitable for areas where both world-class visual beauty and gentle aromatic appeal are desired, including seating areas and pathways where the fragrance can be appreciated alongside the stunning blooms. The moderate scent makes this rose suitable for those who appreciate subtle fragrances whilst ensuring it remains accessible and pleasant for all garden visitors.
Cutting Garden Excellence
One of the most appreciated features of 'Elina' is its exceptional value as a cutting rose, with the enormous 6-inch blooms carried on long straight stems providing outstanding material for floral arrangements. The luminous soft yellow colouring with deeper centres creates stunning bouquets that maintain their beauty and pleasant fragrance indoors. The vigorous growth and prolific flowering with up to 25 dozen roses per year ensure abundant cutting material throughout the extended flowering season, making this rose invaluable for gardeners who enjoy fresh flowers indoors and want to bring world-class beauty into their homes. The perfect classic form and substantial size make it particularly suitable for formal arrangements and special occasions.
Companion Planting
The luminous soft yellow colours with deeper centres of 'Elina' provide exceptional opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The soft yellow blooms work beautifully with blue and purple flowers, creating stunning complementary displays that highlight the luminous beauty. The rose pairs exceptionally well with silver and grey foliage plants, creating refined combinations that enhance the soft yellow tones. White and cream flowers create elegant monochromatic displays, whilst deeper yellow and orange flowers provide harmonious warm combinations. The vigorous habit makes it suitable for planting with substantial perennials, ornamental grasses, and other sizeable plants, creating layered gardens that provide continuous interest and world-class beauty throughout the growing season.
World Rose Hall of Fame Recognition
'Elina' holds the ultimate recognition of induction into the prestigious World Rose Hall of Fame, confirming its status as one of the world's finest roses with exceptional international performance and outstanding beauty. This supreme honour is reserved for roses that demonstrate exceptional performance across diverse global growing conditions and represents the highest level of rose recognition possible. The World Rose Hall of Fame induction, combined with multiple international awards including top honours in Germany, Ireland, and New Zealand, marks this variety as one of truly exceptional merit that combines stunning beauty with outstanding worldwide garden performance and reliability.
Heritage and Breeding Excellence
Bred by Patrick Dickson of Northern Ireland in 1983 with the cultivar name 'Dicjana', 'Elina' represents the exceptional breeding excellence of the renowned Dickson Nurseries, a family-owned rose company established in 1836. Developed from the white floribunda 'Nana Mouskouri' and the apricot hybrid tea 'Lolita', this outstanding variety demonstrates innovative breeding that successfully created world-class characteristics with exceptional garden reliability. This breeding excellence brings unique characteristics including extraordinary productivity, remarkable disease resistance, and outstanding international performance that sets this variety apart as one of the world's finest hybrid tea roses.
Exceptional Productivity
The extraordinary flowering productivity of 'Elina' ensures that gardens receive maximum value from this world-class hybrid tea, with up to 5 dozen blooms per flush and up to 5 flushes per year providing up to 25 dozen roses annually. This remarkable characteristic provides ongoing spectacular impact and ensures that the rose offers exceptional value for both garden display and cutting purposes. The exceptional productivity makes it particularly suitable for situations where maximum flowering output with world-class quality is required from individual plants.
Perfect Classic Shape
One of the most appreciated features of 'Elina' is its perfect classic rose shape that epitomises hybrid tea excellence, with enormous 6-inch blooms displaying flawless form that sets the standard for hybrid tea beauty. This characteristic makes the rose particularly suitable for formal gardens and situations where perfect classic rose form with world-class quality is required. The perfect shape excellence ensures that this rose represents the ultimate in hybrid tea elegance and sophistication.
Why Choose 'Elina'?
Rose 'Elina' represents the perfect combination of world-class excellence, exceptional productivity, and international recognition. The enormous luminous soft yellow blooms with deeper centres in perfect classic form provide continuous flowering displays from late spring through to first frost, whilst the superb disease resistance ensures vigorous growth with minimal maintenance. The vigorous upright growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from showcase borders to cutting gardens and substantial container cultivation. Whether grown for its spectacular world-renowned blooms, exceptional productivity of up to 25 dozen roses per year, or as a World Rose Hall of Fame inductee, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers exceptional value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and dependable world-class beauty in any garden setting.
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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