Rose 'Fragrant Delight' - Floribunda
A magnificent award-winning floribunda rose that produces spectacular clusters of fully double blooms in salmon-pink with coppery orange undertones and golden centres, combining exceptional strong fragrance with outstanding garden performance and continuous flowering throughout the growing season.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: ~90m
- Eventual Spread: ~90cm
- Flowering Period: June to November
- Flower Colour: Salmon-pink with coppery orange undertones and golden centres
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, shrubby, strong-growing
- Flower Type: Large, fully double, semi-double blooms in clusters
- Awards: RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM)
Overview
Rose 'Fragrant Delight' is a truly outstanding floribunda rose that exemplifies classic rose breeding excellence, winning the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit for its exceptional garden performance and outstanding fragrance. This distinguished variety produces magnificent clusters of large, fully double blooms in salmon-pink with coppery orange undertones and bright golden centres, creating spectacular colour displays that evolve beautifully throughout the flowering season. The most striking feature is its exceptional strong fragrance that fills the garden with delightful perfume, complemented by glossy dark green foliage that provides perfect contrast to the vibrant blooms. With vigorous shrubby growth, excellent weather resistance, and continuous flowering performance from June to November, this rose represents one of the finest examples of fragrant floribunda roses for modern gardens. True to its name, this variety delivers exceptional scent alongside outstanding visual appeal.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Fragrant Delight' lies in its clusters of large, fully double blooms measuring 6-8cm across that showcase perfect floribunda form with substantial visual impact. Each bloom displays salmon-pink colouring with attractive coppery orange undertones and bright golden centres, creating sophisticated colour combinations that add warmth and depth to the garden display. The blooms release a wonderfully strong, sweet fragrance that adds a powerful sensory dimension to the garden experience. The classic floribunda cluster flowering combined with vigorous growth habit, excellent weather resistance, and exceptional fragrance makes this rose suitable for a wide range of garden applications, from formal rose gardens to mixed borders and container cultivation.
Growth Characteristics
This floribunda rose displays a naturally vigorous, shrubby growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for traditional rose garden applications and robust displays. The plant develops into a strong, well-proportioned head above the standard stem with excellent branching structure and vigorous performance. The lax yet vigorous-growing nature ensures reliable flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, substantial size perfect for creating impressive garden features. The upright shrubby growth habit makes it ideal for formal rose gardens, mixed borders, or positioning where its spectacular beauty and strong fragrance can be fully appreciated. The strong stems provide excellent support for the large clustered blooms, making this variety particularly suitable for cutting garden applications.
Flowering Performance
From June through to November, 'Fragrant Delight' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues almost continuously throughout the growing season. The plant produces magnificent clusters of large, fully double blooms held in impressive groupings, creating substantial visual impact with abundant flowering. The flowers showcase salmon-pink colouring with coppery orange undertones and golden centres, creating ongoing visual interest and sophisticated elegance. The repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous colour throughout the growing season, with the abundant clustered blooms providing a spectacular display that captures attention with its vibrant colours and strong sweet fragrance. The long flowering period extends well into autumn, providing valuable late-season colour and fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Fragrant Delight' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, humus-rich, moist but 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 including acid, alkaline, and neutral conditions, providing adequate drainage is maintained. 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 including south, west, and east-facing aspects, tolerating both exposed and sheltered conditions.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
This rose demonstrates exceptional hardiness suitable for growing throughout the UK, being fully hardy (H6 rating) and showing excellent tolerance of typical British weather conditions. 'Fragrant Delight' displays good garden health and vigorous constitution that ensures reliable performance throughout the season. The healthy, glossy, dark green foliage remains attractive and vigorous, providing good resilience against common garden challenges. The robust nature and excellent weather resistance make it particularly suitable for challenging conditions, whilst the vigorous growth habit ensures dependable performance year after year.
Care and Maintenance
'Fragrant Delight' requires standard floribunda rose care to maintain optimal health and flowering performance. Apply a balanced fertiliser and mulch in late winter or early spring, followed by another application of balanced fertiliser in early summer to support continuous flowering. Regular watering during dry periods, particularly in the first year after planting, helps establish strong root systems. The vigorous growth habit means this variety benefits from regular feeding to support its impressive flowering potential. Deadheading regularly throughout the summer encourages continued flowering, whilst proper pruning following pruning group 16 guidelines maintains the shrubby shape and promotes vigorous new growth.
Garden Applications
'Fragrant Delight' excels in formal rose gardens where its vigorous floribunda form and spectacular salmon-pink colouring create stunning focal points. The shrubby growth habit makes it ideal for rose borders, mixed plantings, and areas where substantial presence is desired. The salmon-pink flowers with coppery orange undertones suit both contemporary and traditional garden settings perfectly, whilst the strong fragrance makes it excellent for positioning near seating areas and pathways. The rose works beautifully as a specimen plant or in groups, creating impressive displays that combine visual drama with exceptional fragrance. The strong stems and large clustered blooms make it particularly suitable for cutting gardens, providing abundant fragrant flowers for indoor arrangements.
Container Growing
The vigorous growth habit requires consideration for container cultivation, being best suited to large containers or eventually transitioning to garden planting. When grown in containers, choose containers at least 50cm wide and deep with adequate drainage holes, and use high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require frequent watering and feeding to support the vigorous growth and abundant flowering. The strong fragrance and impressive flowering make it worthwhile for patio cultivation where the scent can be appreciated up close.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Fragrant Delight' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, healthy, glossy dark green foliage and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The extended flowering season from June to November ensures months of colour and strong fragrance, with the salmon-pink blooms with coppery orange undertones creating vibrant displays that showcase remarkable consistency. The healthy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the fragrant clustered flowers. Even in winter, the strong branching structure provides architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering.
Cutting and Floral Arrangements
The large, fully double blooms with strong stems make 'Fragrant Delight' exceptional for cutting and indoor arrangements. The salmon-pink colour with coppery orange undertones and golden centres works beautifully with a wide range of other flowers and foliage, whilst the strong sweet fragrance adds a delightful dimension to indoor displays. The semi-double structure with ruffled petals adds texture and sophistication to arrangements, making them particularly suitable for special occasions and gifts. The sturdy stems provide excellent support for the large clustered blooms, ensuring good vase life and professional-quality arrangements. The captivating fragrance and vibrant colouring make arrangements memorable and impressive.
Fragrance Profile
The wonderfully strong, sweet fragrance of 'Fragrant Delight' provides an exceptional sensory experience in the garden. This captivating scent emanates from the large clustered blooms and carries well in the garden, creating a delightful fragrance that perfectly complements the visual beauty of the salmon-pink flowers. The sweet fragrance profile makes this rose particularly suitable for fragrance gardens or areas where a classic, romantic rose fragrance is desired. The scent is robust enough to be appreciated from a distance whilst remaining sweet and pleasant up close, making it ideal for positioning near seating areas, pathways, or windows where the fragrance can be fully enjoyed.
Wildlife Value
The abundant, accessible blooms provide valuable nectar sources for bees and other beneficial pollinators throughout the extended flowering season. The continuous blooming habit from June to November makes this rose a good choice for wildlife-friendly gardens, supporting local pollinator populations throughout the growing season. The strong sweet fragrance serves as an attractant for beneficial insects, contributing to a healthy garden ecosystem. The cluster flowering habit provides multiple nectar sources in close proximity, whilst the repeat-flowering nature ensures that wildlife benefits extend throughout the growing season.
Companion Planting
The salmon-pink colours with coppery orange undertones of 'Fragrant Delight' provide excellent opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants. The warm tones work beautifully with blue and purple flowers, creating vibrant complementary displays. The rose pairs exceptionally well with silver and grey foliage plants, creating sophisticated combinations that enhance the warm colouring. Orange and red flowers provide harmonious combinations, whilst white flowers create fresh, clean contrasts. The vigorous habit makes it suitable for planting with robust perennials, creating dynamic mixed borders that provide interest throughout the growing season.
Award Recognition and Heritage
'Fragrant Delight' has received the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM), providing confidence in its exceptional garden performance and outstanding qualities. This coveted award is given only to plants that demonstrate excellent performance in garden conditions, outstanding constitution, and reliable flowering. The AGM status confirms that this variety has been thoroughly tested and proven in garden conditions, making it a reliable choice for gardeners seeking proven excellence. The award recognition marks this variety as one of exceptional merit, combining fragrant beauty, vigorous growth, and reliable garden performance that meets the highest standards.
Weather Resistance Excellence
The exceptional weather resistance of 'Fragrant Delight' makes it particularly suitable for challenging British conditions. The ability to stand up well to wind and rain ensures that the beautiful blooms remain attractive even during adverse weather, whilst the vigorous constitution ensures continued flowering throughout the season. This weather tolerance makes it an excellent choice for exposed gardens and areas where reliable performance is essential.
Classic Floribunda Heritage
Bred by Wisbech and introduced in 1978, 'Fragrant Delight' represents classic floribunda breeding at its finest. The combination of vigorous growth, exceptional fragrance, and beautiful colouring demonstrates the traditional strengths of British rose breeding. The long cultivation history proves that this rose has stood the test of time and continues to excel in modern gardens, making it a reliable choice for gardeners seeking proven performance.
Bedding Excellence
The vigorous growth habit and continuous flowering make 'Fragrant Delight' particularly suitable for bedding applications where substantial impact is required. The ability to produce abundant blooms throughout the season ensures that bedding displays remain colourful and fragrant from summer through to autumn, making it an excellent choice for formal rose gardens and large-scale plantings.
Why Choose 'Fragrant Delight'?
Rose 'Fragrant Delight' represents the perfect combination of exceptional fragrance, vigorous beauty, and outstanding garden performance. The large, fully double blooms with their salmon-pink colouring, coppery orange undertones, and golden centres provide continuous cluster flowering displays from June through to November, whilst the vigorous shrubby growth ensures impressive garden presence with standard rose care. The strong, sweet fragrance makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes where scent is appreciated, from formal rose gardens to mixed borders and cutting gardens. Whether grown for its spectacular fragrant blooms, vigorous performance, or as a stunning RHS Award of Garden Merit winner, this classic floribunda rose offers outstanding value and enduring beauty that will provide years of gardening pleasure and memorable fragrant experiences.
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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