Rose 'Henri Matisse' ('Delstrobla') - Hybrid Tea Rose
An extraordinary and artistic hybrid tea rose that creates breathtaking displays of large, uniquely striped blooms in vibrant combinations of red, pink, and white, combining an intensely strong fruity fragrance with excellent disease resistance and continuous flowering performance throughout the season, making it the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a truly distinctive and captivating rose with exceptional artistic appeal.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: June to October (repeat flowering until first frosts)
- Flower Colour: Striped red, pink, and white
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Upright, vigorous, bushy
- Flower Type: Large, double, tea-shaped (10cm across)
- Fragrance: Intensely strong fruity scent with raspberry notes
- Introduced: 1995 by Delbard, France
Overview
Rose 'Henri Matisse' ('Delstrobla') is a truly exceptional hybrid tea rose that captures the artistic spirit of its famous namesake through its spectacular striped blooms that appear like living masterpieces in the garden. This distinguished variety from renowned French breeder Georges Delbard produces magnificent large flowers in an extraordinary combination of red, pink, and white stripes, with each bloom being uniquely different and beautifully unpredictable. The most remarkable feature is its intensely strong fruity fragrance with delightful raspberry notes that fills the garden with perfume throughout the growing season. With its vigorous, healthy growth habit and excellent disease resistance, this rose represents outstanding value for gardeners seeking a truly distinctive variety that combines artistic beauty with reliable garden performance and continuous flowering from early summer through to the first frosts.
Key Characteristics
The outstanding appeal of 'Henri Matisse' lies in its extraordinary large, double blooms that showcase unique striped patterns in vibrant combinations of red, pink, and white. Each flower displays perfect tea-shaped form with no two blooms being identical, creating a constantly changing display of artistic beauty that captures attention throughout the garden. The flowers measure an impressive 10cm across and are filled with 30 petals that begin in a cupped formation before flattening as they mature. The intensely strong fruity fragrance with distinctive raspberry notes creates an exceptional sensory experience that complements the visual spectacle of the striped blooms, making this rose particularly valuable for positioning near seating areas and pathways where the magnificent scent can be fully appreciated.
Growth Characteristics
This hybrid tea rose displays a naturally upright, vigorous growth habit that creates an attractive, well-proportioned shrub perfect for formal and informal garden settings. Typically reaching 1.6m in height with a spread of 80cm, the plant develops into a strong, sturdy bush with excellent branching structure and robust constitution. The medium-sized growth habit ensures prolific flowering whilst maintaining an ideal size for most garden situations, including smaller spaces and container cultivation. The upright, bushy nature makes it particularly suitable for rose borders, mixed plantings, or positioning as a distinctive feature where its unique striped blooms can be fully appreciated and admired.
Flowering Performance
From June through to October, with continuous repeat flowering until the first frosts, 'Henri Matisse' delivers exceptional flowering displays that provide months of unique colour and artistic beauty throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces magnificent large blooms continuously, creating substantial visual impact with each flush of flowering. The flowers showcase perfect tea-shaped form with extraordinary striped patterns that change from bloom to bloom, ensuring that the display remains fresh and exciting throughout the season. The reliable repeat-flowering nature combined with the intensely strong fruity fragrance ensures continuous colour and perfume, with regular deadheading encouraging further blooming and maintaining the spectacular striped display well into autumn, making it particularly valuable for long-season garden interest and artistic appeal.
Growing Conditions
'Henri Matisse' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, well-drained soil, requiring at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight daily for optimal flowering performance and colour intensity. The rose demonstrates excellent adaptability to various soil types and growing conditions, making it suitable for a wide range of garden situations. For best results, plant in fertile, well-drained loam with a pH between 6.0 and 6.8 that has been improved with organic matter such as well-rotted compost or manure, ensuring consistent moisture levels during the growing season. The rose benefits from good air circulation around the foliage, which helps maintain the excellent disease resistance and promotes healthy, vigorous growth. Space plants 2-3 feet apart to ensure proper air circulation and prevent disease whilst allowing each plant to develop its full potential.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
This rose demonstrates excellent hardiness suitable for growing throughout the UK, being fully hardy and showing outstanding tolerance of typical British weather conditions including frost, wind, and challenging growing conditions. One of the most notable features of 'Henri Matisse' is its good disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The healthy, glossy, mid-green foliage remains attractive and vigorous, providing good disease resistance that makes this variety particularly suitable for organic gardening approaches. This excellent disease resistance combined with its vigorous constitution makes it an ideal choice for gardeners seeking reliable, low-maintenance excellence with spectacular and unique results.
Care and Maintenance
'Henri Matisse' requires standard hybrid tea rose care to maintain optimal health and prolific flowering performance. Apply a balanced rose fertiliser and organic mulch in late winter or early spring (February/March), followed by another application of balanced fertiliser in early summer to support the continuous flowering habit. Water deeply once a week, increasing frequency during hot, dry periods to maintain consistent soil moisture. The good disease resistance and vigorous constitution mean this variety requires minimal intervention, making it an ideal choice for gardeners seeking spectacular results without intensive maintenance. Regular deadheading of spent blooms throughout the summer encourages continued flowering and maintains the attractive appearance of the plant whilst promoting the development of new striped blooms.
Garden Applications
'Henri Matisse' excels in formal rose gardens where its unique striped colouring and classical flower form create stunning focal points and artistic displays. The upright, bushy growth habit makes it ideal for rose borders, mixed borders, and formal bedding schemes where its reliable performance and extraordinary colour can be fully appreciated. The manageable size and excellent disease resistance make it perfect for smaller gardens and courtyard spaces, where the striped blooms provide brilliant colour contrast and artistic interest. The rose works beautifully as a specimen plant or in groups, creating impressive displays that combine visual drama with artistic significance, making it particularly suitable for contemporary garden designs and artistic-themed plantings.
Container Growing
The compact, vigorous growth habit and excellent disease resistance make 'Henri Matisse' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and areas where soil conditions may be challenging. The rose thrives in large containers with adequate drainage, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release rose fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than those planted in the ground, but the manageable size and continuous flowering ensure spectacular results. The artistic significance and beautiful striped blooms make container-grown plants particularly valuable for positioning prominently on patios and terraces where the unique beauty and fragrance can be fully appreciated and enjoyed.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Henri Matisse' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the changing months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, healthy, glossy mid-green foliage and the formation of flower buds that build anticipation for the spectacular striped flowering display. The extended flowering season from June through to the first frosts ensures months of unique striped colour, with each bloom offering different combinations of red, pink, and white patterns that create an ever-changing artistic display. The healthy, attractive foliage remains decorative throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the magnificent striped blooms and maintaining garden interest even during periods between flowering flushes.
Cutting and Floral Arrangements
The large, double blooms with strong stems make 'Henri Matisse' exceptional for cutting and creating stunning indoor arrangements for special occasions. The unique striped patterns in red, pink, and white create extraordinary visual impact in arrangements, whilst the intensely strong fruity fragrance with raspberry notes adds a delightful dimension to indoor displays. The classical tea-shaped form and substantial size of the blooms add elegance and artistic sophistication to arrangements, making them particularly suitable for contemporary floral displays and artistic celebrations. The sturdy stems provide excellent support for the large blooms, ensuring good vase life and professional-quality arrangements that bring the artistic beauty and fragrance indoors for extended enjoyment.
Fragrance Profile
The intensely strong fruity fragrance of 'Henri Matisse' provides an exceptional sensory experience that perfectly complements the visual beauty of the striped blooms. This powerful scent combines delightful notes of rose and sweet berry fruit with distinctive raspberry undertones, creating a complex and memorable fragrance that fills the garden with perfume throughout the flowering season. The strong fragrance profile makes this rose particularly suitable for positioning near seating areas, pathways, or windows where the magnificent perfume can be appreciated during quiet moments in the garden. The intense scent adds another dimension to the artistic appeal of this remarkable rose, creating a truly multi-sensory garden experience.
Wildlife Value
The large, accessible blooms provide valuable nectar sources for bees and other pollinators throughout the extended flowering season from June until the first frosts. The continuous blooming habit makes this rose an excellent choice for wildlife-friendly gardens, supporting local pollinator populations throughout the growing season and into autumn. The strong fragrance and open flower form serve as attractants for beneficial insects, contributing to a healthy garden ecosystem and biodiversity. The repeat-flowering nature ensures that wildlife benefits extend throughout the growing season, making this rose a valuable addition to pollinator-friendly garden schemes and sustainable gardening practices.
Companion Planting
The unique striped colours of 'Henri Matisse' in red, pink, and white provide excellent opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants. The vibrant striped tones work beautifully with silver-foliaged plants such as artemisia and lamb's ear, creating sophisticated combinations that highlight the extraordinary colouring. The variety pairs exceptionally well with purple and blue flowers such as lavender, salvia, and catmint, creating stunning complementary colour combinations that enhance the rose's artistic beauty. White flowers provide fresh, elegant contrasts that highlight the striped patterns, whilst deep green foliage plants create dramatic backgrounds that allow the unique blooms to take centre stage.
Artistic Significance
True to its namesake, 'Henri Matisse' serves as a living tribute to the great French artist, capturing the bold, expressive spirit of Fauvism through its extraordinary striped blooms. The unique colour combinations and artistic patterns make this rose particularly meaningful for art-themed gardens and contemporary landscape designs. The unpredictable nature of the striped patterns ensures that each bloom is a unique work of art, making it an ideal choice for gardeners who appreciate artistic expression and creative beauty in their gardens. The combination of artistic significance, reliable performance, and extraordinary beauty makes it a perfect choice for creating gardens that celebrate creativity and artistic inspiration.
Vigorous Constitution
One of the most outstanding features of 'Henri Matisse' is its vigorous, healthy constitution that ensures reliable performance year after year. The robust growth habit combined with good disease resistance means this rose will thrive in a wide range of garden conditions whilst requiring minimal maintenance. The vigorous nature ensures prolific flowering and healthy growth, making it particularly valuable for gardeners seeking dependable performance with truly spectacular and unique results. This vigorous constitution, combined with its disease resistance, makes it an excellent choice for novice gardeners and experienced rosarians alike.
Contemporary Appeal
The unique striped blooms and artistic significance give 'Henri Matisse' a contemporary appeal that suits modern garden designs and artistic landscapes. The extraordinary colour combinations and unpredictable patterns create striking visual interest that will remain attractive and relevant in contemporary garden settings. The combination of artistic beauty with modern disease resistance and reliable performance represents the perfect fusion of aesthetic appeal and practical garden value, making it a versatile choice for various garden styles and contemporary applications.
Why Choose 'Henri Matisse'?
Rose 'Henri Matisse' ('Delstrobla') represents the perfect combination of artistic beauty, exceptional fragrance, and reliable garden performance. The large, uniquely striped blooms with their extraordinary red, pink, and white patterns provide continuous colour and artistic interest from June through to the first frosts, whilst the intensely strong fruity fragrance with raspberry notes creates an exceptional sensory experience. The vigorous, upright growth habit and good disease resistance make it suitable for gardens of all sizes and styles, from formal artistic displays to mixed borders and container cultivation. Whether grown for its artistic significance, spectacular striped blooms, powerful fragrance, or reliable garden performance, this outstanding hybrid tea offers exceptional value and enduring beauty that will provide years of artistic splendour and sensory delight in the garden, making it the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a truly distinctive and captivating rose that combines the best of French breeding expertise with extraordinary artistic appeal.
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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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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