Rose 'Iceberg' - Floribunda Rose
A legendary award-winning floribunda rose that produces abundant clusters of pure white double blooms with exceptional reliability, outstanding disease resistance, and nearly continuous flowering performance from late spring through to autumn frost, making it one of the world's most beloved garden roses.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 1.1m
- Eventual Spread: 90cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Pure white, sometimes with pale pink tinge
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy, vigorous-growing
- Flower Type: Medium-sized double blooms in large clusters
- Awards: World's Favourite Rose Hall of Fame
Overview
Rose 'Iceberg' stands as one of the finest roses ever developed, earning its place as one of the world's most recognised and beloved garden roses for over 60 years. This exceptional floribunda produces magnificent clusters of medium-sized, double white flowers with up to 24 petals each, creating a spectacular display of pure white blooms that brighten and highlight garden spaces throughout the growing season. The glossy, light green foliage provides the perfect backdrop to showcase the abundant white flowers, whilst the nearly thornless stems make maintenance a pleasure rather than a chore. With outstanding disease resistance, vigorous growth, and remarkable free-flowering habit, 'Iceberg' represents the pinnacle of reliable garden performance, flowering nonstop from late spring until the first autumn frost.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Iceberg' lies in its profuse clusters of bright white, double blooms that create continuous visual impact throughout the growing season. Each flower displays 3-inch double blooms with pristine white petals, occasionally showing a subtle touch of pale pink, particularly in late summer conditions. The medium-sized flowers are produced in large clusters, creating substantial visual impact with their abundant display of pure white colour. The lightly double form combines classic rose elegance with exceptional garden performance, whilst the light, sweet fragrance adds gentle garden ambience. The nearly thornless stems and exceptional disease resistance make this rose particularly suitable for busy gardeners seeking reliable beauty with minimal maintenance requirements.
Growth Characteristics
This floribunda rose displays a naturally compact, bushy growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for modern garden applications and mass displays. The compact yet vigorous-growing nature ensures reliable flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, manageable size perfect for contemporary gardens. The bushy growth habit makes it ideal for beds, borders, mass plantings, or container cultivation where its spectacular beauty can be fully appreciated. The strong stems provide excellent support for the abundant flower clusters, making this variety particularly suitable for formal and informal garden applications.
Flowering Performance
From late spring through to the first autumn frost, 'Iceberg' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the growing season. The plant produces magnificent double blooms held in large clusters, creating substantial visual impact with continuous flowering that brightens garden spaces for months on end. The flowers showcase pure white colouring with occasional pale pink tinges, creating ongoing visual interest and classic elegance. The free-flowering nature ensures continuous colour throughout the growing season, with the abundant blooms providing a spectacular display that captures attention with its pristine white colour and reliable performance. The extended flowering period makes this rose invaluable for maintaining consistent garden interest from early summer through to autumn.
Growing Conditions
'Iceberg' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, 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, tolerating both exposed and sheltered conditions. This adaptable variety succeeds in a wide range of garden situations whilst maintaining its exceptional flowering performance.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
One of the most notable features of 'Iceberg' is its outstanding disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The healthy, glossy, light green foliage remains attractive and vigorous, with excellent natural resistance to common rose diseases including black spot and powdery mildew. 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 busy gardeners seeking low-maintenance excellence.
Care and Maintenance
'Iceberg' requires minimal maintenance to maintain optimal health and flowering performance, making it ideal for busy gardeners and beginners. 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 excellent disease resistance and nearly thornless stems mean this variety requires minimal intervention, making it an easy-care option. Light deadheading encourages continued flowering, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the bushy shape and promotes vigorous new growth.
Garden Applications
'Iceberg' excels in formal and informal garden settings where its continuous white flowering provides exceptional versatility and visual impact. The compact bushy growth habit makes it ideal for beds, borders, mass plantings, and formal displays where its reliable performance can be appreciated. The pure white flowers suit both contemporary and traditional garden settings perfectly, creating elegant displays that complement virtually any colour scheme. The rose works beautifully in massed plantings, creating impressive displays that provide months of continuous colour. The manageable size and exceptional reliability make it particularly suitable for entrance plantings, foundation gardens, and anywhere consistent beauty is required.
Container Growing
The compact growth habit and excellent disease resistance make 'Iceberg' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and small gardens. The rose thrives in large containers on terraces and areas where soil conditions are challenging, making it perfect for urban gardening applications. Choose a container 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 more frequent watering and feeding than those planted in the ground, but the compact habit means they remain manageable whilst delivering exceptional flowering performance throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Iceberg' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, glossy, light green foliage and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The extended flowering season from late spring to first frost ensures months of pristine white colour, with the abundant blooms creating vibrant displays that showcase remarkable consistency. The healthy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the classic white flowers. Even in winter, the strong branching structure provides architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering.
Fragrance Profile
'Iceberg' features a light, sweet fragrance that provides pleasant garden ambience without being overwhelming, allowing the spectacular visual display to take centre stage. The gentle fragrance adds to the garden experience whilst remaining subtle enough to complement other fragrant plants. This makes it particularly suitable for mixed plantings and areas where the focus is on visual beauty and reliable performance rather than intense fragrance. The delicate scent enhances the overall appeal without dominating the garden atmosphere.
Companion Planting
The pure white colours of 'Iceberg' provide exceptional opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants and colour schemes. The pristine white blooms work beautifully with virtually any colour combination, creating elegant displays that enhance both formal and informal gardens. The rose pairs exceptionally well with blue and purple perennials, creating fresh, clean combinations that highlight both plants. Silver and grey foliage plants provide sophisticated contrasts, whilst colourful annuals create vibrant, dynamic displays. The compact habit makes it suitable for planting with herbs, perennials, and other roses, creating layered gardens that provide interest throughout the growing season.
Award Recognition and Heritage
'Iceberg' has achieved legendary status in the rose world, being inducted into the World's Favourite Rose Hall of Fame and remaining one of the most popular roses worldwide for over 60 years. This recognition reflects its exceptional garden performance, outstanding reliability, and enduring appeal to gardeners of all skill levels. The variety was bred by Reimer Kordes and introduced in 1958, representing decades of proven excellence in gardens worldwide. These accolades mark this variety as one of exceptional merit, combining stunning beauty with outstanding garden performance that meets the highest standards for reliability and visual impact.
Heritage and Innovation
Bred by the renowned Kordes nursery and introduced over 60 years ago, 'Iceberg' represents a milestone in floribunda rose breeding that successfully combined exceptional flower power with outstanding disease resistance and garden reliability. The variety demonstrates the successful integration of classic rose beauty with modern garden performance, creating a rose that satisfies both traditional and contemporary gardening needs. This heritage brings unique characteristics including exceptional disease resistance, reliable flowering, and outstanding garden adaptability that sets this variety apart from many other roses.
Nearly Thornless Advantage
One of the most appreciated features of 'Iceberg' is its nearly thornless stems, making it exceptionally user-friendly for maintenance, harvesting, and garden placement. This characteristic makes the rose particularly suitable for areas where people pass frequently, children's gardens, and anywhere ease of maintenance is important. The reduced thorns make pruning, deadheading, and general care much more pleasant whilst maintaining the strong stem structure needed to support the abundant flower clusters.
Continuous Bloom Performance
The exceptional continuous flowering habit of 'Iceberg' ensures that gardens remain colourful and attractive from late spring through to the first autumn frost. The ability to produce flowers continuously throughout this extended period makes it invaluable for maintaining consistent garden interest and visual impact. This reliable performance makes it particularly suitable for situations where consistent colour and garden beauty are required throughout the growing season, from formal displays to casual garden settings.
Why Choose 'Iceberg'?
Rose 'Iceberg' represents the perfect combination of legendary performance, exceptional reliability, and outstanding garden beauty. The abundant clusters of pure white double blooms provide continuous flowering displays from late spring through to autumn frost, whilst the excellent disease resistance ensures healthy growth with minimal maintenance. The compact, bushy growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from mass plantings to container cultivation. Whether grown for its spectacular white blooms, exceptional reliability, or as a time-tested garden favourite, this legendary rose offers outstanding value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and dependable 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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