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Rose 'Iceberg' (Climbing) - Climbing Rose
An award-winning legendary climbing rose producing abundant clusters of pristine double white blooms with sweet honey fragrance, complemented by glossy light green foliage, almost thornless vigorous stems, and exceptional repeat flowering performance, making it perfect for walls, fences, arches, pergolas, and bringing classic white elegance to garden structures.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous climbing rose
- Eventual Height: 4.5 metres
- Eventual Spread: 2 metres
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Pure pristine white
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -15 to -10 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H5)
- Growth Habit: Large, vigorous climbing with almost thornless stems
- Flower Type: Large double blooms 8cm wide in abundant clusters
- Fragrance: Sweet honey fragrance with spicy notes
Overview
Rose 'Iceberg' (Climbing) stands as the legendary award-winning climbing sport of the world-famous Iceberg floribunda, producing abundant clusters of pristine double white blooms with exceptional garden performance and outstanding reliability. This magnificent variety creates unforgettable garden experiences with its large 8cm double flowers that display perfect pure white beauty, where each bloom showcases immaculate white petals that create stunning visual effects throughout the extended flowering season from summer to autumn. The sweet honey fragrance with spicy notes makes this rose particularly treasured for its delightful aromatic appeal that enhances any garden setting. The flowers are produced continuously with exceptional repeat flowering, opening in magnificent clusters that create spectacular white displays. The sweet honey fragrance complements the pristine visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both traditional garden settings and contemporary landscape designs with classic white elegance and outstanding aromatic charm.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Iceberg' (Climbing) lies in its abundant clusters of spectacular blooms that showcase perfect climbing rose character with sweet fragrance and substantial garden presence. Each flower displays classic double formation with large petals featuring pure pristine white colouring in elegant arrangements, creating blooms of remarkable visual purity and exceptional aromatic appeal. The sweet honey fragrance with spicy notes provides delightful aromatic experiences that maintain their charm throughout the flowering season, creating lasting scented impressions that symbolise purity, elegance, and garden sophistication. The flowers are produced abundantly with exceptional continuous flowering, opening in spectacular clusters that add magnificent anticipation to the fragrant garden display. The sweet honey fragrance complements the pristine visual impact, creating outstanding garden experiences that enhance both climbing garden applications and everyday garden enjoyment with exceptional aromatic intensity and classic white beauty.
Growth Characteristics
The vigorous almost thornless stems provide excellent climbing capabilities whilst maintaining user-friendly character, making this variety particularly valuable for walls, fences, arches, pergolas, and garden structures where substantial coverage and easy maintenance are essential. The glossy light green foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the white blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance and vigour. The large vigorous climbing habit ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from walls and boundaries to structural features, with the generous size making it suitable for larger gardens and extensive coverage applications where its magnificent white flowering display can be fully appreciated.
Flowering Performance
From summer through to autumn, 'Iceberg' (Climbing) delivers exceptional flowering displays with continuous repeat blooming that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces abundant spectacular large blooms consistently in clusters, creating substantial visual and aromatic impact with outstanding performance that ensures ongoing garden beauty. The individual blooms develop with classic double formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the pristine white colouring and sweet honey fragrance, whilst the large 8cm structure ensures each flower maintains its beautiful appearance and aromatic appeal for extended periods. The exceptional continuous flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the ongoing fragrant blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their classic white beauty and sweet perfume.
Growing Conditions
'Iceberg' (Climbing) thrives in full sun with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, demonstrating remarkable adaptability to various growing conditions including poor soil and challenging aspects. The rose adapts exceptionally well to different soil types including acid, alkaline, and neutral pH levels, responding excellently to sunny aspects whilst tolerating north-facing positions where many roses struggle. For best results, provide sturdy structural support with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the vigorous flowering and healthy foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard climbing rose care practices, whilst the substantial size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from walls and extensive boundaries to large structural features where classic white colour enhancement is desired.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Iceberg' (Climbing) demonstrates good hardiness characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season. The variety shows reasonable tolerance to seasonal variations and weather conditions, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable classic plantings with white colour impact. The glossy light green foliage remains attractive and healthy throughout the growing season, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking reliable white climbing plantings with manageable maintenance requirements. The hardy constitution ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions including challenging aspects, supporting reliable fragrance production and flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Care and Maintenance
'Iceberg' (Climbing) requires standard climbing rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and fragrance intensity. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular deep watering during dry periods to support the vigorous growth and abundant flower production. Standard care practices ensure this variety maintains its pristine white flowers and classic significance, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable white climbing plantings. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular white display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning maintains the vigorous climbing shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Iceberg' (Climbing) excels in classic garden applications and white garden features where its legendary performance and pristine colour can be fully appreciated. The outstanding white blooms with sweet honey fragrance make it ideal for walls, fences, arches, pergolas, and garden structures where continuous white flowering and delightful aromatic appeal are essential. Perfect for training on walls, boundaries, and structural features, this rose provides exceptional visual impact with strong stems and exceptional repeat flowering that creates ongoing seasonal highlights. The vigorous growth and abundant clustering make it particularly suitable for large climbing applications and extensive coverage, whilst the sweet fragrance ensures it provides memorable aromatic experiences that define classic garden character and climbing rose excellence.
Container Growing
The vigorous climbing habit can be accommodated in very large containers for temporary displays or where ground planting is not possible. The rose requires substantial containers at least 60cm wide and deep with excellent drainage, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require significantly more frequent watering and feeding than ground-planted roses, but the legendary qualities and continuous white flowering make this worthwhile for special classic plantings and temporary climbing garden features.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Iceberg' (Climbing) provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous fragrant flowering and attractive climbing presence. Spring brings the emergence of glossy light green foliage and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main fragrant flowering display. The spectacular pristine white blooms from summer through autumn provide months of classic white colour and sweet honey fragrance that maintains consistency throughout the season, creating persistent aromatic impact. The attractive foliage remains healthy throughout the season, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular fragrant flower displays, whilst the vigorous climbing structure provides attractive architectural interest during dormant periods and supports year-round garden appeal.
Fragrance Profile
'Iceberg' (Climbing) features sweet honey fragrance with spicy notes that complements the pristine visual display and enhances the classic garden experience. The delightful scent adds charming aromatic appeal to climbing structures whilst making this rose particularly valuable for areas where sweet fragrance contributes to the overall garden experience. The honey fragrance with spicy notes enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for classic plantings where delightful scent contributes to the climbing garden experience, particularly during evening garden enjoyment when the sweet perfume creates lasting aromatic impressions that epitomise climbing rose charm.
Companion Planting
The pristine pure white colouring of 'Iceberg' (Climbing) provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and elegant colour schemes. The white purity works beautifully with any colour palette, serving as the perfect backdrop for vibrant perennials whilst highlighting both the legendary qualities and aromatic appeal. Silver and grey foliage plants complement the white blooms perfectly, whilst coloured flowers provide stunning contrast that allows the white elegance to serve as a unifying element. The sweet fragrance makes it suitable for planting with other aromatic plants that enhance the garden's fragrant atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Award-Winning Recognition
'Iceberg' (Climbing) has been awarded the prestigious Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society, recognising its excellent garden performance and outstanding climbing qualities. This award confirms its status as a top-performing climbing rose that gardeners can trust for consistent results and exceptional garden value with reliable white colour and sweet fragrance, following in the footsteps of its legendary floribunda parent.
Legendary Heritage
As the climbing sport of the world-famous Iceberg floribunda rose, this variety carries exceptional heritage significance and proven garden performance. The original Iceberg is recognised as one of the top ten roses of the world and a multi-award winner, making its climbing form particularly meaningful for gardeners seeking roses with legendary status and proven reliability.
Almost Thornless Advantage
The almost thornless stems make 'Iceberg' (Climbing) particularly user-friendly for maintenance, training, and general garden activities. This characteristic significantly reduces the challenges associated with climbing rose care whilst maintaining excellent climbing performance and structural coverage capabilities.
Cut Flower Excellence
The exceptional cut flower qualities make 'Iceberg' (Climbing) particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring classic white beauty and sweet honey fragrance indoors for special occasions and elegant arrangements. The strong stems, abundant large fragrant blooms with pristine white colouring, and sweet honey fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the classic appeal of the spectacular white colour. The continuous flowering ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining climbing displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional white arrangements that provide elegant statements for indoor spaces.
Exhibition and Show Potential
The spectacular double blooms and perfect climbing rose form make 'Iceberg' (Climbing) an excellent choice for exhibition purposes and flower shows where classic white beauty and sweet fragrance create memorable displays. The large 8cm double blooms with their pristine white colouring provide consistent show-quality flowers that demonstrate excellent climbing rose performance, making this variety particularly valuable for competitive gardening and horticultural exhibitions where colour purity and form contribute to judging criteria.
North Wall Tolerance
The exceptional tolerance for north-facing aspects makes 'Iceberg' (Climbing) suitable for challenging growing positions where many roses struggle to perform effectively. This adaptability extends its garden applications to diverse locations whilst maintaining spectacular white flowering performance and sweet fragrance.
Why Choose 'Iceberg' (Climbing)?
Rose 'Iceberg' (Climbing) represents the perfect combination of legendary excellence, classic white beauty, and exceptional reliability. The abundant double blooms in pristine white with their sweet honey fragrance provide outstanding displays from summer through autumn, whilst the vigorous almost thornless growth and good adaptability ensure dependable performance with standard climbing rose maintenance. Whether grown for classic white garden features, legendary rose collections, extensive coverage applications, or simply for its exceptional beauty and proven performance, this outstanding award-winning climbing rose offers distinctive value that combines meaningful heritage significance with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates climbing rose tradition with classic white elegance and sweet fragrance that enhances any garden setting where timeless beauty and proven reliability are appreciated together.
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.
Aftercare
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