Rose 'Indian Summer' - Hybrid Tea Rose (Also known as 'Sweet Perfume' and 'Peaperfume')
A spectacular warmly-toned hybrid tea rose producing masses of elegant, large double blooms in beautiful peachy-yellow to creamy orange shades with exceptionally strong sweet fragrance, complemented by glossy dark green foliage, vigorous upright growth, and reliable repeat flowering, making it perfect for warm colour schemes, fragrance gardens, and exceptional cutting displays.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 90cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Peachy-yellow to creamy orange
- 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: Large double blooms with multiple petals
- Fragrance: Exceptionally strong rich sweet fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Indian Summer' stands as the perfect warm-toned celebration rose, renowned for its spectacular display of large double blooms in beautiful peachy-yellow to creamy orange shades that capture the essence of autumn warmth. This exceptional variety, also known as 'Sweet Perfume' thanks to its rich and exceptionally strong sweet fragrance, produces masses of elegant double flowers that create stunning garden impact throughout the extended flowering season from summer through to late autumn. The gorgeous warm colouring provides spectacular displays that evoke the golden tones of an Indian summer, whilst the exceptionally strong sweet fragrance adds aromatic dimension that enhances any garden setting and makes this variety particularly valuable for sensory gardens. 'Indian Summer' delivers outstanding garden performance with warm seasonal significance, making it ideal for autumn-themed plantings, fragrance gardens, container cultivation, and anywhere warm beauty with exceptional aromatic excellence is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Indian Summer' lies in its masses of elegant, large double blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional warm colour tones and substantial aromatic presence. Each flower displays beautiful peachy-yellow to creamy orange colouring arranged in classic double form, creating blooms of remarkable visual warmth and garden impact that capture attention throughout the growing season. The warm peachy-orange tones provide spectacular displays that maintain their intensity and evoke the golden warmth of late summer and autumn, creating consistent colour that symbolises abundance and seasonal beauty. The flowers are produced abundantly in attractive clusters throughout summer and autumn, opening from beautifully formed buds that add elegant anticipation to the garden display. The exceptionally strong rich sweet fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both warm colour schemes and everyday garden enjoyment with sensory delight.
Growth Characteristics
This hybrid tea rose displays vigorous upright growth with bushy habit, reaching 90cm in height with a manageable spread of 60cm, creating impressive garden presence that commands attention throughout the growing season. The strong upright stems provide excellent support for the abundant large flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for cutting and formal garden applications where stem strength and flower presentation are crucial. The glossy dark green foliage is produced abundantly, creating attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the warm peachy-orange blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance throughout the growing season. The vigorous yet manageable growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from borders to containers, with the compact spread making it suitable for smaller garden spaces.
Flowering Performance
From summer through to late autumn, 'Indian Summer' delivers exceptional flowering displays with abundant repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of elegant, large double flowers in attractive clusters continuously, creating substantial visual impact with reliable performance that ensures ongoing garden celebration. The individual blooms develop with classic hybrid tea form, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect warm colour tones and exceptional fragrance, whilst the double form ensures each flower maintains its elegant appearance for extended periods. The mass flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the abundant peachy-orange blooms providing continuous focal points that brighten garden spaces with their warm seasonal colour and exceptionally strong sweet fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Indian Summer' thrives in full sun with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance and fragrance development. The rose adapts well to moderately fertile soils and responds excellently to an open, bright aspect where the warm peachy-orange colours can be fully appreciated and the strong fragrance can be enjoyed. For best results, plant in sunny positions 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 rose care practices, whilst the manageable size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from beds and borders to container cultivation.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Indian Summer' demonstrates good hardiness typical of hybrid tea roses, with reliable performance in UK conditions and tolerance of winter temperatures. The variety shows reasonable disease resistance, though benefits from standard rose care practices including good air circulation and appropriate spacing to maintain healthy growth. The healthy glossy dark green foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season, providing excellent backdrop for the spectacular warm-toned blooms. Regular monitoring and standard preventative care ensure optimal performance and maintain the vigorous growth that supports the abundant flowering displays.
Care and Maintenance
'Indian Summer' requires standard hybrid tea 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. The variety responds well to standard care practices, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable warm-toned plantings with exceptional fragrance. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the vigorous upright shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and fragrance development.
Garden Applications
'Indian Summer' excels in warm colour scheme plantings and fragrance gardens where its exceptional aromatic qualities and spectacular warm-toned performance can be fully appreciated. The beautiful peachy-orange blooms make it ideal for autumn-themed gardens, warm border plantings, and sensory displays where exceptional fragrance and reliable performance are essential. Perfect for beds and borders, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with strong stems and excellent vase life that enhance floral arrangements with both beauty and exceptional fragrance. The vigorous growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating warm-toned displays in formal gardens, whilst the manageable size ensures it fits well into diverse garden settings from traditional borders to contemporary landscapes.
Container Growing
The manageable size and vigorous growth make 'Indian Summer' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and fragrance displays. The rose thrives in large containers where its warm peachy-orange blooms can create spectacular focal points and the exceptional fragrance can be appreciated at close quarters, making it perfect for terraces and seating areas where aromatic enhancement is desired. Choose containers at least 50cm wide and deep with excellent drainage, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than ground-planted roses, but the spectacular warm colour displays and exceptional fragrance make this worthwhile for special plantings and aromatic garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Indian Summer' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous warm colour and reliable aromatic performance. Spring brings the emergence of glossy dark green foliage and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular peachy-orange blooms from summer through to late autumn provide months of warm colour that maintains vibrancy throughout the season, creating consistent seasonal impact that perfectly captures the essence of Indian summer warmth. The attractive foliage remains healthy throughout the season, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the vigorous upright branching structure provides strong architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Indian Summer' features exceptionally strong rich sweet fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the sensory garden experience. The powerful sweet fragrance adds exceptional aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for fragrance gardens where both visual beauty and intense aromatic interest are desired. The strong sweet scent enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where fragrance contributes significantly to the garden experience, particularly near seating areas, pathways, and windows where the exceptional aromatic qualities can be fully appreciated.
Companion Planting
The warm peachy-orange colouring of 'Indian Summer' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated warm colour schemes. The beautiful warm tones work magnificently with deep reds and golden yellows for rich autumn displays that highlight both the seasonal significance and garden beauty, whilst purple and blue flowers create sophisticated colour contrasts. Bronze and copper foliage plants complement the warm tones whilst cream flowers provide harmonious displays. The vigorous growth makes it suitable for planting with perennials and herbs that enhance the garden's warm seasonal atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Innovation
'Indian Summer' represents excellent hybrid tea breeding that successfully combines exceptional fragrance with beautiful warm colouring and reliable garden performance. The variety demonstrates breeding achievement that integrated aromatic excellence with visual beauty, creating a rose that satisfies both sensory garden purposes and practical gardening requirements. The alternative names 'Sweet Perfume' and 'Peaperfume' reflect the breeding focus on exceptional fragrance, bringing together outstanding flowering abundance, vigorous growth, and meaningful aromatic significance that makes this variety particularly valuable for fragrance plantings and sensory gardens.
Aromatic Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Indian Summer' is its exceptional fragrance qualities, earning it recognition under alternative names that celebrate its aromatic excellence. The exceptionally strong sweet fragrance makes it uniquely valuable for sensory garden displays and aromatic plantings. This fragrance significance, combined with exceptional warm colour performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both aromatic meaning and practical excellence for creating memorable garden experiences.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Indian Summer' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring warm seasonal beauty and exceptional fragrance indoors for arrangements and special occasions. The strong stems, abundant large blooms, and exceptionally strong sweet fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst filling rooms with beautiful aromatic presence. The vigorous flowering ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional fragrant arrangements.
Why Choose 'Indian Summer'?
Rose 'Indian Summer' represents the perfect combination of exceptional fragrance, warm seasonal beauty, and reliable performance. The masses of beautiful peachy-orange to creamy orange blooms with their exceptionally strong sweet fragrance provide spectacular aromatic displays from summer through to late autumn, whilst the vigorous growth and manageable size ensure reliable performance with standard maintenance. Whether grown for fragrance gardens, warm colour schemes, sensory displays, or simply for its exceptional beauty and aromatic excellence, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers unique value that combines meaningful fragrance significance with outstanding garden performance, creating lasting memories and enduring aromatic beauty that celebrates the warmth and abundance of Indian summer 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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