Rose 'Mister Lincoln' - Hybrid Tea Rose
A magnificent award-winning hybrid tea rose producing masses of spectacular deep velvety-crimson blooms with exceptionally strong damask fragrance, complemented by dark green leathery foliage, vigorous upright growth, and good disease resistance, making it perfect for cutting gardens, formal borders, and classic rose displays.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 150cm
- Eventual Spread: 70cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Deep velvety-crimson to cherry red
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, tall, and upright
- Flower Type: Large double blooms 10cm (4 inches) across with classic pointed buds
- Fragrance: Exceptionally strong damask fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Mister Lincoln' stands as one of the finest red hybrid tea roses ever developed, bred by Herbert Swim and Weeks Rose Growers in 1964 and honoured with the prestigious All-America Rose Selections award in 1965. This exceptional variety produces masses of spectacular large deep velvety-crimson flowers measuring 10cm across with classic high-centred hybrid tea form that showcases remarkable depth of colour and luxurious velvety texture. The striking crimson colouring lightens to rich cherry red as blooms mature, creating dramatic garden impact that commands attention throughout the extended flowering season, whilst the exceptionally strong damask fragrance adds powerful aromatic dimension that enhances any garden setting. 'Mister Lincoln' delivers outstanding garden performance with award-winning excellence, making it ideal for cutting gardens, formal displays, feature plantings, and anywhere classic beauty with exceptional fragrance is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Mister Lincoln' lies in its masses of spectacular, large crimson blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional colour depth and substantial presence. Each flower displays classic pointed buds that open into large, well-formed double blooms with 24+ petals arranged in the traditional high-centred shape, measuring 10cm across and creating flowers of remarkable visual impact and garden drama. The unique deep velvety-crimson colouring provides spectacular displays that maintain their intensity throughout the flowering season, creating consistent colour that symbolises passion and classic rose beauty. The flowers are produced abundantly from late spring through early autumn, opening from beautifully formed dark red buds that add elegant anticipation to the garden display. The exceptionally strong damask fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both traditional rose gardens and contemporary garden enjoyment.
Growth Characteristics
The strong, straight 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 dark green leathery foliage is produced abundantly, creating an attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the deep crimson 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 feature plantings.
Flowering Performance
From late spring through to early autumn, 'Mister Lincoln' delivers exceptional flowering displays with abundant repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of spectacular large crimson flowers 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 velvety texture and rich colour depth, whilst the high-centred form ensures each flower maintains its elegant appearance for extended periods. The mass flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the abundant crimson blooms providing continuous focal points that brighten garden spaces with their classic colour and exceptionally strong fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Mister Lincoln' thrives in full sun with fertile, well-amended, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance. The rose adapts well to various soil conditions and responds excellently to an open, bright aspect where the deep crimson colours can be fully appreciated. 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 feature plantings.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
One of the most notable features of 'Mister Lincoln' is its good disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The variety demonstrates strong resistance to common rose diseases, making it more resilient than many other hybrid tea roses. The healthy dark green leathery foliage remains attractive and vigorous with natural disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking reliable performance with reasonable maintenance requirements. The variety also shows excellent adaptability to adverse weather conditions, including heat tolerance.
Care and Maintenance
'Mister Lincoln' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and colour 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 good disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention beyond standard care practices, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable classic plantings. 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.
Garden Applications
'Mister Lincoln' excels in traditional rose gardens and formal displays where its classic significance and spectacular performance can be fully appreciated. The exceptional crimson blooms make it ideal for feature gardens, memorial plantings, and special displays where classic colour 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 for special occasions. The vigorous growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating dramatic 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 'Mister Lincoln' well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and special displays. The rose thrives in large containers where its crimson blooms can create spectacular focal points and elegant displays, making it perfect for terraces and special occasion settings where classic colour enhances the garden experience. Choose containers at least 40cm 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 colour displays and classic significance make this worthwhile for special plantings and traditional garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Mister Lincoln' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of dark green leathery foliage and the first beautifully formed dark red buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular crimson blooms from late spring through autumn provide months of classic colour that maintains vibrancy throughout the season, creating consistent celebratory impact. The attractive foliage remains healthy throughout the season with good disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the vigorous upright branching structure provides strong architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Mister Lincoln' features exceptionally strong damask fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the classic garden experience. The powerful fragrance adds exceptional aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and intense aromatic interest are desired for special occasions. The strong damask scent enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where fragrance contributes to the traditional rose garden experience, particularly during evening garden enjoyment when the scent is most pronounced.
Companion Planting
The deep crimson colouring of 'Mister Lincoln' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The rich red blooms work beautifully with white and cream flowers for classic contrast that highlights both the traditional significance and garden beauty, whilst purple and blue flowers create sophisticated colour combinations. Silver foliage plants complement the deep tones whilst pale pink flowers provide harmonious displays. The vigorous growth makes it suitable for planting with perennials and herbs that enhance the garden's traditional atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Awards
'Mister Lincoln' represents exceptional hybrid tea breeding achievement by Herbert Swim and Weeks Rose Growers, introduced in 1964 and honoured with the prestigious All-America Rose Selections award in 1965. The variety demonstrates innovative breeding that successfully integrated classic colour significance with reliable garden performance and good disease resistance, creating a rose that satisfies both traditional garden purposes and practical gardening requirements. This award-winning achievement brings together exceptional flowering abundance, vigorous growth, and meaningful classic colour that makes this variety particularly valuable for traditional plantings and formal rose gardens.
Classic Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Mister Lincoln' is its representation of the finest traditional red hybrid tea rose qualities, making it uniquely meaningful for classic garden displays. The deep velvety-crimson colours symbolise passion and enduring love, whilst the abundant flowering represents the continuity of traditional rose gardening. This classic significance, combined with award-winning garden performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both symbolic meaning and practical excellence.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Mister Lincoln' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring classic beauty indoors for special occasions and floral arrangements. The strong, straight stems, abundant large blooms, and exceptionally strong fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the classic significance of the deep crimson colours. The vigorous flowering ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional arrangements.
Why Choose 'Mister Lincoln'?
Rose 'Mister Lincoln' represents the perfect combination of award-winning excellence, exceptional performance, and classic beauty. The masses of spectacular deep velvety-crimson blooms with their exceptionally strong damask fragrance provide outstanding displays from late spring through autumn, whilst the vigorous growth and good disease resistance ensure reliable performance with reasonable maintenance. Whether grown for traditional rose gardens, cutting displays, formal garden features, or simply for its exceptional beauty and classic colour, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers proven value that combines meaningful traditional significance with award-winning garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates the finest traditions of rose gardening 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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