Rose 'Mothersday Red' - Floribunda Rose
A spectacular Floribunda rose that produces an abundance of vibrant semi-double blooms in rich scarlet-red, combining exceptional colour intensity with reliable flowering performance and robust growth habit throughout the growing season.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous Floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 45cm
- Eventual Spread: 45cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Rich scarlet-red
- 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: Semi-double blooms in abundant clusters
- Special Features: Perfect for commemorative plantings and Mother's Day gifts
Overview
Rose 'Mothersday Red' is an outstanding Floribunda rose that exemplifies the perfect combination of sentimental value and exceptional garden performance. This distinguished variety produces magnificent semi-double blooms in rich scarlet-red that create spectacular displays throughout the growing season. The most striking feature is its exceptional combination of vibrant colour intensity with reliable flowering performance, complemented by healthy dark green foliage that provides perfect contrast to the brilliant red blooms. With robust health, compact bushy growth habit, and continuous repeat flowering performance from June to September, this rose represents an ideal choice for commemorative plantings and gardens seeking consistent colour impact. Each cluster of blooms creates substantial visual impact whilst maintaining the sentimental appeal that makes it perfect for Mother's Day celebrations and memorial gardens.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Mothersday Red' lies in its profuse semi-double blooms that showcase spectacular colour intensity with substantial visual impact displayed in abundant clusters. Each bloom displays rich scarlet-red colouring with remarkable vibrancy, creating dramatic displays that command attention throughout the garden. The flowers combine deep red tones with excellent colour retention, creating sophisticated displays that add warmth and passion to the garden throughout the season. The semi-double flower form with generous clustering, combined with continuous flowering habit, good disease resistance, and meaningful symbolism makes this rose suitable for a wide range of garden applications, from commemorative plantings to mixed borders and container cultivation.
Growth Characteristics
This Floribunda rose displays a naturally compact, bushy growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for modern garden applications and commemorative plantings. The plant develops into a strong, well-proportioned specimen with excellent branching structure and reliable performance. The compact yet vigorous nature ensures consistent flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, manageable size perfect for contemporary gardens and memorial settings. The bushy growth habit makes it ideal for front to mid-border positions, formal displays, or positioning where its spectacular beauty and symbolic value can be fully appreciated. The robust stems provide excellent support for the abundant clusters of blooms, making this variety particularly suitable for both garden display and cut flower use.
Flowering Performance
From June through to September, 'Mothersday Red' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the growing season. The plant produces magnificent semi-double blooms held in abundant clusters, creating substantial visual impact with continuous flowering from early summer into mid-autumn. The flowers showcase rich scarlet-red colouring with excellent colour retention throughout their development, creating ongoing visual interest and dramatic elegance. The repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous colour throughout the growing season, with the abundant blooms providing a spectacular display that captures attention with its vibrant colours and commemorative significance. The extended flowering period provides valuable long-season garden interest and excellent symbolic value.
Growing Conditions
'Mothersday Red' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, humus-rich, moist but 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 including south, west, and east-facing aspects, tolerating both exposed and sheltered conditions.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
This rose demonstrates good hardiness suitable for growing throughout the UK, being fully hardy (H6 rating) and showing good tolerance of typical British weather conditions. 'Mothersday Red' displays reasonable disease resistance, which helps reduce maintenance requirements and ensures reliable growth throughout the season. The healthy, dark green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with proper care, showing natural resistance to common rose diseases when grown in suitable conditions. This disease resistance makes it a suitable choice for gardeners seeking reliable performance with meaningful symbolism, particularly when combined with appropriate care and garden hygiene practices.
Care and Maintenance
'Mothersday Red' requires standard rose maintenance to maintain optimal health and flowering performance, making it suitable for gardeners seeking commemorative plantings with reliable cultivation. Apply a balanced fertiliser and mulch in late winter or early spring, followed by another application of rose 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. Standard rose care practices ensure this variety maintains good health and performance. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and prolongs the blooming period, whilst proper pruning in late winter maintains the compact shape and promotes vigorous new growth with abundant blooms.
Garden Applications
'Mothersday Red' excels in commemorative gardens where its symbolic value and continuous flowering provide exceptional emotional significance. The compact bushy growth habit makes it ideal for memorial plantings, formal rose gardens, and positions where its spectacular beauty and meaningful symbolism can be appreciated. The rich red flowers suit both contemporary and traditional garden settings perfectly, whilst the manageable size makes it excellent for specimen plantings or group displays. The rose works beautifully in dedicated memorial areas, creating impressive displays that combine visual impact with sentimental value. The continuous flowering makes it particularly suitable for gardens requiring consistent colour and commemorative significance throughout the season.
Container Growing
The compact growth habit and robust nature make 'Mothersday Red' well-suited to container cultivation for patios and memorial settings. The rose thrives in large containers on balconies, terraces, and areas where commemorative plantings are desired, making it perfect for urban gardening applications and patio displays. 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 attractive whilst delivering exceptional flowering performance and symbolic value throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Mothersday Red' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, healthy, dark green foliage and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The extended flowering season from June to September ensures months of vibrant colour and commemorative significance, with the rich red blooms creating spectacular displays that showcase remarkable consistency. The healthy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the spectacular red flowers. Even in winter, the strong branching structure provides architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering and meaningful beauty.
Cut Flower Value
The exceptional cut flower value of 'Mothersday Red' makes it outstanding for indoor arrangements and commemorative floral displays. The semi-double blooms in abundant clusters provide good longevity when cut, with the vibrant colour and symbolic significance making them perfect for special occasion arrangements. The continuous blooming habit from June to September makes this rose valuable for cutting gardens, providing abundant flowers throughout the growing season. The sturdy stems and attractive blooms make it particularly suitable for Mother's Day arrangements and commemorative bouquets, whilst the rich colour adds dramatic impact to indoor displays.
Symbolic Value and Heritage
'Mothersday Red' carries special significance as a commemorative rose, making it particularly valuable for memorial plantings and Mother's Day celebrations. The rich red colouring symbolises love, respect, and remembrance, whilst the reliable flowering performance ensures ongoing beauty throughout the growing season. This symbolic value makes it especially meaningful for dedicated plantings that honour mothers and maternal figures, creating lasting tributes that combine horticultural excellence with emotional significance.
Companion Planting
The rich red colours of 'Mothersday Red' provide excellent opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants that enhance its commemorative appeal. The vibrant red tones work beautifully with white flowers, creating classic combinations that highlight the rose's dramatic colour. The rose pairs exceptionally well with silver and grey foliage plants, creating sophisticated contrasts that emphasise the boldness of the red blooms. Pink flowers create harmonious tonal combinations, whilst cream-coloured plants add elegance to the display. The compact habit makes it suitable for planting with lower-growing perennials and annuals, creating layered displays that maximise both visual impact and symbolic significance.
Memorial and Commemorative Use
The special significance of 'Mothersday Red' makes it exceptionally valuable for memorial gardens and commemorative plantings. The reliable flowering habit ensures consistent beauty throughout the growing season, whilst the rich red colour provides ongoing visual impact that honours maternal love and remembrance. This makes it particularly suitable for dedicated memorial areas, Mother's Day gift plantings, and gardens designed to celebrate maternal figures and family heritage.
Unique Commemorative Appeal
The most distinctive feature of 'Mothersday Red' is its special significance as a commemorative rose that combines horticultural excellence with meaningful symbolism. This characteristic creates plantings that are both visually striking and emotionally significant. The commemorative appeal adds depth and meaning to garden displays whilst creating lasting tributes that provide ongoing beauty and remembrance throughout the growing season.
Continuous Bloom Performance
The reliable continuous flowering habit of 'Mothersday Red' ensures that commemorative plantings remain colourful and meaningful from early summer through to mid-autumn. The ability to produce flowers consistently throughout this extended period makes it invaluable for maintaining memorial displays and celebratory plantings. This reliable performance makes it particularly suitable for situations where consistent colour and symbolic value are required throughout the growing season.
Why Choose 'Mothersday Red'?
Rose 'Mothersday Red' represents the perfect combination of commemorative significance, vibrant beauty, and reliable garden performance. The semi-double blooms with their rich scarlet-red colouring provide continuous flowering displays from June through to October, whilst the good hardiness ensures reliable growth with standard rose care. The compact, bushy growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from memorial plantings to mixed borders and container cultivation. Whether grown for its commemorative significance, exceptional colour impact, or as a meaningful Mother's Day tribute, this special rose offers outstanding symbolic and visual value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and lasting remembrance.
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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