Rose 'National Trust' (Hybrid Tea) – The Award-Winning British Classic with Perfectly Shaped Red Blooms
Rose 'National Trust' stands as a distinguished British hybrid tea rose, earning its reputation as an award-winning classic that exemplifies the finest characteristics of traditional rose breeding. This exceptional variety produces outstanding bright red blooms of perfectly consistent quality in the classic hybrid tea shape, creating spectacular garden displays throughout the summer and autumn. With its Belfast Certificate of Merit and Royal National Rose Society Trial Ground Certificate from 1969, excellent disease resistance, and strong growing characteristics, 'National Trust' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking both traditional beauty and proven reliable performance.
Headlines
- Type: Hybrid Tea bush rose
- Eventual Height: 60cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering: June to September
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Medium-sized, upright, strong growing
- Colour: Outstanding bright red
- Form: Perfectly shaped, fully double blooms in classic hybrid tea form
- Size: Large blooms of highly consistent quality
- Petals: Fully double with substantial petal count
- Fragrance: Light fragrance with discrete scent
Spectacular Flowers
The defining beauty of 'National Trust' lies in its outstanding bright red blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form and create spectacular garden displays of traditional elegance. These magnificent fully double flowers demonstrate highly consistent quality with perfectly shaped blooms that exemplify the classic hybrid tea characteristics of high-centred form and spiralling symmetry.
The large red blooms are produced in abundance throughout the season, with each flower displaying the perfect typical hybrid tea shape that makes this variety such a reliable choice for traditional garden settings. The brilliant red colouration provides exceptional garden impact whilst maintaining the refined elegance that characterises the finest British rose breeding.
Delightful Fragrance
'National Trust' offers gardeners the pleasure of light fragrance with discrete scent that enhances its already impressive visual appeal. This subtle fragrance adds another dimension of charm to the garden experience, making it suitable for planting in beds and borders where the gentle scent can be appreciated.
Outstanding Garden Performance
This superb rose demonstrates exceptional garden performance through its medium-sized, upright growth habit and strong growing characteristics. The variety exhibits robust growth with glossy deep green foliage that provides a perfect backdrop to the spectacular red blooms whilst maintaining excellent garden structure throughout the season.
'National Trust' boasts good disease resistance and hardy constitution, making it suitable for gardeners of all skill levels who want reliable performance with traditional beauty. The strong growing habit and excellent health characteristics ensure dependable results year after year, whilst the compact height makes it perfect for the front of borders and bed plantings.
Continuous Flowering Performance
As an abundantly flowering hybrid tea, 'National Trust' delivers spectacular displays throughout summer and autumn, ensuring months of bright red colour and light fragrance. The variety produces outstanding blooms in great numbers throughout the growing season, with reliable repeat flowering that maintains consistent garden impact for maximum seasonal beauty.
This extended flowering performance means gardeners can enjoy the perfectly shaped red blooms and discrete fragrance for virtually the entire growing season, making it excellent value for garden space and providing reliable seasonal colour that enhances traditional garden displays.
Growing Requirements
- Position: Full sun for best flowering and colour development
- Soil: Well-drained, fertile soil
- Spacing: Allow adequate space for mature spread of 75cm
- Care: Regular feeding and watering for optimal performance
- Winter Care: Hardy variety requiring minimal winter protection
The compact height and excellent disease resistance make this variety particularly suitable for front-of-border plantings, making it perfect for creating traditional garden displays whilst still delivering exceptional performance and reliability.
Garden Uses
'National Trust' offers exceptional versatility for various garden applications:
- Mixed Borders: Perfect for front-of-border plantings with reliable structure
- Rose Beds: Outstanding for dedicated rose garden displays
- Container Gardens: Ideal for large containers and patio displays
- Cut Flower Gardens: Excellent for creating classic red arrangements
- Traditional Gardens: Perfect for heritage and period garden settings
- Buttonhole Gardens: Ideal for corsage and boutonniere flowers
- Cottage Gardens: Classic choice for informal garden settings
- Gift Gardens: Meaningful British variety for special plantings
Award-Winning Excellence
'National Trust' has earned prestigious recognition including the Belfast Certificate of Merit in 1969 and the Royal National Rose Society Trial Ground Certificate in 1969, confirming its exceptional combination of flower quality, garden performance, and overall excellence. These awards validate the variety's outstanding characteristics as judged by horticultural experts.
The award-winning status ensures gardeners can plant with complete confidence, knowing this variety has been recognised for superior qualities and reliable performance by the most respected rose authorities.
Prestigious Breeding Heritage
'National Trust' carries the distinguished heritage of McGredy IV breeding, introduced in 1970 and representing the finest tradition of Irish-British rose breeding excellence. Samuel Darragh McGredy IV was renowned for producing roses that combine exceptional beauty with outstanding garden performance and reliability.
This prestigious breeding background ensures both quality and dependability, making it a trusted choice for gardeners who appreciate roses with proven heritage and exceptional breeding credentials from one of the most respected rose breeding dynasties.
Perfect for Cutting
The strong stems, perfectly shaped blooms, and excellent keeping quality make 'National Trust' outstanding for cut flower arrangements and buttonhole use. The bright red blooms create classic arrangements that provide traditional beauty and light fragrance, perfect for indoor enjoyment and special occasions throughout the flowering season.
Companion Planting
The outstanding bright red blooms work beautifully with complementary colours such as cream, white, or silver foliage that create striking contrasts, whilst deep pink or purple companions create harmonious tonal combinations. The glossy deep green foliage provides excellent structure and seasonal interest as a perfect backdrop to other plants.
Care and Maintenance
'National Trust' exemplifies reliable gardening with its good disease resistance and strong growing characteristics. The excellent health properties and hardy constitution mean reasonable care produces consistent results, making it suitable for both novice and experienced gardeners seeking dependable roses.
Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering throughout the season, whilst the upright growth habit makes pruning and maintenance straightforward. The good disease resistance means minimal intervention is required for pest and disease management.
Why Choose 'National Trust'?
Rose 'National Trust' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking an award-winning British hybrid tea rose that combines perfectly shaped red beauty with traditional elegance and proven reliability. Its prestigious awards, excellent disease resistance, strong growing habit, and distinguished McGredy breeding make it both a stunning garden feature and horticultural treasure.
Whether you're creating traditional red colour schemes in borders, seeking reliable roses for cutting and buttonhole use, wanting varieties with award-winning credentials, looking for roses suitable for front-of-border plantings, or desiring roses that provide months of consistent red blooms, 'National Trust' delivers outstanding results. Its award-winning excellence, proven garden reliability, and perfectly shaped red blooms make it an essential choice for gardeners who appreciate roses that combine horticultural distinction with traditional British beauty and reliable performance throughout the growing season.
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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