Rose 'Precious Platinum' - Hybrid Tea Rose
A magnificent heritage hybrid tea rose producing masses of spectacular striking red blooms with outstanding foliage coverage, complemented by glossy dark green leaves, tall stately upright growth, and exceptional garden performance, making it perfect for formal displays, hedge plantings, and classic garden borders.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 120cm
- Eventual Spread: 65cm
- Flowering Period: Summer to autumn with repeat blooms
- Flower Colour: Medium red to bright crimson-scarlet
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Strong, tall, and stately upright
- Flower Type: Large rounded, fully double blooms measuring 12cm (5 inches) across with 35+ petals
- Fragrance: Lightly fragrant
Overview
Rose 'Precious Platinum' stands as a remarkable heritage hybrid tea rose, bred by Patrick Dickson in Northern Ireland in 1974 and representing decades of proven garden excellence. This exceptional variety produces masses of spectacular large red blooms with outstanding foliage coverage that extends from nearly the ground to the top of the plant, something few roses accomplish with such distinction. The striking medium red to bright crimson-scarlet colouring creates dramatic garden impact that commands attention throughout the extended flowering season, whilst the light fragrance adds gentle aromatic dimension that enhances any garden setting. 'Precious Platinum' delivers outstanding garden performance with heritage significance, making it ideal for formal displays, hedge plantings, mass plantings, and anywhere classic beauty with exceptional coverage is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Precious Platinum' lies in its masses of spectacular, large red blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional coverage and substantial presence. Each flower displays classic rounded formation with fully double petals numbering 35+ arranged in elegant shape, measuring an impressive 12cm (5 inches) across and creating blooms of remarkable visual impact and garden drama. The striking red to bright crimson-scarlet colouring provides spectacular displays that maintain their intensity throughout the flowering season, creating consistent colour that symbolises passion, strength, and enduring beauty. The flowers are produced abundantly from summer through autumn with reliable repeat blooming, covering the plant from top to bottom in an extraordinary display. The light fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both heritage garden themes and contemporary garden enjoyment.
Growth Characteristics
The strong, tall 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 outstanding glossy dark green foliage is produced abundantly, creating an attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the striking red blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance throughout the growing season. The stately upright growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from formal borders to hedge plantings, with the impressive height making it perfect for background plantings and dramatic displays.
Flowering Performance
From summer through to autumn, 'Precious Platinum' delivers exceptional flowering displays with abundant repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of spectacular large red 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 rounded formation and striking colour intensity, whilst the elegant shape ensures each flower maintains its impressive appearance for extended periods. The remarkable coverage from top to bottom ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the abundant red blooms providing continuous focal points that brighten garden spaces with their heritage colour and light fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Precious Platinum' thrives in full sun to partial 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 striking red 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 outstanding foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard rose care practices, whilst the substantial size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from beds and borders to hedge plantings and mass displays.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Precious Platinum' demonstrates excellent garden hardiness and good disease resistance, which significantly supports healthy growth throughout the season. The variety shows strong resilience to common rose diseases, making it particularly reliable for gardeners seeking consistent red rose performance. The outstanding glossy dark green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with natural disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for gardeners who appreciate heritage plantings with reasonable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal variations, with proven reliability over decades of cultivation.
Care and Maintenance
'Precious Platinum' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and coverage excellence. 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 heritage plantings. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the stately upright shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and coverage.
Garden Applications
'Precious Platinum' excels in formal garden displays and heritage gardens where its proven significance and spectacular performance can be fully appreciated. The exceptional red blooms and outstanding coverage make it ideal for hedge plantings, mass displays, and formal borders where dramatic 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 and formal displays. The tall stately growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating dramatic background displays in formal gardens, whilst the substantial size ensures it provides excellent coverage for screening and hedge applications.
Container Growing
While 'Precious Platinum' can be grown in containers, its substantial size makes it better suited to large containers for patios and formal displays. The rose thrives in very large containers where its red blooms can create spectacular focal points and impressive displays, making it suitable for terraces and formal presentations where heritage colour enhances the garden experience. Choose containers at least 60cm 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 coverage displays and heritage significance make this worthwhile for special plantings and formal garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Precious Platinum' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of outstanding glossy dark green foliage and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular red blooms from summer through autumn provide months of heritage colour that maintains vibrancy throughout the season, creating consistent dramatic impact. The attractive foliage remains healthy throughout the season with good disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the tall stately branching structure provides strong architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Precious Platinum' features light fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the heritage garden experience. The gentle fragrance adds subtle aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and pleasant aromatic interest are desired for formal arrangements. The refined scent enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where gentle fragrance contributes to the heritage garden experience, particularly in formal settings where subtle aromatic elements complement the dramatic visual display.
Companion Planting
The striking red colouring of 'Precious Platinum' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The red blooms work beautifully with white and cream flowers for classic contrast that highlights both the heritage significance and garden beauty, whilst purple and blue flowers create sophisticated colour combinations. Silver and grey foliage plants complement the red tones whilst pink flowers provide harmonious displays. The tall stately growth makes it suitable for planting with perennials and shrubs that enhance the garden's formal atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Recognition
'Precious Platinum' represents exceptional hybrid tea breeding achievement by Patrick Dickson in Northern Ireland in 1974, building on the distinguished heritage of Dickson Roses established in 1836. The variety demonstrates innovative breeding that successfully integrated striking colour significance with outstanding coverage performance and good disease resistance, creating a rose that satisfies both formal garden purposes and practical gardening requirements. This heritage breeding achievement brings together exceptional flowering abundance, stately growth, and meaningful red colour that makes this variety particularly valuable for heritage plantings and formal gardens, with proven performance over decades of cultivation.
Heritage Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Precious Platinum' is its representation of the finest hybrid tea rose breeding from the 1970s, making it uniquely meaningful for heritage garden displays and formal plantings. The striking red colours symbolise passion, strength, and enduring beauty, whilst the outstanding coverage from top to bottom represents the pinnacle of hybrid tea rose performance. This heritage significance, combined with proven garden excellence, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both historical meaning and exceptional practical performance.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Precious Platinum' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring heritage beauty indoors for special occasions and formal arrangements. The strong tall stems, abundant large blooms with 35+ petals, and light fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the heritage significance of the striking red colours. The reliable flowering and exceptional coverage ensure plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining impressive garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional formal arrangements.
Why Choose 'Precious Platinum'?
Rose 'Precious Platinum' represents the perfect combination of heritage excellence, exceptional performance, and striking beauty. The masses of spectacular large red blooms with outstanding coverage from top to bottom and light fragrance provide dramatic displays from summer through autumn, whilst the stately growth and good disease resistance ensure reliable performance with standard maintenance. Whether grown for heritage gardens, formal displays, hedge plantings, or simply for its exceptional beauty and striking colour coverage, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers proven value that combines meaningful heritage significance with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates the finest traditions of formal rose gardening with decades of proven performance 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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