Rose 'Special Anniversary' - Hybrid Tea Rose (Also known as 'Whastiluc')
A perfect commemorative hybrid tea rose producing masses of large deeply fragrant rich pink blooms with powerful scent, complemented by lustrous dark green foliage, compact bushy growth, and exceptional flowering performance, making it ideal for anniversary celebrations, memorial plantings, and meaningful gift presentations.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 80cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: July to September
- Flower Colour: Deep clear pink to rich pink
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, neat, bushy, and upright
- Flower Type: Large double blooms with classic hybrid tea form
- Fragrance: Intensely fragrant with powerful scent
Overview
Rose 'Special Anniversary' stands as the perfect commemorative rose, registered as 'Whastiluc' and specifically bred to celebrate special milestones and meaningful occasions with lasting beauty. This exceptional variety produces masses of large deeply fragrant rich pink blooms that create spectacular displays throughout the extended flowering season from July to September. The striking deep clear pink colouring maintains its vibrancy and emotional appeal throughout the growing period, creating consistent colour that symbolises love, celebration, and cherished memories. The large double blooms feature classic hybrid tea form with substantial presence, whilst the intensely powerful fragrance enhances the spectacular visual display, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both commemorative plantings and everyday garden enjoyment. 'Special Anniversary' delivers outstanding garden performance with meaningful significance, making it ideal for anniversary celebrations, memorial gardens, thoughtful gifts, and anywhere heartfelt beauty with reliable performance is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Special Anniversary' lies in its masses of large, deeply fragrant rich pink blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional emotional significance and substantial presence. Each flower displays classic double formation with deep clear pink petals that create blooms of remarkable visual impact and commemorative appeal, measuring large size with impressive garden presence. The rich pink colouring provides spectacular displays that maintain their intensity throughout the flowering season, creating consistent colour that symbolises celebration, love, and meaningful occasions. The flowers are produced abundantly with reliable repeat flowering from July through September, creating continuous displays that maintain their spectacular appeal throughout the extended growing season. The intensely powerful fragrance complements the exceptional visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both anniversary celebrations and everyday garden appreciation.
Growth Characteristics
The strong upright stems provide excellent support for the abundant large flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for cutting and commemorative applications where stem strength and flower presentation are crucial. The lustrous dark green foliage with bold glossy appearance is produced abundantly, creating an attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the rich pink blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance throughout the growing season. The compact, neat, bushy growth with upright habit ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from borders to containers, with the manageable size making it perfect for small gardens and meaningful plantings.
Flowering Performance
From July through to September, 'Special Anniversary' delivers exceptional flowering displays with excellent repeat flowering that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of large deeply fragrant flowers continuously, creating substantial visual impact with reliable performance that ensures ongoing commemorative celebration. The individual blooms develop with classic hybrid tea form, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect double formation and rich colour depth, whilst the elegant shape ensures each flower maintains its impressive appearance for extended periods. The repeat flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the continuous rich pink blooms providing ongoing focal points that celebrate garden spaces with their meaningful colour and powerful fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Special Anniversary' thrives in full sun with moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance. The rose adapts well to most well-drained soils including clay and responds excellently to open, sunny positions where the rich pink colours can be fully appreciated. For best results, plant in sunny positions with good air circulation, incorporating generous amounts of composted organic matter to support the vigorous flowering and lustrous foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding with specialist rose fertiliser and responds well to standard rose care practices, whilst the compact size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from beds and borders to containers and small garden spaces.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Special Anniversary' demonstrates excellent garden hardiness and good health characteristics, supporting reliable growth throughout the season. The variety shows strong resilience with its naturally robust constitution, making it particularly dependable for gardeners seeking consistent commemorative rose performance. The lustrous dark green foliage with bold glossy appearance remains attractive and vigorous with proper care, making it an excellent choice for gardeners who appreciate meaningful plantings with reasonable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal variations.
Care and Maintenance
'Special Anniversary' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and fragrance intensity. Apply specialist rose fertiliser in spring following manufacturer's instructions, with regular deep watering during dry periods to support the compact growth and abundant flower production. Mulch generously with composted farmyard manure in spring, keeping it away from the stems. The naturally strong characteristics mean this variety responds well to standard care practices, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable commemorative plantings. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter or early spring maintains the compact bushy shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Special Anniversary' excels in commemorative garden displays and meaningful plantings where its significant purpose and spectacular performance can be fully appreciated. The magnificent rich pink blooms make it ideal for anniversary gardens, memorial plantings, and special celebrations where emotional significance 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 meaningful presentations. The compact growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating touching displays in mixed herbaceous borders, whilst the manageable size ensures it fits well into diverse garden settings from traditional borders to contemporary commemorative landscapes.
Container Growing
The compact size and neat growth habit make 'Special Anniversary' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and meaningful displays. The rose thrives in large containers where its rich pink blooms can create spectacular focal points and commemorative displays, making it perfect for terraces and special presentations where anniversary significance 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 fragrant displays and meaningful significance make this worthwhile for special plantings and commemorative celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Special Anniversary' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of lustrous dark green foliage and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular rich pink blooms from July through September provide months of commemorative colour that maintains vibrancy throughout the season, creating consistent celebratory impact. The attractive glossy foliage remains healthy throughout the season with proper care, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the compact bushy branching structure provides attractive architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Special Anniversary' features intensely powerful fragrance that is amongst the most strongly perfumed of any variety, complementing the spectacular visual display and enhancing the commemorative garden experience. The exceptional aromatic appeal adds profound sensory dimension to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and intense aromatic interest are desired for meaningful arrangements. The powerful scent enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where maximum fragrance contributes to the commemorative garden experience, particularly during quiet reflection when the intense perfume creates lasting emotional connections.
Companion Planting
The rich pink colouring of 'Special Anniversary' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The deep pink blooms work beautifully with other pinks and purples for harmonious displays that enhance both the commemorative significance and garden beauty, creating sensational combinations. White and cream flowers provide elegant contrast whilst silver foliage plants complement the pink tones. The compact growth makes it suitable for planting with perennials and herbs that enhance the garden's meaningful atmosphere throughout the growing season, creating thoughtful commemorative displays.
Commemorative Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Special Anniversary' is its specific breeding purpose to celebrate special milestones and meaningful occasions, making it uniquely significant for commemorative garden displays and gift presentations. The rich pink blooms symbolise love, celebration, and cherished memories, whilst the reliable repeat flowering represents the continuity of special relationships and enduring affection. This commemorative significance, combined with exceptional garden performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both emotional meaning and practical excellence.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Special Anniversary' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring commemorative beauty indoors for special occasions and meaningful arrangements. The strong stems, abundant large double blooms, and intensely powerful fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the significant meaning of the rich pink colours. The repeat flowering ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining impressive garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional arrangements that celebrate special occasions and meaningful moments.
Gift Excellence
'Special Anniversary' represents the perfect long-lasting gift that celebrates special occasions with enduring beauty rather than temporary presentations. Unlike bouquets or chocolates that fade quickly, this exceptional rose provides fragrant blooms year after year, creating lasting memories and ongoing celebration of meaningful relationships. The compact form and powerful fragrance make it ideal for gift presentations whilst ensuring the recipient enjoys years of beautiful commemorative displays.
Why Choose 'Special Anniversary'?
Rose 'Special Anniversary' represents the perfect combination of commemorative significance, exceptional performance, and meaningful beauty. The masses of large deeply fragrant rich pink blooms with their intensely powerful scent provide spectacular displays from July through September, whilst the compact growth and excellent hardiness ensure reliable performance with standard maintenance. Whether grown for anniversary celebrations, memorial gardens, meaningful gifts, or simply for its exceptional beauty and commemorative significance, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers unique value that combines heartfelt meaning with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates the special occasions and cherished relationships that enrich our lives with profound emotional connection 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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