Rose 'Special Wishes' - Patio Rose
A compact vigorous floribunda rose producing abundant medium-sized blooms in stunning soft pink tones with light fragrance, complemented by distinctive dark green glossy foliage, excellent repeat flowering performance, and bushy upright growth, making it perfect for borders, bedding schemes, containers, and charming garden displays.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 40cm
- Eventual Spread: 30cm
- Flowering Period: June to August
- Flower Colour: Soft pink with peachy undertones
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -15 to -10 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H5)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy, upright with vigorous growth
- Flower Type: Medium-sized double blooms in attractive clusters
- Fragrance: Light to moderate fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Special Wishes' stands as a delightful modern floribunda rose, producing abundant spectacular blooms that showcase beautiful soft pink colouring with light fragrance intensity. This exceptional variety creates memorable garden displays with its medium-sized clustered flowers that display classic floribunda form, where each bloom features lovely soft pink tones with subtle peachy undertones that create charming effects throughout the extended flowering season. The distinctive compact bushy stature makes this rose particularly outstanding among border plantings, representing grace and garden charm. The flowers are produced continually from early summer through autumn in attractive clusters on strong stems, with this remarkable variety offering exceptional performance and reliability for modern garden applications. The light fragrance complements the extraordinary visual appeal, creating outstanding garden experiences that enhance both traditional garden settings and contemporary landscape designs with exceptional flowering continuity and reliable performance.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Special Wishes' lies in its abundant medium-sized blooms that showcase perfect clustered formation with exceptional colour beauty and substantial garden presence. Each flower displays classic floribunda character featuring soft pink colouring with peachy undertones creating delicate colour harmony, producing blooms of remarkable visual beauty and charming appeal. The beautiful colour intensity provides distinctive displays that maintain their elegance throughout the flowering season, creating gentle colour impact that symbolises tenderness and garden sophistication. The flowers open in attractive clusters carried on strong stems, with the overall effect being both romantic and contemporary in appeal. The light fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both cutting garden applications and everyday garden enjoyment with exceptional colour beauty and delicate aromatic qualities.
Growth Characteristics
The strong upright stems provide excellent support for the abundant flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for border plantings, bedding schemes, and container applications where reliable flowering performance and neat presentation are crucial. The distinctive dark green glossy foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the soft pink bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent appearance and vigour. The compact bushy growth with upright habit ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that adapts well to various garden situations, with the manageable height making it suitable for smaller gardens, front borders, and intimate spaces where charming floral interest is desired without overwhelming proportions.
Flowering Performance
From June through to August, 'Special Wishes' delivers exceptional flowering displays with excellent repeat flowering that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant flowers continuously with outstanding performance that ensures ongoing garden beauty and gentle aromatic pleasure throughout summer into autumn. The individual blooms develop in attractive clusters carried on strong stems, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect soft pink colour and light fragrance, whilst the double form ensures each flower maintains its beautiful appearance and delicate charm for extended periods. The free-flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the ongoing soft pink blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their distinctive gentle palette and continuous flowering performance.
Growing Conditions
'Special Wishes' thrives in full sun to partial shade with fertile, well-drained soil enriched with organic matter, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance and colour development. The rose adapts well to various soil conditions and responds excellently to an open sunny aspect where the beautiful soft pink colours can be fully appreciated and the light fragrance can be enjoyed. For best results, plant in positions with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted compost to support the vigorous flowering and outstanding foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard floribunda rose care practices, whilst the compact growth makes it suitable for various garden applications where its charming beauty and reliable performance can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Special Wishes' demonstrates good hardiness characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with reasonable disease resistance. The variety shows adequate resistance to seasonal variations and weather conditions, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable border plantings with charming impact. The distinctive dark green glossy foliage remains attractive and vigorous with standard disease resistance, making it a suitable choice for gardeners seeking reliable plantings with manageable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable colour development and flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Care and Maintenance
'Special Wishes' requires standard floribunda rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and colour beauty, with particular attention to regular feeding and watering. 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 reasonable disease resistance means this variety requires standard intervention with regular care practices, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable plantings with charming garden impact. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular colour display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the compact bushy shape and promotes vigorous new growth for optimal flowering performance and colour development.
Garden Applications
'Special Wishes' excels in border plantings, bedding schemes, and mixed plantings where its gentle pink beauty can be fully appreciated whilst providing continuous colour impact. The soft pink colour makes it ideal for romantic gardens, cottage garden settings, and gentle landscapes where reliable flowering and charming appeal are essential. Perfect for positioning in front borders, mixed beds, rose gardens, and as specimen plants, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with strong stems and good vase life that enhance floral arrangements with soft pink colour and light fragrance for special occasions and delicate displays. The compact bushy growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating impressive displays in established gardens, whilst the manageable height ensures it provides perfect presence in diverse garden settings without overwhelming neighbouring plants.
Container Growing
The compact vigorous growth makes 'Special Wishes' excellent for container cultivation on patios, terraces, and balconies where beautiful pink colour and reliable flowering are desired. The rose thrives in containers where its soft pink bloom colours can create attractive focal points whilst providing gentle aromatic enjoyment, making it excellent for courtyard gardens, urban spaces, and confined areas. 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 regular watering and feeding, whilst the compact habit and exceptional flowering make container growing an ideal option for urban gardening applications where charming colours and reliable performance are valued.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Special Wishes' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous soft pink colour and outstanding flowering performance. Spring brings the emergence of distinctive dark green glossy foliage and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular soft pink blooms from June through August provide months of gentle colour and light fragrance that maintains beauty throughout the season, creating consistent charming impact and elegant visual appeal. The attractive glossy foliage remains healthy throughout the season, providing perfect backdrop for the striking flower displays, whilst the compact bushy framework provides neat architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Special Wishes' features light to moderate fragrance that provides pleasant aromatic appeal and enhances the charming garden experience. The gentle scent adds aromatic pleasure to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for intimate gardens where both visual beauty and subtle aromatic interest are desired for daily enjoyment. The light fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where scent contributes to the romantic garden experience, particularly during evening garden enjoyment when the gentle perfume creates lasting impressions alongside the beautiful bushy presence and soft colour beauty.
Companion Planting
The soft pink colouring of 'Special Wishes' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and gentle colour schemes that enhance both visual impact and charming appeal. The soft pink tones work beautifully with purple and blue flowers for elegant contrast that highlights both the gentle qualities and romantic character, whilst silver and grey foliage plants complement the delicate tones effectively. White and cream flowers provide sophisticated displays that allow the soft pink hues to shine, whilst the light fragrance makes it suitable for planting with other aromatic plants and gentle flowers that enhance the garden's charming atmosphere and create harmonious colour experiences that celebrate tenderness and beauty.
Modern Breeding Excellence
One of the valued features of 'Special Wishes' is its modern breeding excellence, representing achievements in contemporary floribunda rose development and making it particularly meaningful for modern garden displays. The breeding heritage combined with the hopeful cultivar name symbolises wishes, dreams, and garden joy. This significance, combined with exceptional garden performance and charming colour beauty, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both contemporary excellence and practical performance for gentle garden themes and reliable landscape applications where modern quality and charming appeal are valued for their dependable character.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Special Wishes' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring gentle beauty and light fragrance indoors for special occasions and delicate arrangements. The strong stems, abundant medium-sized blooms with soft pink colouring, and light fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the significance of the charming colour beauty and gentle aromatic qualities. The continuous flowering nature ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional arrangements that provide gentle statements for indoor spaces and tender celebrations with good vase life and persistent colour charm.
Exhibition and Show Potential
The attractive clustered blooms and classic floribunda form make 'Special Wishes' a suitable choice for exhibition purposes and flower shows where gentle colour and modern breeding create memorable displays. The medium-sized blooms in attractive clusters with their soft pink colouring provide consistent quality flowers that demonstrate modern floribunda rose breeding, making this variety valuable for competitive gardening and horticultural exhibitions where contemporary qualities and reliable flowering performance contribute to success and create impressive displays with charming visual appeal and gentle colour beauty.
Border Excellence
'Special Wishes' carries significance as an outstanding border rose and compact floribunda, making it particularly valuable for gardeners seeking manageable garden impact and exceptional flowering displays with gentle colouring. The excellent compact height combined with soft pink colour and light fragrance makes it suitable for gardens that require reliable flowering with charming appeal, whilst the outstanding performance ensures lasting beauty that continues to provide impressive displays throughout the growing season with reasonable disease resistance that creates manageable gardening solutions requiring standard intervention for optimal colour and flowering effect.
Why Choose 'Special Wishes'?
Rose 'Special Wishes' represents the perfect combination of modern excellence, gentle beauty, and outstanding flowering performance. The abundant medium-sized blooms in beautiful soft pink with their light fragrance provide exceptional displays from June through August, whilst the compact bushy growth and good hardiness ensure dependable performance with standard maintenance requirements. Whether grown for romantic gardens, gentle displays, cutting gardens, or simply for its exceptional beauty, modern breeding, and charming colour, this outstanding floribunda rose offers distinctive value that combines contemporary breeding excellence with reliable garden performance, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates wishes and garden charm with exceptional colour beauty and gentle aromatic qualities that enhance any garden setting where border beauty, modern quality, and reliable flowering are appreciated for both visual impact and charming appeal that brings tenderness and joy to garden spaces with proven reliability and contemporary breeding excellence.
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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