Rose 'Belle de Jour' ('Delijaupar') - Floribunda Rose
A spectacular award-winning floribunda rose that produces abundant clusters of golden-yellow blooms with rich orange-pink edges and an intense vanilla-apricot fragrance, combining outstanding disease resistance with exceptional garden performance.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m (90-120cm stem)
- Eventual Spread: 80cm diameter head
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Rich yellow with orange-pink edges
- Hardiness: Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy, free-flowering with sturdy stems
- Flower Type: Double, densely-petalled flowers in large clusters
Overview
Rose 'Belle de Jour' is a truly exceptional floribunda rose that earned the prestigious Rose of the Year award in 2021, and it's easy to see why. This outstanding variety combines the charm of old-fashioned roses with modern garden performance, producing abundant clusters of beautifully formed golden-yellow blooms with distinctive orange-pink edges throughout the growing season. The most distinctive feature is its intense vanilla-apricot fragrance, which sets it apart from other roses and adds a unique sensory dimension to the garden. With superb disease resistance, compact growth habit, and continuous flowering performance, this rose represents the perfect balance of beauty and practicality for contemporary gardens.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Belle de Jour' lies in its abundant clusters of densely-petalled, richly fragrant golden-yellow blooms that showcase a stunning multi-tone effect as they develop. The orange-striped buds open to reveal masses of golden petals that fade to palest yellow on their outer edges, with each bloom releasing an intense fragrance with hints of vanilla and apricots. Each elegant bloom releases an intense perfume that blends the fresh scent of spring flowers with the rich warmth of vanilla and apricot. The combination of continuous flowering, exceptional disease resistance, and compact growth habit makes this rose suitable for a wide range of garden applications.
Growth Characteristics
This floribunda rose displays a naturally compact and uniform growth habit that makes it exceptionally versatile for garden use. Rose 'Belle de Jour' develops into a neat, bushy shrub with excellent branching structure. It's held on sturdy stems complemented by glossy, dark-green foliage. The compact growth habit makes it ideal for smaller gardens, container cultivation, or positioning at the front of borders where its abundant flowering can be fully appreciated. The uniform habit ensures consistent performance whether planted individually or in groups, making it an excellent choice for formal bedding schemes or informal garden settings.
Flowering Performance
Flowering from June to October, 'Belle de Jour' boasts densely-petalled flowers and deep yellow centres that blend to rich-orange on the outer petals. The plant produces masses of fully double flowers in sizeable clusters, creating substantial visual impact with each flush of blooms. Clusters of fragrant, double, rosette-shaped flowers open rich yellow, developing pink shades with age. The flowers showcase medium-sized, rosette-shaped forms that open to reveal classic old-fashioned structure with densely-packed petals. The colour develops beautifully as the blooms mature, creating depth and richness to the overall display.
Growing Conditions
'Belle de Jour' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, requiring at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight daily for optimal flowering performance. Give them an open sunny position and any deep well-drained soil including clay. The rose adapts well to various soil types, including clay soils providing adequate drainage is maintained. They need plenty of nutrients so add Bonemeal and garden compost or well-rotted manure when planting. For best results, plant in rich, fertile 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, which helps maintain the excellent disease resistance that characterises this variety.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
This rose demonstrates exceptional hardiness suitable for growing throughout the UK, showing excellent tolerance of typical British weather conditions. Disease Resistance Excellent Hardiness Zone 6, making it exceptionally resilient in British gardens. One of the most outstanding features of 'Belle de Jour' is its superb disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The glossy deep green foliage remains attractive and healthy, with natural resistance to common rose diseases such as black spot and powdery mildew. This superior disease resistance makes it an excellent choice for organic gardening approaches and reduces the need for chemical interventions.
Care and Maintenance
'Belle de Jour' requires standard floribunda rose care to maintain optimal health and flowering performance. In spring, apply a specialised rose fertiliser along with manure mulch, taking care to avoid direct contact of the mulch with the stems. Water regularly until established, particularly in the first year after planting to help establish strong root systems. In winter remove all branches which are dead, diseased or damaged along with any older stems as necessary to avoid overcrowding. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention, making it an easy-care option for busy gardeners. Deadheading regularly throughout the summer encourages continued flowering, whilst light pruning in late winter maintains the compact shape and promotes vigorous new growth.
Garden Applications
'Belle de Jour' excels in mixed borders where its compact habit and continuous flowering create sustained interest throughout the growing season. Good for use in Floristry, Bushy habit ideal for low hedging. The uniform growth habit makes it ideal for formal bedding schemes, whilst the old-fashioned flower style suits cottage garden settings perfectly. Beds and borders, City, Containers, Cottage/Informal, Flower Arranging are all suitable applications. The compact size makes it excellent for positioning at the front of borders where the unusual vanilla-apricot fragrance can be appreciated. The rose works beautifully as a specimen plant or in groups, creating impressive displays that combine visual impact with delightful fragrance.
Container Growing
The compact growth habit and excellent disease resistance make 'Belle de Jour' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation. This rose perfect for perennial gardens, containers, and as cut flowers. The rose thrives in large pots on patios, balconies, and areas where soil conditions are challenging, making it perfect for urban gardening situations. 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 manageable whilst delivering exceptional flowering performance throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Belle de Jour' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, glossy foliage and the first distinctive orange-striped flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The extended flowering season ensures months of colour and fragrance, with the golden-yellow blooms creating bright, cheerful displays that lift the spirits. The healthy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the abundant flower clusters. Even in winter, the neat branching structure provides some architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering.
Cutting and Floral Arrangements
The clusters of densely-petalled, fragrant blooms make 'Belle de Jour' excellent for cutting and indoor arrangements. Excellent rose for floristry, with the golden-yellow colouring with orange-pink edges working beautifully with a wide range of other flowers and foliage. The unique vanilla-apricot fragrance adds an unusual and memorable dimension to indoor displays. The strong stems support the flower clusters well, making them ideal for both small posies and substantial arrangements. The old-fashioned rosette form adds romantic charm to arrangements, whilst the rich fragrance provides a delightful sensory experience that lasts throughout the life of the cut flowers.
Fragrance Profile
The distinctive vanilla-apricot fragrance of 'Belle de Jour' sets it apart from other roses and provides a unique sensory experience in the garden. Each bloom releases an intense fragrance with hints of vanilla and apricots. This delightful scent emanates from the sizeable clusters of blooms, creating an interesting and memorable fragrance that complements the visual beauty of the flowers. The strong fragrance carries well in the garden, making it noticeable from a distance and adding an extra dimension to the overall garden experience. The warm, comforting scent profile makes this rose particularly interesting for fragrance gardens or positions near seating areas where the distinctive aroma can be fully appreciated.
Wildlife Value
The abundant clusters of flowers provide valuable nectar sources for bees and other pollinators throughout the extended flowering season. The accessible flower structure and continuous blooming habit make this rose an excellent choice for wildlife-friendly gardens, supporting local pollinator populations from summer through to autumn. The strong fragrance serves as a natural attractant for beneficial insects, contributing to a healthy garden ecosystem. The repeat-flowering nature ensures that wildlife benefits extend throughout the growing season, making this rose a valuable addition to pollinator-friendly garden schemes.
Companion Planting
The warm golden-yellow colouring with orange-pink edges of 'Belle de Jour' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants. The warm tones work beautifully with purple and blue flowers such as lavender, catmint, and delphiniums, creating striking complementary colour combinations. The rose pairs well with other warm-coloured flowers including oranges and reds, whilst silver-foliaged plants like artemisia provide elegant contrast. The compact habit makes it suitable for planting with herbaceous perennials, creating dynamic mixed borders that provide interest throughout the growing season.
Award Recognition
Named Rose of the Year in 2021, 'Belle de Jour' has received formal recognition for its exceptional garden performance and outstanding qualities. This prestigious award acknowledges the rose's combination of beauty, disease resistance, and garden reliability, marking it as a variety of exceptional merit. The award recognition provides confidence in the rose's performance and indicates that it has been thoroughly tested and proven in garden conditions across the UK, making it a reliable choice for gardeners seeking proven excellence.
Why Choose 'Belle de Jour'?
Rose 'Belle de Jour' represents the perfect combination of award-winning beauty, exceptional disease resistance, and practical garden performance. The abundant clusters of golden-yellow blooms with distinctive orange-pink edges and their unique vanilla-apricot fragrance provide continuous colour and interest from summer through to autumn, whilst the superb disease resistance ensures healthy growth with minimal maintenance. The compact, uniform growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from small urban spaces to large country gardens. Whether grown for its unusual fragrance, outstanding disease resistance, or simply its abundant flowering performance, this Rose of the Year winner offers exceptional value and enduring beauty that will provide years of gardening pleasure.
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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