Rose 'Conrad F Meyer' - Shrub Rose
A magnificent shrub rose that brings exceptional robustness to any garden space with its abundant displays of beautifully formed silvery-pink blooms, powerful sweet fragrance, and outstanding flowering performance throughout the season, perfectly complemented by distinctive rugose foliage and vigorous hardy growth that makes it ideal for coastal gardens, specimen plantings, windbreaks, and resilient garden displays where exceptional hardiness and reliable performance are essential.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous shrub rose
- Eventual Height: 240cm
- Eventual Spread: 180cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Silvery-pink with soft rose undertones
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -25 to -20 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H7)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, upright, with strong robust habit
- Flower Type: Double blooms with classic formation
- Fragrance: Powerful, sweet fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Conrad F Meyer' exemplifies resilient garden excellence, producing continuous displays of spectacular silvery-pink blooms that create breathtaking hardy beauty throughout the extended growing season. This outstanding rugosa hybrid variety transforms garden spaces with its perfectly proportioned vigorous growth that showcases abundant displays of double blooms, where individual flowers feature beautiful silvery-pink petals with soft rose undertones in magnificent arrangements that create robust visual presence in any garden setting. The elegant hardy colour palette makes this rose particularly impressive for coastal gardens and challenging border displays, representing strength, endurance, and garden resilience. The flowers emerge in repeated displays throughout the season with good repeat flowering, creating sustained displays that reach perfect proportions with consistent appealing beauty. The powerful sweet fragrance enhances the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that complement both traditional mixed borders and challenging landscape designs with hardy beauty and reliable vigorous performance.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Conrad F Meyer' lies in its abundant double blooms that showcase classic formation with spectacular hardy elegance and perfect vigorous presence. Each flower displays beautifully formed structure with double petals featuring silvery-pink colour with soft rose undertones in magnificent arrangements, creating displays of exceptional beauty and resilient charm. The luminous silvery-pink colour provides enchanting displays that maintain their elegant impact throughout the flowering season, creating spectacular visual grace that symbolises strength and garden endurance. The flowers are produced abundantly with good repeat flowering characteristics, emerging continuously throughout the summer that add magnificent anticipation to the garden display. The powerful sweet fragrance complements the elegant visual appeal, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both border applications and garden enjoyment with hardy colour sophistication and delightful aromatic charm.
Growth Characteristics
The vigorous upright growth provides excellent proportioned structure for impressive border displays and substantial garden features, making this variety particularly valuable for challenging situations, specimen positions, and garden applications where exceptional hardiness and spectacular flowering coverage are essential. The distinctive rugose foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive textured backdrop that perfectly complements the silvery-pink bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent vigour and distinctive appeal. The strong robust growth habit ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial visual impact that fits perfectly into diverse garden settings, with the hardy size making it ideal for both challenging border positions and specimen garden locations where its resilient beauty can be fully appreciated.
Flowering Performance
Throughout the summer to early autumn, 'Conrad F Meyer' delivers exceptional flowering displays with good repeat blooming that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces abundant silvery-pink blooms consistently, creating impressive visual impact with exceptional performance that ensures ongoing garden elegance. The individual double blooms develop with classic formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect silvery-pink colour sophistication and hardy quality, whilst the generous flower size ensures impressive presence for extended periods with substantial garden impact. The free flowering nature with good repeat characteristics ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the ongoing elegant blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their luminous colour palette and powerful sweet fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Conrad F Meyer' thrives in full sun to partial shade with adaptable soil conditions, requiring reasonable drainage whilst tolerating challenging situations for optimal vigorous performance and colour development. The rose adapts excellently to various garden situations including coastal conditions and performs brilliantly in mixed borders, specimen positions, and challenging garden spaces where the silvery-pink colours can create maximum visual impact in demanding areas. For best results, plant in sunny to lightly shaded locations with reasonable air circulation, incorporating organic matter where possible to support the healthy vigorous growth and distinctive foliage development. The variety benefits from occasional feeding during the growing season and responds exceptionally well to minimal intervention cultivation practices, whilst the substantial hardy size makes it suitable for diverse challenging situations from exposed borders to specimen positions where its resilient qualities and silvery-pink colour elegance can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Conrad F Meyer' demonstrates excellent disease resistance characteristics with outstanding resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with exceptional vigour and robust constitution. The variety shows superior hardiness with excellent cold tolerance, making it exceptionally dependable for gardeners seeking reliable substantial plantings in challenging conditions. The distinctive rugose foliage remains vigorous and healthy with excellent disease resistance, making it an outstanding choice for gardeners seeking dependable plantings with minimal maintenance requirements. The exceptionally hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable colour development and flowering performance throughout the growing season even in challenging situations.
Care and Maintenance
'Conrad F Meyer' requires minimal maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and vigorous development. Apply balanced fertiliser in early spring if desired, with occasional watering during extended dry periods to support the healthy vigorous growth and abundant flower production. The rose benefits from light mulching around the base to retain moisture during the growing season. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention with basic care practices, making it ideal for gardeners seeking reliable substantial plantings with elegant impact and low maintenance requirements. Light deadheading after flowering encourages additional blooms, whilst minimal annual pruning in late winter maintains the vigorous structure and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance, removing only dead or damaged wood.
Garden Applications
'Conrad F Meyer' excels in resilient border displays and challenging garden features where its hardy beauty and substantial proportions can be fully appreciated. The silvery-pink colour makes it ideal for robust mixed borders, eye-catching specimen features, and coastal landscapes where elegant hardy colour impact and reliable vigorous performance are essential. Perfect for challenging gardens, exposed borders, informal hedging, and windbreak plantings, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers that enhance floral arrangements with elegant colour for special occasions and sophisticated displays. The vigorous growth and good repeat flowering make it particularly suitable for creating stunning focal points in demanding gardens and hardy collections, whilst the substantial size and resilient nature ensure it provides impressive presence in challenging spaces where its elegant colour creates spectacular hardy beauty.
Coastal Garden Integration
The vigorous robust growth makes 'Conrad F Meyer' excellently suited to coastal garden cultivation where salt tolerance and wind resistance are essential. The rose thrives in challenging coastal conditions with minimal preparation, responding well to basic care where the vigorous growth can create maximum flowering impact in demanding seaside plantings. Plant with consideration for mature spread, incorporating companion plants that thrive in similar challenging conditions. Regular basic care during the growing season ensures optimal flowering coverage and healthy development, maximising the spectacular garden display and seasonal enjoyment in coastal environments.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Conrad F Meyer' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous substantial displays and outstanding performance. Spring brings the emergence of distinctive rugose foliage and strong new vigorous growth, building anticipation for the main spectacular flowering display. The magnificent silvery-pink blooms from summer through early autumn with good repeat flowering provide months of elegant colour that maintains its sophisticated appeal throughout the season, creating consistent graceful impact. The attractive rugose foliage remains healthy throughout the season with excellent disease resistance, providing perfect textured backdrop for the substantial flower displays, whilst the vigorous upright structure provides attractive garden interest year-round with strong architectural form.
Fragrance Profile
'Conrad F Meyer' features powerful sweet fragrance that will magnificently enchant the senses, complementing the elegant visual display and enhancing the garden experience. The intense sweet perfume adds substantial aromatic appeal to garden spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for border positions where both visual beauty and strong fragrant interest are desired for memorable occasions. The powerful fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where pronounced scent contributes to the garden experience, particularly near pathways and seating areas where the sweet perfume creates lasting elegant impressions that carry beautifully on coastal breezes.
Companion Planting
The silvery-pink colouring of 'Conrad F Meyer' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and elegant hardy colour schemes. The sophisticated silvery-pink colour works beautifully with plants that provide harmonising or contrasting tones, whilst dark foliage plants provide excellent backdrop that allows the colour elegance to shine in mixed plantings. Deep purple and burgundy flowers provide striking contrasts that highlight the silvery-pink blooms, whilst complementary hardy perennials and coastal garden plants can create stunning combinations throughout the growing season.
Challenging Garden Integration
The excellent vigorous qualities and resilient nature make 'Conrad F Meyer' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to integrate reliable beauty into challenging displays and demanding garden features. The robust vigorous growth, abundant double blooms with hardy colour elegance, and powerful sweet fragrance create outstanding garden displays that provide lasting seasonal enhancement whilst maintaining the sophisticated significance of the silvery-pink colour resilience. The exceptionally reliable vigorous growth ensures impressive flowering impact whilst maintaining substantial proportions, making it ideal for both challenging garden beauty and robust border displays that provide elegant statements for demanding garden areas with excellent performance.
Hardy Appeal
'Conrad F Meyer' represents exceptional rugosa hybrid rose breeding that combines hardy beauty with substantial vigorous proportions and enduring appeal, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking distinctive roses with resilient characteristics. The elegant silvery-pink colour offers exceptional visual sophistication whilst maintaining rugosa hardiness and performance, making it particularly suitable for challenging garden designs and demanding border displays where elegant colour statements and exceptional durability are important considerations.
Resilient Garden Value
'Conrad F Meyer' offers gardeners a robust variety that combines hardy beauty with exceptional reliability and enduring appeal. The variety's elegant appearance and dependable vigorous growth habit have made it popular among gardeners who appreciate roses that combine visual sophistication with outstanding garden performance and suitability for challenging applications and demanding spaces that require exceptional garden resilience.
Why Choose 'Conrad F Meyer'?
Rose 'Conrad F Meyer' represents the perfect combination of hardy vigorous beauty, elegant colour sophistication, and outstanding reliability. The abundant displays of double silvery-pink blooms with their powerful sweet fragrance provide exceptional displays from summer through early autumn with good repeat flowering, whilst the vigorous healthy growth and excellent disease resistance ensure dependable performance with minimal maintenance requirements. Whether grown for challenging border displays, coastal garden features, resilient plantings, or simply for its hardy beauty and reliable vigorous nature, this outstanding shrub rose offers exceptional value that combines elegant appeal with outstanding garden resilience, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates strength and garden endurance with substantial sophistication that enhances any garden setting where hardiness, reliability, and perfect elegant impact are appreciated.
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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