Rose 'Duchess of Cornwall' - Hybrid Tea Rose (Also known as 'Tan97159')
A magnificent nostalgic hybrid tea rose producing beautifully formed large cupped flowers in stunning deep apricot-orange that ages gracefully to warm pink, complemented by exceptional fragrance, excellent disease resistance, and reliable repeat flowering, making it perfect for traditional gardens, cutting displays, and fragrant rose collections.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 90cm
- Eventual Spread: 70cm
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Deep apricot-orange aging to warm pink
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Upright, vigorous and compact
- Flower Type: Large, cupped, fully double blooms
- Fragrance: Exceptional strong sweet fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Duchess of Cornwall' represents one of the finest examples of modern nostalgic hybrid tea breeding, combining the romantic charm of old-fashioned roses with contemporary garden performance and exceptional fragrance. This award-winning variety, bred by renowned German breeder Rosen Tantau and introduced in 2005, produces magnificent large cupped flowers in stunning deep apricot-orange that gracefully ages to warm pink tones, creating an enchanting colour evolution throughout each bloom's lifecycle. Named in honour of Queen Camilla to celebrate her wedding to the Prince of Wales, this royal rose has earned the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit for its outstanding garden performance. With its compact yet vigorous upright growth habit, exceptional disease resistance, superb fragrance, and reliable repeat flowering from early summer through autumn, 'Duchess of Cornwall' delivers outstanding garden performance with minimal maintenance, making it ideal for both traditional cottage gardens and contemporary borders where romantic beauty and aromatic excellence are desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Duchess of Cornwall' lies in its beautifully formed large cupped flowers that showcase perfect nostalgic form with exceptional colour complexity and substance. Each bloom displays fully double cupped form that creates elegant displays reminiscent of heritage roses, whilst the unusual orangey-pink colouring provides unique garden appeal that sets this variety apart from typical hybrid tea roses. The distinctive colour characteristic begins with deep apricot-orange that gracefully fades to warm pink as the flowers age, creating continuous colour interest and evolution throughout the bloom cycle. The flowers are borne singularly and in small clusters on short stout stems that readily support the large blooms, ensuring excellent presentation and cutting potential. The exceptional strong sweet fragrance of medium intensity makes this rose particularly valuable for sensory gardens and areas where aromatic appeal enhances the garden experience.
Growth Characteristics
The upright growth habit with strong stems provides excellent support for the large cupped flowers, making this variety particularly suitable for cutting and formal garden applications where reliable performance and manageable size are important. The healthy light green to olive-green foliage creates attractive backdrop for the spectacular blooms whilst maintaining excellent disease resistance throughout the growing season. The medium growth size ensures it fits well into smaller gardens whilst still delivering substantial visual and aromatic impact through its abundant flowering displays.
Flowering Performance
From early summer through to autumn, 'Duchess of Cornwall' delivers exceptional flowering displays with reliable repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant starts its flowering season very early and produces many flowering stems, creating substantial visual impact with continuous colour and fragrance. The individual blooms develop slowly, allowing gardeners to appreciate the colour evolution from deep apricot-orange through to warm pink, whilst the cupped form ensures each flower creates significant garden presence. The repeat-flowering nature typical of this variety means continuous displays throughout the season, with the large cupped blooms providing spectacular focal points that capture attention with their unique colour and powerful fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Duchess of Cornwall' thrives in full sun with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, requiring at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily for optimal flowering performance and fragrance development. The rose grows best in any well-drained, fertile soil and adapts well to various soil types providing adequate drainage is maintained. Tantau recommends plantation in small groups for maximum impact, though the variety also performs excellently as a solitary specimen or in containers. The rose benefits from incorporation of well-rotted organic matter and responds well to regular feeding with rose fertiliser twice yearly to support the vigorous growth and abundant flower production.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
One of the most notable features of 'Duchess of Cornwall' is its good disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The healthy light green to olive-green foliage remains attractive and vigorous, with natural resistance to common rose diseases that makes it an excellent choice for organic gardening approaches. This exceptional disease resistance, combined with the award-winning garden performance, makes it particularly suitable for busy gardeners seeking low-maintenance excellence with exceptional fragrance and unique colour.
Care and Maintenance
'Duchess of Cornwall' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and health. Feed twice a year with rose fertiliser, applying in early spring and again in early summer to support continuous flowering and healthy growth. Regular watering during dry periods, particularly at the base of the plant whilst avoiding splashing foliage to prevent disease, helps maintain optimal health. The good disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention beyond standard care practices. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the compact shape and promotes vigorous new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Duchess of Cornwall' excels in traditional and cottage garden settings where its nostalgic charm and exceptional fragrance can be fully appreciated. The compact upright growth habit makes it ideal for mixed borders, formal displays, and cottage garden plantings where reliable performance and distinctive colour evolution can create romantic focal points. Perfect for any bed or mixed border, this rose provides excellent cut flowers with exceptional vase life and powerful fragrance that enhances indoor spaces. The manageable size and award-winning reliability make it particularly suitable for entrance plantings, foundation gardens, and anywhere consistent flowering with exceptional fragrance and unique colour is required.
Container Growing
The compact growth habit and excellent disease resistance make 'Duchess of Cornwall' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and small gardens. Tantau specifically recommends this variety for container growing, where its exceptional fragrance can be fully appreciated and its colour evolution closely observed. Choose containers at least 50cm wide and deep with adequate 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 compact habit and exceptional fragrance make this worthwhile for gardeners with limited space seeking award-winning rose excellence.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Duchess of Cornwall' provides exceptional seasonal interest that evolves beautifully with changing conditions. Spring brings the emergence of healthy light green foliage and early flowering that begins the extended blooming season. The spectacular flowers from early summer through autumn provide months of evolving colour from deep apricot-orange to warm pink, with exceptional fragrance that intensifies in warm weather. The attractive foliage remains healthy throughout the season with excellent disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the strong upright branching structure provides architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Duchess of Cornwall' features exceptional strong sweet fragrance that makes it particularly valuable for sensory gardens and areas where aromatic appeal is paramount. The superb fragrance intensity makes this rose ideal for cutting gardens and areas where both visual beauty and aromatic excellence are desired. The powerful scent carries well in garden air, making it noticeable from a distance and adding significant aromatic dimension to garden spaces. This exceptional fragrance quality, combined with the excellent cut flower characteristics, makes it particularly suitable for bringing indoors where the scent can be fully appreciated.
Companion Planting
The unique deep apricot-orange colouring that ages to warm pink provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The warm apricot tones work beautifully with purple and blue flowers such as lavender and catmint, creating romantic cottage garden combinations. Cream and white flowers provide elegant contrast whilst complementary warm colours create harmonious displays. The exceptional fragrance makes it suitable for planting with aromatic herbs and perennials that enhance the sensory garden experience, creating layered fragrant displays that provide continuous aromatic interest throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Innovation
'Duchess of Cornwall' represents exceptional modern breeding achievement by renowned German breeder Rosen Tantau, introduced in 2005 and already considered one of Tantau's most successful roses. The variety demonstrates innovative breeding that successfully integrated nostalgic charm with contemporary garden performance, earning the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit for outstanding characteristics. The royal naming in honour of Queen Camilla adds significant historical interest whilst the alternative names 'Music Hall' in France and 'Chippendale' in Germany reflect its international recognition and appeal.
Award-Winning Excellence
One of the most valued features of 'Duchess of Cornwall' is its award-winning status, having received the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit for exceptional garden performance and reliability. This recognition acknowledges the variety's outstanding combination of beauty, fragrance, disease resistance, and garden performance that sets it apart from ordinary roses. The award highlights the successful integration of nostalgic charm with modern garden excellence that makes this rose valuable for contemporary gardening.
Royal Heritage
The royal naming in honour of Queen Camilla to celebrate her wedding to the Prince of Wales adds significant interest and prestige to this exceptional variety. The connection to British royal history, combined with the outstanding garden performance, makes this rose particularly appealing to gardeners who appreciate both heritage significance and practical garden excellence.
Why Choose 'Duchess of Cornwall'?
Rose 'Duchess of Cornwall' represents the perfect combination of nostalgic charm, award-winning performance, and exceptional fragrance. The large cupped flowers with their unique colour evolution from deep apricot-orange to warm pink provide continuous visual interest from early summer through autumn, whilst the excellent disease resistance and compact growth ensure reliable performance with minimal maintenance. Whether grown for its royal heritage, exceptional fragrance, award-winning characteristics, or outstanding cut flower qualities, this remarkable hybrid tea rose offers exceptional value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and unforgettable aromatic experiences that capture the essence of romantic garden beauty in any contemporary 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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