Rose 'English Miss' - Floribunda Rose
A charming award-winning floribunda rose that produces exquisite large, pale pink double blooms with camellia-like form, combining classic English rose beauty with exceptional fragrance and outstanding garden performance throughout the growing season.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Soft blush pink with deeper pink edges
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy, upright
- Flower Type: Large, fully double, camellia-shaped blooms
Overview
Rose 'English Miss' is a truly exceptional floribunda rose that epitomises classic English rose breeding at its finest. This distinguished variety, bred by Roger Pawsey of Cants of Colchester in 1977, produces magnificent large flowers with soft blush pink petals edged in deeper pink, creating stunning camellia-like blooms with timeless appeal. The most striking feature is its remarkable flower form that combines the classic rounded shape of camellias with the repeat-flowering nature of modern floribundas, complemented by a wonderfully sweet, spicy fragrance that carries beautifully in the garden. With excellent disease resistance, compact bushy growth habit, and continuous flowering performance from June to October, this rose represents one of the finest examples of English rose breeding for contemporary gardens.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'English Miss' lies in its large, fully double blooms that showcase perfect camellia-like form with 24+ petals creating substantial visual impact both individually and in attractive clusters. Each bloom displays soft blush pink colouring with deeper pink edges, creating subtle colour variations that add depth and interest to the flowers. The blooms release a wonderful sweet, spicy fragrance that adds a powerful sensory dimension to the garden experience. The elegant flower form combined with repeat flowering, excellent disease resistance, and compact growth habit makes this rose suitable for a wide range of garden applications, from formal rose gardens to mixed borders and container cultivation.
Growth Characteristics
This floribunda rose displays a naturally compact, bushy growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for smaller gardens and container cultivation. Typically reaching 0.75-1m in height with a spread of 60-75cm, the plant develops into a well-proportioned shrub with excellent branching structure and vigorous performance. The compact yet robust growing nature ensures reliable flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, manageable size perfect for modern gardens. The upright, bushy growth habit makes it ideal for formal rose gardens, mixed borders, or positioning where its classic beauty can be fully appreciated. The strong stems provide excellent support for the large blooms, making this variety particularly suitable for cutting garden applications.
Flowering Performance
From June through to October, 'English Miss' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the growing season. The plant produces magnificent large blooms held in attractive clusters, creating substantial visual impact with each flush of flowering. The flowers showcase classic camellia-like forms with soft blush pink colouring edged in deeper pink, creating ongoing visual interest and elegance. The repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous colour throughout the growing season, with the abundant blooms providing a spectacular display that captures attention with its beauty and sweet fragrance. The long flowering period extends well into autumn, providing valuable late-season colour.
Growing Conditions
'English Miss' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, requiring at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily for optimal flowering performance and colour development. The rose adapts well to various soil types including acid, alkaline, and neutral conditions, providing adequate drainage is maintained. For best results, plant in fertile, well-drained 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. It tolerates exposed conditions well whilst also performing admirably in sheltered locations.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
This rose demonstrates exceptional hardiness suitable for growing throughout the UK, being fully hardy (H6 rating) and showing excellent tolerance of typical British weather conditions. One of the most notable features of 'English Miss' is its excellent disease resistance, particularly against black spot, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The glossy, dark green foliage with attractive purplish tints when young remains healthy and attractive, with natural resistance to common rose diseases. The flowers perform extremely well in rainy weather, making this variety particularly suitable for the British climate. This disease resistance makes it an excellent choice for organic gardening approaches and reduces the need for chemical interventions.
Care and Maintenance
'English Miss' requires standard floribunda rose care to maintain optimal health and flowering performance. Apply a balanced fertiliser and mulch in late winter or early spring, followed by another application of balanced fertiliser in early summer to support continuous flowering. Regular watering during dry periods, particularly in the first year after planting, helps establish strong root systems. 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 proper pruning following pruning group 16 guidelines maintains the bushy shape and promotes vigorous new growth.
Garden Applications
'English Miss' excels in formal rose gardens where its classic camellia-like form and soft pink colouring create elegant focal points. The compact bushy growth habit makes it ideal for rose borders and formal bedding schemes, whilst the delicate pink flowers suit both contemporary and traditional garden settings perfectly. The manageable size makes it excellent for positioning in mixed borders where the sweet fragrance can be appreciated. The rose works beautifully as a specimen plant or in groups, creating impressive displays that combine visual elegance with exceptional fragrance. The strong stems and large blooms make it particularly suitable for cutting gardens, providing graceful flowers for indoor arrangements.
Container Growing
The compact growth habit and excellent disease resistance make 'English Miss' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation. The rose thrives in large containers 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 and fragrance throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'English Miss' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, glossy dark green foliage with attractive purplish tints and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The extended flowering season from June to October ensures months of colour and fragrance, with the soft pink blooms creating elegant displays that showcase the remarkable camellia-like form. The healthy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the delicate pink flowers. Even in winter, the strong branching structure provides architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering.
Cutting and Floral Arrangements
The large, fully double blooms with strong stems make 'English Miss' exceptional for cutting and indoor arrangements. The soft blush pink colour with deeper pink edges works beautifully with a wide range of other flowers and foliage, whilst the sweet, spicy fragrance adds a delightful dimension to indoor displays. The classic camellia-like form adds elegance and sophistication to arrangements, making them particularly suitable for special occasions. The sturdy stems provide excellent support for the large blooms, ensuring good vase life and professional-quality arrangements. The subtle colouring and classic form add timeless appeal to arrangements, whilst the sweet fragrance provides a memorable sensory experience.
Fragrance Profile
The wonderful sweet, spicy fragrance of 'English Miss' provides an exceptional sensory experience in the garden. This delightful scent emanates from the large blooms and carries well in the garden, creating a pleasant fragrance that perfectly complements the visual beauty of the flowers. The sweet fragrance profile makes this rose particularly suitable for fragrance gardens or areas where a classic, pleasant rose fragrance is desired. The scent is strong enough to be appreciated from a distance yet refined enough to be enjoyed up close, making it ideal for positioning near seating areas or pathways.
Wildlife Value
The large, accessible blooms provide valuable nectar sources for bees and other pollinators throughout the extended flowering season. The continuous blooming habit from June to October makes this rose an excellent choice for wildlife-friendly gardens, supporting local pollinator populations throughout the growing season. The sweet fragrance serves as an 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 soft blush pink colours of 'English Miss' provide excellent opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants. The delicate pink tones work beautifully with white and cream flowers, creating gentle, harmonious displays. The rose pairs exceptionally well with silver-foliaged plants such as artemisia and lavender, creating sophisticated combinations that enhance the soft colouring. Purple and blue flowers provide complementary tones, whilst yellow flowers create cheerful contrasts. The compact habit makes it suitable for planting with herbaceous perennials, creating dynamic mixed borders that provide interest throughout the growing season.
Award Recognition and Heritage
'English Miss' has received recognition including the Trial Ground Certificate from the Royal National Rose Society, providing confidence in its exceptional garden performance and outstanding qualities. Bred by Roger Pawsey of Cants of Colchester, Essex in 1977 and introduced to Great Britain in 1979, this variety represents the finest tradition of English rose breeding. Cants of Colchester, founded in 1765, is the oldest commercial rose growing firm in Great Britain, and their expertise is evident in this exceptional variety. The award recognition marks this variety as one of exceptional merit, combining classic beauty, wonderful fragrance, and reliable garden performance.
Cut Flower Garden Excellence
The exceptional qualities of 'English Miss' make it particularly suitable for cut flower gardens. The large, perfectly formed blooms with their soft pink colouring and wonderful fragrance create stunning floral displays that are perfect for both everyday enjoyment and special occasions. The strong stems provide excellent support for the blooms, ensuring good vase life and professional-quality arrangements. The camellia-like form and subtle colouring provide versatility for various arrangement styles, from formal displays to informal cottage garden bouquets.
Unique Colour Appeal
The most distinctive feature of 'English Miss' is its beautiful soft blush pink colouring with deeper pink edges, creating subtle colour variations that add depth and sophistication to garden displays. The camellia-like form of the flowers sets it apart from conventional rose shapes, creating a unique appeal that combines the best of both rose and camellia characteristics. The soft pink tones are particularly versatile, working beautifully in both pastel and mixed colour schemes, whilst the deeper pink edges provide definition and visual interest.
Why Choose 'English Miss'?
Rose 'English Miss' represents the perfect combination of classic English rose beauty, wonderful fragrance, and exceptional garden performance. The large, fully double blooms with their soft pink colouring and camellia-like form provide continuous elegance and visual appeal from June through to October, whilst the excellent disease resistance ensures healthy growth with minimal maintenance. The compact, bushy growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from formal rose gardens to mixed borders and container cultivation. Whether grown for its classic blooms, sweet fragrance, or as a stunning cut flower rose, this exceptional floribunda rose offers outstanding value and enduring beauty that will provide years of gardening pleasure and delightful sensory experiences.
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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