Rose 'Fascination'
Award-Winning Coral-Pink Floribunda with Continuous Summer Display
Rose 'Fascination' stands as one of the most charming and reliable floribunda roses available to gardeners, delivering exceptional beauty through its abundant clusters of coral-pink blooms that create spectacular garden displays throughout the summer months. This exceptional variety produces trusses of up to 8 semi-double flowers in rich coral-pink tones, with dark green glossy foliage that provides the perfect backdrop for continuous flowering. With its award-winning credentials, excellent repeat flowering performance, light fragrance, and free-flowering habit, 'Fascination' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking both extraordinary beauty and dependable garden performance.
Headlines
- Type: Floribunda bush rose
- Eventual Height: 75cm
- Evenual Spread: 60-75cm
- Flowering: Late spring to first frost (continuous repeat flowering)
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, bushy, well-balanced
- Colour: Coral-pink to rich pink
- Form: Semi-double blooms in clusters of up to 8 flowers
- Size: Medium-sized cupped flowers
- Petals: Semi-double form with attractive open centres
- Fragrance: Light, pleasant fragrance
Spectacular Flowers
The defining beauty of 'Fascination' lies in its abundant clusters of charming coral-pink blooms that create warm and inviting garden displays throughout the growing season. These magnificent semi-double flowers showcase rich coral-pink tones that are both distinctive and harmonious in garden settings, with each bloom displaying the cupped form and attractive proportions that make this variety so appealing.
The flowers are borne in impressive trusses of up to 8 blooms, creating substantial colour impact whilst maintaining the refined elegance that has made this variety an award winner. The coral-pink colouration provides exceptional garden presence whilst offering versatility in garden design schemes.
Delightful Fragrance
'Fascination' offers gardeners the added pleasure of a light, pleasant fragrance that enhances its already impressive visual appeal. This gentle scent adds another dimension of charm to the garden experience, making it suitable for planting near pathways or seating areas where the fragrance can be appreciated.
Outstanding Garden Performance
This superb rose demonstrates exceptional garden performance through its vigorous, bushy growth habit and reliable constitution. The variety exhibits robust, healthy growth with dark green glossy foliage that provides an attractive backdrop to the spectacular coral-pink blooms and maintains excellent garden structure throughout the season.
'Fascination' boasts exceptional free-flowering characteristics, making it suitable for gardeners of all skill levels who want abundant blooms with minimal fuss. The hardy constitution and vigorous growth ensure dependable results year after year, whilst the well-balanced habit provides consistent flower production and excellent garden presence.
Continuous Flowering Performance
As a repeat-flowering floribunda, 'Fascination' delivers continuous blooms from late spring through to the first frost, ensuring months of spectacular garden colour. The variety produces abundant clusters of flowers throughout the growing season, with reliable repeat flowering that maintains consistent garden impact for the maximum possible time.
This extended flowering performance means gardeners can enjoy the beautiful coral-pink blooms for virtually the entire growing season, making it excellent value for garden space and providing reliable seasonal colour that enhances garden displays from spring through autumn.
Growing Requirements
- Position: Full sun for best flowering and colour development
- Soil: Well-drained, fertile soil - adaptable to various soil types
- Spacing: Allow adequate space for mature spread of 60-75cm
- Care: Regular feeding and watering during growing season
- Winter Care: Fully hardy requiring minimal winter protection
The variety thrives in full sun conditions and performs best in well-drained, fertile soil with regular feeding during the growing season. The hardy constitution makes it suitable for growing across the UK and Ireland with minimal winter protection required.
Garden Uses
'Fascination' offers exceptional versatility for various garden applications:
- Mixed Borders: Provides warm colour and reliable structure in perennial plantings
- Rose Gardens: Outstanding for rose collections requiring free-flowering varieties
- Cut Flower Gardens: Excellent for creating cheerful flower arrangements
- Container Gardens: Suitable for large containers and patio displays
- Hedging: Ideal for informal hedging applications
- Cottage Gardens: Perfect for informal settings with its warm, welcoming colour
- Standard Roses: Available as full and half standards for formal displays
- Mass Plantings: Excellent for creating substantial colour displays
Award-Winning Excellence
'Fascination' has earned recognition as an award-winning variety, confirming its exceptional combination of flower quality, garden performance, and overall excellence. This recognition validates the variety's outstanding characteristics and ensures gardeners can plant with complete confidence in its proven performance.
The award-winning status guarantees that this variety has been recognised for its superior qualities and reliable garden performance by horticultural experts.
Perfect for Cutting
The strong stems and abundant flower production make 'Fascination' excellent for cut flower arrangements. The coral-pink blooms create cheerful arrangements that bring the garden's beauty indoors, whilst the light fragrance adds another dimension to indoor displays. The continuous flowering ensures plenty of cutting material throughout the season.
Companion Planting
The warm coral-pink blooms work beautifully with complementary colours such as deep purples, blues, or silver foliage that create striking contrasts, whilst cream, white, or soft yellow companions enhance the warm tones. The dark green glossy foliage provides excellent structure and seasonal interest as a backdrop to other plants.
Care and Maintenance
'Fascination' exemplifies easy-care gardening with its vigorous constitution and reliable performance. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering throughout the season, whilst annual feeding maintains optimal performance and flower production.
The hardy nature and disease resistance typical of modern floribundas mean minimal intervention is required, making it suitable for both novice and experienced gardeners seeking reliable roses that deliver consistent results.
Why Choose 'Fascination'?
Rose 'Fascination' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking an award-winning rose that combines distinctive coral-pink beauty with exceptional reliability and continuous flowering. Its free-flowering habit, light fragrance, vigorous growth, and hardy constitution make it both a stunning garden feature and practical growing choice.
Whether you're creating warm colour schemes in mixed borders, seeking reliable roses for cutting gardens, wanting a variety suitable for containers, or looking for roses that provide months of continuous colour, 'Fascination' delivers outstanding results. Its award-winning performance, proven garden reliability, and charming coral-pink blooms make it an essential choice for gardeners who appreciate roses that combine horticultural excellence with practical growing advantages and distinctive beauty that provides reliable colour and charm throughout the growing season.
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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