Rose 'Felicite Perpetue' - Rambling Rose
An award-winning magnificent rambling rose producing abundant clusters of exquisite creamy-white rosette-shaped blooms with delicate primrose fragrance, complemented by glossy semi-evergreen foliage, graceful relatively thornless stems, and spectacular once-yearly flowering displays, making it perfect for large walls, pergolas, trees, and extensive garden structures.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy semi-evergreen rambling rose
- Eventual Height: 6 metres
- Eventual Spread: 4 metres
- Flowering Period: July to September
- Flower Colour: Creamy-white to blush-pink opening from pink buds
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, rambling with graceful relatively thornless stems
- Flower Type: Large fully double rosette-shaped blooms in abundant clusters
- Fragrance: Delicate wild primrose fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Felicite Perpetue' stands as one of the finest award-winning rambling roses ever bred, producing abundant clusters of exquisite creamy-white blooms with exceptional garden performance and graceful character. This outstanding heritage variety creates unforgettable garden experiences with its large fully double rosette-shaped flowers that display classic rambling rose charm, where each bloom features creamy-white petals with occasional blush-pink tints opening from red-tipped pink buds that create stunning visual effects during its spectacular July flowering season. The delicate wild primrose fragrance makes this rose particularly treasured for its subtle aromatic appeal. The flowers are produced in magnificent abundance during the spectacular once-yearly display, creating a sea of white blooms that transforms garden structures. The delicate primrose scent complements the exquisite visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both heritage cottage gardens and contemporary landscape designs with exceptional elegance and timeless beauty.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Felicite Perpetue' lies in its abundant clusters of spectacular blooms that showcase perfect rambling rose character with delicate fragrance and substantial garden presence. Each flower displays classic rosette formation with fully double petals featuring creamy-white colouring with occasional blush-pink tints in harmonious arrangements, creating blooms of remarkable visual elegance and refined appeal. The delicate wild primrose fragrance provides subtle aromatic experiences that enhance the garden atmosphere whilst maintaining sophisticated appeal throughout the flowering season. The flowers are produced abundantly in clusters during the spectacular July flush, opening from attractive red-tipped pink buds that add anticipation to the magnificent garden display. The delicate primrose fragrance complements the exquisite visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both structural garden applications and everyday garden enjoyment with exceptional refinement and heritage charm.
Growth Characteristics
The graceful relatively thornless stems provide excellent climbing capabilities whilst maintaining elegant character, making this variety particularly valuable for walls, pergolas, trees, and boundary applications where substantial coverage and refined appearance are essential. The glossy semi-evergreen foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the creamy-white blooms whilst providing year-round structural interest and excellent appearance. The vigorous rambling growth ensures spectacular flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from large walls and extensive structures to tree climbing applications, with the considerable size making it suitable for established gardens and prominent features where its magnificent flowering display can be fully appreciated.
Flowering Performance
During July, 'Felicite Perpetue' delivers one of the most spectacular flowering displays in the rambling rose world with abundant once-yearly flush that creates breathtaking garden impact. The plant produces masses of clustered blooms consistently across its entire framework, creating a sea of white beauty with outstanding performance that ensures unforgettable garden experiences. The individual blooms develop with perfect rosette formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the exquisite creamy-white colouring and delicate fragrance, whilst the fully double structure ensures each flower maintains its beautiful appearance and refined appeal for extended periods. The magnificent once-yearly flowering nature ensures a truly spectacular seasonal highlight, with the abundant white clusters providing intensive coverage that transforms garden structures with their heritage beauty and elegant charm.
Growing Conditions
'Felicite Perpetue' thrives in full sun to dappled shade with well-drained humus-rich soil, demonstrating remarkable adaptability to various growing conditions including partially shaded locations where many roses struggle. The rose adapts exceptionally well to different aspects including north-facing positions, responding excellently to both sunny and shadier locations where the creamy-white colours maintain their elegance. For best results, provide substantial structural support with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the vigorous growth and spectacular flowering displays. The variety benefits from annual feeding and responds well to standard rambling rose care practices, whilst the substantial vigour makes it essential to provide adequate space and robust structural support for diverse garden applications from walls and large structures to tree climbing and extensive boundary coverage.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Felicite Perpetue' demonstrates excellent hardiness characteristics with outstanding resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with good disease resistance for a rambling rose. The variety shows exceptional tolerance to seasonal variations and challenging weather conditions, making it highly reliable for gardeners seeking dependable structural plantings with heritage character. The glossy semi-evergreen foliage remains attractive and healthy with natural disease resilience, providing year-round interest whilst making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking reliable heritage plantings with manageable maintenance requirements. The hardy constitution ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions including challenging aspects, supporting reliable flowering performance and structural coverage throughout the growing season.
Care and Maintenance
'Felicite Perpetue' requires standard rambling rose maintenance with particular attention to structural support and annual pruning to manage its vigorous growth and maintain optimal flowering performance. Provide substantial structural support capable of bearing the considerable mature weight, with annual feeding in early spring using balanced fertiliser to support the vigorous development and spectacular flower production. The vigorous nature means this variety benefits from careful annual pruning after flowering to maintain shape and promote healthy new growth, making it suitable for gardeners prepared to manage substantial rambling roses. The relatively thornless stems make maintenance more comfortable than many rambling varieties, whilst proper training and support ensure optimal coverage and spectacular flowering displays.
Garden Applications
'Felicite Perpetue' excels in large structural garden applications and heritage garden features where its award-winning performance and graceful character can be fully appreciated. The exquisite creamy-white clusters make it ideal for cottage gardens, heritage displays, and traditional landscapes where substantial coverage and refined elegance are essential for authentic period character. Perfect for training over large walls, extensive pergolas, through trees, and on substantial garden structures, this rose provides outstanding visual impact with its spectacular once-yearly flowering display that creates unforgettable seasonal highlights. The vigorous growth and abundant clustering make it particularly suitable for covering extensive areas and large structures, whilst the delicate fragrance ensures it provides memorable aromatic experiences that define heritage garden character and traditional English garden atmosphere.
Tree Climbing Excellence
The vigorous rambling growth and relatively thornless stems make 'Felicite Perpetue' exceptionally well-suited for climbing through trees, where its graceful habit and abundant white blooms create spectacular natural displays. The rose's tolerance for partial shade makes it ideal for tree climbing applications where dappled light conditions suit its adaptable nature whilst creating magical woodland garden features.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Felicite Perpetue' provides exceptional seasonal interest with spectacular July flowering and attractive semi-evergreen structural presence. Spring brings the emergence of glossy foliage and the formation of clustered red-tipped pink buds, building anticipation for the magnificent flowering display. The spectacular creamy-white blooms during July provide weeks of intense elegant colour and delicate primrose fragrance that creates the garden's seasonal highlight, transforming structures with refined beauty. The attractive semi-evergreen foliage provides year-round structural interest and coverage, whilst the graceful rambling framework provides attractive architectural presence during dormant periods and supports the heritage garden character throughout all seasons.
Fragrance Profile
'Felicite Perpetue' features delicate wild primrose fragrance that complements the exquisite visual display and enhances the refined garden experience. The subtle scent adds sophisticated aromatic appeal to garden structures whilst making this rose particularly valuable for areas where delicate fragrance contributes to heritage garden authenticity. The primrose fragrance enhances garden atmosphere with understated elegance and makes this variety suitable for traditional plantings where subtle scent contributes to the overall heritage experience, particularly during peak flowering when the delicate perfume creates lasting aromatic impressions that epitomise English garden refinement.
Companion Planting
The creamy-white colouring with blush-pink tints of 'Felicite Perpetue' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and elegant colour schemes. The white tones work beautifully with purple and blue perennials for traditional contrast that highlights both the heritage character and refined elegance, whilst silver and grey foliage plants complement the creamy hues perfectly. Soft pastel flowers provide harmonious displays that allow the white purity to dominate, whilst the delicate fragrance makes it suitable for planting with other heritage aromatic plants that enhance the garden's traditional atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Award Recognition
'Felicite Perpetue' carries exceptional heritage significance as a classic rambling rose bred by Jacques & Perpétue in 1827, holding the prestigious Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. This award-winning variety is recognised as one of the finest ramblers, representing nearly two centuries of garden excellence and heritage rose breeding achievement. The combination of historical importance and modern recognition makes it particularly meaningful for heritage garden restorations and traditional landscape applications.
Semi-Evergreen Advantage
The semi-evergreen foliage characteristic provides year-round structural interest and coverage, making 'Felicite Perpetue' particularly valuable for applications where seasonal interest extends beyond the flowering period. This feature ensures attractive garden presence throughout winter months whilst providing ongoing structural coverage on walls and garden features.
Cut Flower Potential
The spectacular rosette-shaped blooms make 'Felicite Perpetue' valuable for gardeners who wish to bring heritage beauty and delicate fragrance indoors for special occasions and traditional arrangements. The graceful stems, abundant clustered blooms with creamy-white colouring, and delicate primrose fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the heritage significance of the spectacular flowering display.
Wildlife and Pollinator Value
The abundant clustered blooms make 'Felicite Perpetue' highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and beneficial pollinators, contributing significantly to garden biodiversity and ecological health. The spectacular July flowering provides concentrated nectar and pollen resources during peak summer, making it particularly valuable for supporting pollinator populations whilst enhancing the garden's natural ecosystem with elegant white beauty that attracts beneficial insects.
Shade Tolerance Excellence
The remarkable shade tolerance makes 'Felicite Perpetue' suitable for challenging growing positions including north-facing aspects and partially shaded locations, where many roses struggle to perform effectively. This adaptability extends its garden applications to diverse locations whilst maintaining spectacular flowering performance.
Why Choose 'Felicite Perpetue'?
Rose 'Felicite Perpetue' represents the perfect combination of heritage excellence, award-winning performance, and refined beauty. The abundant rosette-shaped blooms in exquisite creamy-white with their delicate primrose fragrance provide unforgettable displays during the spectacular July flush, whilst the vigorous growth and excellent hardiness ensure dependable performance with appropriate structural support and standard rambling rose maintenance. Whether grown for heritage gardens, traditional displays, extensive structural coverage, or simply for its exceptional beauty and historical significance, this outstanding award-winning rambling rose offers distinctive value that combines meaningful heritage importance with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates nearly two centuries of garden tradition with refined elegance and delicate fragrance that transforms any garden structure into a seasonal highlight of timeless beauty and heritage charm.
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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