Rose 'Festival' - Patio Rose
A spectacular award-winning patio rose that transforms garden spaces and containers with its abundant large trusses of magnificent scarlet-red blooms with distinctive silver flecking, light fragrance, and exceptional compact performance throughout the season, perfectly complemented by handsome dark green holly-like foliage and neat bushy growth habit that makes it ideal for patios, containers, borders, and celebration-themed garden displays.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous patio rose
- Eventual Height: 50 centimetres
- Eventual Spread: 45 centimetres
- Flowering Period: Summer to autumn
- Flower Colour: Rich scarlet-red with silver flecking
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Very compact, neat bushy growth
- Flower Type: Large blooms in attractive clusters
- Fragrance: Light, pleasant rose fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Festival' embodies celebratory garden beauty, producing continuous displays of magnificent scarlet-red blooms that create spectacular colour drama throughout the extended growing season. This outstanding award-winning patio variety transforms garden spaces with its abundantly flowering compact habit that showcases one of the most striking colour combinations in patio roses, where individual large blooms feature rich scarlet-red surfaces with distinctive silver flecking that creates dazzling visual impact in any garden setting. The dramatic colour palette makes this rose particularly impressive for contemporary patio settings and celebration-themed gardens, representing festivity, elegance, and garden distinction. The flowers emerge continuously from summer through autumn, creating sustained displays that maintain compact proportions with consistent spectacular appeal. The light fragrance enhances the magnificent visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that complement both traditional garden containers and modern landscape designs with celebratory beauty and dependable performance, whilst celebrating its prestigious Rose of the Year 1994 award.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Festival' lies in its abundant large blooms that showcase distinctive scarlet-red colouring with sophisticated silver flecking and charming compact presence. Each flower displays beautifully formed structure with large petals featuring rich scarlet-red surfaces distinctively flecked with silver in magnificent arrangements, creating displays of exceptional beauty and celebratory charm. The dramatic colour palette provides spectacular displays that maintain their impact throughout the flowering season, creating striking visual appeal that symbolises celebration and garden festivity. The flowers are produced continuously with excellent repeat flowering, emerging in attractive clusters that add magnificent abundance to the patio garden display. The light fragrance complements the spectacular visual appeal, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both container applications and everyday garden enjoyment with dramatic colour sophistication and gentle aromatic charm.
Growth Characteristics
The very compact neat bushy habit provides excellent controlled growth for impressive container displays, making this variety particularly valuable for patio gardens, small spaces, and architectural applications where precise compact growth and abundant flowering coverage are essential. The handsome dark green holly-like foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the scarlet-red bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent vigour and distinctive appeal. The neat bushy growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial compact impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from patio containers to border edges, with the manageable height making it suitable for both established gardens and prominent container positions where its celebratory beauty can be fully appreciated without overwhelming the space.
Flowering Performance
From summer through to autumn, 'Festival' delivers exceptional flowering displays with outstanding repeat blooming that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces abundant large blooms consistently, creating impressive compact visual impact with exceptional performance that ensures ongoing garden celebration. The individual blooms develop with classic formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect scarlet-red colour drama and distinctive silver flecking, whilst the large flower size ensures spectacular presence for extended periods. The prolific flowering nature ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the ongoing abundant blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their dramatic colour palette and light fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Festival' thrives in full sun to partial shade with fertile, well-prepared, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal flowering performance and colour development. The rose adapts well to various soil conditions and performs excellently in containers, raised beds, and garden borders where the scarlet-red colours can create maximum visual impact. For best results, plant in sunny positions with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the healthy compact growth and vigorous foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard patio rose care practices, whilst the neat bushy ability makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from containers and raised beds to border features where its celebratory qualities and award-winning heritage can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Festival' demonstrates excellent hardiness characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with good disease resistance. The variety shows strong resistance to seasonal variations and weather conditions, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable spectacular patio plantings. The handsome dark green holly-like foliage remains attractive and vigorous with good disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking dependable compact plantings with manageable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable colour development and flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Care and Maintenance
'Festival' requires standard patio rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and compact development. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular watering during dry periods to support the healthy bushy growth and abundant flower production. The good disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention with standard care practices, making it ideal for gardeners seeking reliable patio plantings with spectacular impact. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the magnificent colour display throughout the season, whilst light annual pruning in late winter maintains the neat bushy structure and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and compact coverage.
Garden Applications
'Festival' excels in celebration displays and spectacular garden features where its award-winning beauty and dramatic colour can be fully appreciated. The scarlet-red combination with silver flecking makes it ideal for contemporary container displays, celebration-themed gardens, and sophisticated patio landscapes where dramatic colour impact and dependable compact performance are essential. Perfect for containers, raised beds, border edges, and special occasion gardens, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with good stems and reasonable vase life that enhance floral arrangements with dramatic colour celebration for special occasions and festive displays. The compact growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating stunning focal points in patio settings and celebration gardens, whilst the neat height ensures it provides impressive presence in containers where its spectacular colour creates dramatic compact elegance.
Container Cultivation
The very compact neat habit makes 'Festival' excellently suited to container cultivation including patio pots, decorative planters, and celebration containers. The rose responds well to container growing where the bushy growth can create maximum flowering impact and architectural beauty. Provide adequate drainage with quality compost suitable for roses, allowing the compact habit to develop effectively. Regular feeding and watering during the growing season helps maintain optimal flowering coverage across the available container space, maximising the spectacular display and patio integration whilst celebrating the award-winning heritage.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Festival' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous compact displays and outstanding performance. Spring brings the emergence of handsome dark green holly-like foliage and strong new bushy growth, building anticipation for the main spectacular flowering display. The magnificent scarlet-red blooms from summer through autumn provide months of compact colour drama that maintains its celebration throughout the season, creating consistent spectacular impact. The attractive holly-like foliage remains healthy throughout the season with good disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the abundant flower displays, whilst the neat bushy structure provides attractive architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Festival' features light pleasant fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the celebratory garden experience. The gentle scent adds aromatic appeal to patio spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for container positions where both visual compact beauty and gentle aromatic interest are desired for celebration occasions. The light fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where scent contributes to the patio garden experience, particularly near seating areas and entertaining spaces where the celebration theme creates lasting festive impressions.
Companion Planting
The rich scarlet-red colouring with silver flecking of 'Festival' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and dramatic colour schemes. The spectacular colour works beautifully with plants that complement the red tones, including silver and grey foliage that echoes the silver flecking, whilst neutral backdrop plants provide excellent support that allows the dramatic colour to shine. White and cream flowers provide elegant displays that highlight the spectacular colour combination, whilst complementary celebration plants and festive perennials can create joyful combinations throughout the growing season that celebrate special occasions.
Award-Winning Heritage
The excellent compact qualities make 'Festival' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to integrate award-winning beauty into celebration-themed gardens and spectacular displays. The neat bushy habit, abundant large blooms with dramatic colour and silver flecking, and light fragrance create outstanding displays that provide lasting celebration significance whilst maintaining the prestigious heritage of being Rose of the Year 1994. The reliable compact growth ensures impressive coverage whilst maintaining perfect proportions, making it ideal for both celebration beauty and award-winning garden displays that provide spectacular statements for special occasions and festive celebrations with excellent performance.
Patio Garden Appeal
'Festival' represents quality award-winning patio rose breeding that combines dramatic colour celebration with reliable compact performance, making it an excellent choice for patio gardeners seeking distinctive roses with prestigious characteristics. The scarlet-red colouring with silver flecking offers exceptional visual impact whilst maintaining classic patio rose appeal and performance, making it particularly suitable for contemporary patio designs where dramatic colour statements and celebration themes are important considerations.
Contemporary Celebration
'Festival' carries special significance as a spectacularly coloured award-winning patio garden rose, making it particularly valuable for gardeners seeking dramatic compact impact and celebration-themed displays. The magnificent scarlet-red colour with distinctive silver flecking combined with light fragrance makes it suitable for gardens that require ongoing celebratory seasonal interest, whilst the reliable compact performance ensures lasting beauty that continues to provide spectacular displays throughout the growing season with consistent colour drama whilst celebrating its Rose of the Year heritage.
Prestigious Recognition
'Festival' was honoured as Rose of the Year 1994, giving this variety particular prestige for gardeners seeking award-winning quality and proven garden performance. The variety's spectacular appearance with its distinctive silver-flecked scarlet blooms and dependable growth habit have made it popular among gardeners who appreciate roses that combine visual impact with prestigious recognition and reliable garden excellence, making it suitable for celebration gardens and special commemorative plantings.
Why Choose 'Festival'?
Rose 'Festival' represents the perfect combination of spectacular award-winning beauty, dramatic colour celebration, and outstanding patio performance. The abundant large blooms with their magnificent scarlet-red and silver flecking combination and light fragrance provide exceptional displays from summer through autumn, whilst the very compact neat growth and excellent hardiness ensure dependable performance with standard maintenance. Whether grown for celebration-themed displays, spectacular patio features, container cultivation, or simply for its award-winning beauty and reliable compact nature, this outstanding patio rose offers distinctive value that combines dramatic appeal with prestigious heritage, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates garden festivity and horticultural excellence with compact colour drama that enhances any garden setting where celebration, reliability, and spectacular compact 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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