Rose 'Fond Farewell'
Heritage Floribunda with Stunning Peach and Copper Blooms
Rose 'Fond Farewell' stands as a remarkable tribute to rose breeding excellence, created to celebrate the retirement of Colin Dickson from the legendary Dickson breeding dynasty that has been producing exceptional roses since the mid-19th century. This exceptional floribunda produces abundant masses of fragrant double blooms in rich copper, peach, and apricot tones that create warm and sophisticated garden displays throughout the season. With its compact growth habit, excellent disease resistance, continuous flowering performance, and heritage breeding credentials, 'Fond Farewell' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking both extraordinary beauty and reliable, easy-care characteristics.
Headlines
- Type: Floribunda bush rose
- Eventual Height: 90cm
- Eventual Spread: 75cm
- Flowering: June to October
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy, well-balanced
- Colour: Rich copper, peach, and apricot tones
- Form: Double blooms in abundant clusters
- Size: Large, well-formed flowers
- Petals: Double form with substantial petal count
- Fragrance: Well-perfumed with lovely fragrance
Spectacular Flowers
The defining beauty of 'Fond Farewell' lies in its stunning masses of rich copper and peach coloured blooms that create warm and inviting garden displays throughout the growing season. These magnificent double flowers showcase rich apricot, copper, and peach tones that blend harmoniously to create a colour combination that is both distinctive and sophisticated in garden settings.
The large, well-formed blooms are borne in abundant clusters typical of the finest floribunda varieties, with each flower displaying the perfect proportions and substance that reflect the exceptional breeding heritage of the Dickson dynasty. The warm copper-peach colouration provides exceptional garden impact whilst maintaining the refined elegance that makes this variety truly special.
Delightful Fragrance
'Fond Farewell' offers gardeners the exceptional pleasure of well-perfumed blooms with a lovely fragrance that adds another dimension of charm to its already impressive garden presence. This delightful scent enhances the warm copper and peach tones, making it perfect for planting near seating areas, pathways, or windows where the fragrance can be fully appreciated.
Outstanding Garden Performance
This superb rose demonstrates exceptional garden performance through its compact, bushy growth habit and excellent health characteristics. The variety exhibits robust, vigorous growth with medium green glossy foliage that provides an attractive backdrop to the spectacular copper-peach blooms and maintains excellent garden structure throughout the season.
'Fond Farewell' boasts excellent disease resistance and hardiness, making it suitable for gardeners of all skill levels who want abundant blooms with reliable performance. The healthy constitution and good disease resistance ensure dependable results year after year, whilst the compact growth habit makes it perfect for smaller gardens and container cultivation.
Continuous Flowering Performance
As a repeat-flowering floribunda, 'Fond Farewell' delivers continuous blooms throughout the summer months, ensuring extended periods of spectacular garden colour and fragrance. The variety produces copious flowers throughout the growing season, with reliable repeat flowering that maintains consistent garden impact from early summer through to autumn.
This extended flowering performance means gardeners can enjoy the beautiful copper-peach blooms and lovely fragrance for the maximum possible time, making it excellent value for garden space and providing reliable seasonal colour that enhances garden displays throughout the growing season.
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 60cm
- Care: Easy care requirements with minimal intervention needed
- Winter Care: Hardy variety with good cold tolerance
The compact size and excellent disease resistance make this variety particularly suitable for container growing, making it perfect for patios, small gardens, or anywhere space is limited whilst still delivering exceptional garden performance.
Garden Uses
'Fond Farewell' offers exceptional versatility for various garden applications:
- Container Gardens: Ideal for pots and containers due to compact size
- Mixed Borders: Provides warm colour and reliable structure in perennial plantings
- Rose Gardens: Outstanding for rose collections requiring heritage varieties
- Cut Flower Gardens: Excellent for fragrant flower arrangements
- Small Gardens: Perfect where space is limited but impact is desired
- Patio Gardens: Ideal for courtyard and patio displays
- Memorial Gardens: Meaningful choice for commemorative plantings
- Gift Gardens: Perfect variety for planting as a retirement or farewell gift
Heritage Breeding Excellence
'Fond Farewell' carries the distinguished heritage of the Dickson breeding dynasty, whose family has been involved in growing and breeding exceptional roses since the mid-19th century. This rose was specifically bred in Ireland to celebrate the retirement of Colin Dickson, representing the culmination of generations of rose breeding expertise and excellence.
The prestigious breeding background from one of the world's most respected rose breeding families ensures both quality and reliability, making it a trusted choice for discerning gardeners who appreciate roses with proven heritage and exceptional breeding credentials.
Perfect for Cutting
The strong stems, large well-formed blooms, and lovely fragrance make 'Fond Farewell' outstanding for cut flower arrangements. The copper-peach blooms create sophisticated arrangements that provide both beautiful warm colour and delightful fragrance, perfect for indoor enjoyment and special occasions throughout the flowering season.
Companion Planting
The warm copper, peach, and apricot 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 medium green glossy foliage provides excellent structure and seasonal interest as a backdrop to other plants.
Care and Maintenance
'Fond Farewell' exemplifies easy-care gardening with its excellent disease resistance and hardy constitution. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering throughout the season, whilst annual feeding maintains optimal performance and abundant bloom production.
The compact, manageable size makes pruning and maintenance straightforward, whilst the vigorous growth habit ensures quick recovery and abundant new growth each season. The excellent health characteristics mean minimal intervention is required.
Why Choose 'Fond Farewell'?
Rose 'Fond Farewell' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a heritage rose that combines distinctive copper-peach beauty with exceptional reliability and meaningful breeding history. Its heritage Dickson breeding, lovely fragrance, compact growth habit, and excellent disease resistance make it both a stunning garden feature and practical growing choice.
Whether you're creating warm colour schemes in containers, seeking meaningful roses for memorial or retirement gardens, wanting a variety suitable for small spaces, or looking for roses with distinguished heritage and proven performance, 'Fond Farewell' delivers outstanding results. Its exceptional breeding credentials, proven garden reliability, and beautiful copper-peach blooms make it an essential choice for gardeners who appreciate roses that combine horticultural excellence with meaningful heritage 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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