Rose 'Fragrant Cloud' (Hybrid Tea) – The Hall of Fame Winner with Legendary Coral-Orange Perfume
Rose 'Fragrant Cloud' stands as one of the most celebrated and beloved hybrid tea roses in the world, earning its legendary status as a Rose Hall of Fame inductee in 1981 and recognition as one of the most popular roses of the 20th century. This exceptional variety produces magnificent giant coral-orange blooms measuring up to 6 inches across with an incredibly powerful perfume that will fill entire rooms when brought indoors. With its award-winning credentials, spectacular size, intensely luxuriant fragrance, and prestigious Tantau breeding heritage, 'Fragrant Cloud' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking both extraordinary beauty and world-renowned excellence.
Headlines
- Type: Hybrid Tea bush rose
- Eventual Height: 1.0m
- Eventual Spread: 75cm
- Flowering: June to November
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Medium-tall, upright, vigorous
- Colour: Deep coral-orange to coral-red
- Form: Very large, high-centred, full blooms
- Size: Giant flowers up to 6 inches (15cm) across
- Petals: Full double form with 26-40 petals
- Fragrance: Incredibly powerful perfume with heady, luxuriant scent
Spectacular Flowers
The defining beauty of 'Fragrant Cloud' lies in its absolutely magnificent giant coral-orange blooms that create spectacular garden displays with unmatched presence and drama. These exceptional flowers showcase deep coral-red to orange-red tones with coral-washed petals that are intensely plush and luxuriant, creating blooms of extraordinary substance and beauty.
The very large flowers measure up to 6 inches across with high-centred, full bloom form featuring 26-40 petals arranged in perfect spiralling symmetry. Each bloom exemplifies the finest characteristics of hybrid tea excellence, with shapely, well-formed flowers that stand out magnificently against the splendid dark green glossy foliage.
Exquisite Fragrance
'Fragrant Cloud' offers gardeners the most exceptional pleasure of an incredibly powerful perfume that is truly legendary in the rose world. This heady, luxuriant scent is described as a delightful mix of citrus, damask, fruity, and spice fragrance that is so intense it will knock your socks off and fill entire rooms with heavenly scent for days when used as cut flowers.
Outstanding Garden Performance
This superb rose demonstrates exceptional garden performance through its vigorous, upright growth habit and outstanding health characteristics. The variety exhibits fantastic garden performance with vigorous growth and healthy dark green glossy foliage that provides a stunning backdrop to the spectacular coral-orange blooms whilst maintaining excellent structure throughout the season.
'Fragrant Cloud' boasts extremely disease-resistant foliage that persists excellently throughout the season, making it suitable for gardeners of all skill levels who want world-class performance with reliable results. The hardy, vigorous constitution ensures dependable garden excellence year after year.
Continuous Flowering Performance
As a continual blooming hybrid tea, 'Fragrant Cloud' delivers prolific displays in flushes from spring to autumn, ensuring months of spectacular coral-orange colour and legendary fragrance. The variety produces magnificent blooms mostly solitary on short stems or in small clusters throughout the growing season, with reliable repeat flowering that maintains consistent garden impact.
This extended flowering performance means gardeners can enjoy the giant coral-orange blooms and incredibly powerful perfume for the maximum possible time, making it exceptional value for garden space and providing reliable seasonal displays of world-renowned excellence.
Growing Requirements
- Position: Full sun for best flowering, but tolerates other aspects
- Soil: Well-drained, fertile soil
- Spacing: Allow adequate space for mature spread of 90-120cm
- Care: Benefits from extra fertiliser application for optimal stem length
- Winter Care: Hardy variety with excellent weather tolerance
The robust constitution and disease resistance make this variety suitable for various garden positions, whilst the spectacular size and fragrance make it particularly valuable for cutting gardens and prominent display areas.
Garden Uses
'Fragrant Cloud' offers exceptional versatility for various garden applications:
- Mixed Borders: Provides spectacular colour and legendary fragrance
- Rose Gardens: Essential for collections of world-renowned varieties
- Cut Flower Gardens: Outstanding for filling rooms with heavenly scent
- Container Gardens: Excellent for large containers and patio displays
- Exhibition Gardens: Perfect for show-quality displays
- Fragrance Gardens: Indispensable for scent-focused plantings
- Heritage Gardens: Essential for collections of historic significance
- Gift Gardens: Meaningful choice for rose enthusiasts
Rose Hall of Fame Excellence
'Fragrant Cloud' has earned the most prestigious recognition in the international rose world as a Rose Hall of Fame inductee in 1981, voted by the World Federation of Rose Societies. This coveted honour confirms its exceptional combination of flower quality, fragrance, garden performance, and overall excellence that has made it one of the world's favourite roses.
The Hall of Fame status guarantees that this variety represents the pinnacle of rose breeding achievement, recognised globally for qualities that set it apart as truly exceptional and enduringly popular across decades.
Prestigious Breeding Heritage
'Fragrant Cloud' carries the distinguished heritage of Tantau breeding from Germany (variety code: TANellis), representing one of the most significant achievements in modern rose breeding. This tetraploid variety is the offspring of Prima Ballerina and Montezuma, inheriting the finest characteristics from both parents to create a rose of unparalleled excellence.
The prestigious Tantau breeding background and exceptional genetic heritage ensure both quality and reliability, making it a treasured choice for gardeners who appreciate roses with proven international recognition and outstanding breeding credentials.
Perfect for Cutting
The strong stems and giant well-formed blooms with incredibly powerful perfume make 'Fragrant Cloud' absolutely outstanding for cut flower arrangements. The spectacular coral-orange blooms create magnificent arrangements that fill entire rooms with heavenly scent for days, making them perfect for special occasions and indoor enjoyment. The exhibition-quality blooms ensure arrangements of exceptional beauty and presence.
Companion Planting
The deep coral-orange blooms work beautifully with complementary colours such as cream, white, soft yellow, or bronze foliage that enhance the warm tones, whilst deep purple or blue companions create striking contrasts. The dark green glossy foliage provides excellent structure and seasonal interest as a backdrop to other plants.
Care and Maintenance
'Fragrant Cloud' benefits from regular care including adequate feeding (extra fertiliser applications recommended) and watering to maintain optimal performance and flower size. The extremely disease-resistant foliage and hardy constitution ensure reliable performance with reasonable care, whilst the vigorous growth habit responds well to proper cultivation.
Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering throughout the season, whilst the upright growth makes pruning straightforward. The exceptional disease resistance means minimal intervention is required for pest and disease management.
Why Choose 'Fragrant Cloud'?
Rose 'Fragrant Cloud' represents the ultimate choice for gardeners seeking a world-renowned hybrid tea rose that combines giant coral-orange beauty with legendary fragrance and international acclaim. Its Rose Hall of Fame status, incredibly powerful perfume, prestigious Tantau breeding, and recognition as one of the most popular roses of the 20th century make it both a stunning garden feature and horticultural treasure.
Whether you're creating spectacular displays in borders, seeking world-class roses for cutting gardens, wanting varieties with international recognition, looking for roses with legendary fragrance, or desiring roses that provide months of giant blooms and heavenly scent, 'Fragrant Cloud' delivers outstanding results. Its Hall of Fame excellence, proven global popularity, and magnificent coral-orange blooms make it an essential choice for gardeners who appreciate roses that represent the pinnacle of breeding achievement and distinctive beauty that provides spectacular colour and legendary fragrance 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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