Rose 'Fred Loads' - Shrub Rose
A magnificent large shrub rose that transforms garden spaces with its spectacular abundance of brilliant orange-vermilion blooms, delightful musk fragrance, and exceptional repeat flowering performance throughout the season, perfectly complemented by large dark green leathery foliage and vigorous upright growth habit that makes it ideal for hedging, borders, screens, and dramatic landscape displays with award-winning garden excellence.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous large shrub rose
- Eventual Height: 1.8 metres
- Eventual Spread: 1.25 metre
- Flowering Period: Summer to autumn continuously
- Flower Colour: Intense orange to vermilion-red
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Upright, loosely branched, vigorous growth
- Flower Type: Semi-double blooms in very large clusters
- Fragrance: Light musk fragrance with sweet undertones
Overview
Rose 'Fred Loads' embodies dramatic garden beauty, producing continuous displays of spectacular orange-vermilion blooms that create magnificent colour intensity throughout the extended growing season. This outstanding award-winning shrub variety transforms garden spaces with its abundantly flowering upright habit that showcases one of the most striking colour palettes in shrub roses, where individual semi-double blooms feature intense orange to vermilion-red surfaces arranged in very large clusters of up to 30 flowers that create dazzling visual impact in any garden setting. The dramatic colour palette makes this rose particularly impressive for contemporary landscape designs and bold garden statements, representing energy, vitality, and garden distinction. The flowers emerge continuously from summer through autumn, creating sustained displays that maintain substantial proportions with consistent spectacular appeal. The light musk fragrance with sweet undertones enhances the magnificent visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that complement both traditional garden borders and modern landscape designs with bold beauty and dependable performance, whilst celebrating its prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Fred Loads' lies in its abundant very large clusters of blooms that showcase classic semi-double formation with dramatic colour intensity and impressive upright presence. Each flower displays beautifully formed structure with semi-double petals featuring intense orange to vermilion-red surfaces arranged in magnificent very large clusters, creating displays of exceptional beauty and bold charm. The dramatic colour palette provides spectacular displays that maintain their impact throughout the flowering season, creating striking visual appeal that symbolises energy and garden drama. The flowers are produced continuously with exceptional repeat flowering habit, emerging in impressive large clusters that add magnificent abundance to the garden display. The light musk fragrance with sweet undertones complements the spectacular visual appeal, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both landscape applications and everyday garden enjoyment with dramatic colour sophistication and delightful aromatic charm.
Growth Characteristics
The upright loosely branched habit provides excellent vigorous growth for impressive landscape displays, making this variety particularly valuable for hedging, screening, and architectural applications where substantial upright growth and abundant flowering coverage are essential. The large dark green leathery foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the orange-vermilion bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent vigour and contemporary appeal. The vigorous upright growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial landscape impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from border hedging to dramatic features, with the substantial proportions making it suitable for both established gardens and prominent landscape positions where its dramatic beauty can be fully appreciated whilst providing excellent coverage and screening.
Flowering Performance
From summer through to autumn, 'Fred Loads' delivers exceptional flowering displays with outstanding continuous repeat blooming that maintains reliability throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces abundant very large clusters of blooms consistently, creating impressive upright visual impact with exceptional performance that ensures ongoing garden drama. The individual blooms develop with classic semi-double formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect intense orange-vermilion colour richness and bold tonal quality, whilst the semi-double flower form ensures spectacular presence for extended periods. The prolific flowering nature ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the ongoing abundant clusters providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their dramatic colour palette and musk fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Fred Loads' thrives in full sun 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 including poor soils and performs excellently in borders, hedging applications, and landscape features where the orange-vermilion 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 upright growth and vigorous foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard shrub rose care practices, whilst the vigorous upright ability makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from hedging and borders to landscape screens where its dramatic qualities and award-winning heritage can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Fred Loads' demonstrates excellent hardiness characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with reasonable disease resistance. The variety shows strong resistance to seasonal variations and weather conditions, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable dramatic shrub plantings. The large dark green leathery foliage remains attractive and vigorous throughout the season, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking dependable substantial 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 whilst tolerating challenging conditions.
Care and Maintenance
'Fred Loads' requires standard shrub rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and upright development. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular watering during dry periods to support the healthy vigorous growth and abundant flower production. The reasonable disease resistance means this variety benefits from standard care practices, making it ideal for gardeners seeking reliable landscape plantings with dramatic impact. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular colour display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the upright structure and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and landscape coverage.
Garden Applications
'Fred Loads' excels in landscape displays and dramatic garden features where its award-winning beauty and substantial habit can be fully appreciated. The intense orange-vermilion combination makes it ideal for contemporary border displays, hedging applications, and bold landscape schemes where dramatic colour impact and dependable vigorous performance are essential. Perfect for mixed borders, informal hedging, screening applications, and wildlife gardens, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with good stems and excellent vase life that enhance floral arrangements with dramatic colour intensity for special occasions and bold displays. The vigorous upright growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating stunning landscape focal points and substantial hedging displays, whilst the impressive proportions ensure it provides commanding presence in landscape positions where its dramatic colour creates spectacular garden impact.
Hedging and Screening Use
The upright loosely branched habit makes 'Fred Loads' excellently suited to hedging applications including informal borders, landscape screening, and substantial garden displays. The rose responds well to landscape planting where the vigorous upright growth can create maximum flowering impact and architectural beauty. Provide adequate spacing for the substantial habit to develop effectively, allowing the upright growth to establish comprehensive coverage. Regular maintenance during the growing season helps maintain optimal flowering coverage across the available landscape space, maximising the dramatic display and garden integration whilst celebrating the award-winning heritage and substantial garden presence.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Fred Loads' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous upright displays and outstanding performance. Spring brings the emergence of large dark green leathery foliage and strong new upright growth, building anticipation for the main spectacular flowering display. The magnificent orange-vermilion blooms from summer through autumn provide months of upright colour drama that maintains its boldness throughout the season, creating consistent spectacular impact. The attractive leathery foliage remains healthy throughout the season, providing perfect backdrop for the abundant flower displays, whilst the substantial upright structure provides attractive landscape interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Fred Loads' features light musk fragrance with sweet undertones that complements the dramatic visual display and enhances the landscape garden experience. The delightful scent adds aromatic appeal to garden spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for border positions where both visual dramatic beauty and pleasant aromatic interest are desired for landscape occasions. The musk fragrance with sweet undertones enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where scent contributes to the landscape garden experience, particularly near pathways and outdoor areas where the dramatic beauty creates lasting spectacular impressions.
Companion Planting
The intense orange-vermilion colouring of 'Fred Loads' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and bold colour schemes. The dramatic colour works beautifully with plants that complement the orange-red tones, including bronze and copper foliage that creates harmonious displays, whilst neutral backdrop plants provide excellent support that allows the bold colour to shine. Yellow and cream flowers provide complementary displays that highlight the dramatic colour combination, whilst substantial landscape plants and hardy perennials can create striking combinations throughout the growing season that celebrate garden drama and landscape beauty.
Landscape Integration
The excellent vigorous upright qualities make 'Fred Loads' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to integrate award-winning beauty into substantial landscape features and contemporary garden designs. The upright loosely branched habit, abundant very large clusters with spectacular colour, and musk fragrance create outstanding displays that provide lasting landscape significance whilst maintaining the excellence of its RHS Award of Garden Merit heritage. The reliable vigorous growth ensures impressive coverage whilst maintaining natural proportions, making it ideal for both landscape beauty and dramatic garden displays that provide bold statements for contemporary gardens and substantial landscape celebrations with excellent performance.
Modern Shrub Appeal
'Fred Loads' represents quality modern shrub rose breeding that combines dramatic colour intensity with reliable vigorous performance, making it an excellent choice for landscape gardeners seeking distinctive roses with substantial characteristics. The orange-vermilion colouring offers exceptional visual impact whilst maintaining classic shrub rose appeal and performance, making it particularly suitable for contemporary landscape designs where bold colour statements and vigorous growth are important considerations.
Contemporary Landscape
'Fred Loads' carries special significance as a dramatically coloured award-winning shrub garden rose, making it particularly valuable for gardeners seeking bold substantial impact and landscape-themed displays. The magnificent intense orange-vermilion colour combined with musk fragrance makes it suitable for gardens that require ongoing dramatic seasonal interest, whilst the reliable vigorous performance ensures lasting beauty that continues to provide spectacular displays throughout the growing season with consistent colour boldness whilst celebrating its prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit.
Award-Winning Heritage
'Fred Loads' has earned the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit, giving this variety particular recognition for gardeners seeking proven excellence and reliable garden performance. The variety's dramatic appearance with its intense orange-vermilion blooms in very large clusters and dependable vigorous habit have made it popular among gardeners who appreciate roses that combine visual impact with prestigious recognition and landscape reliability, making it suitable for quality landscape gardens and award-winning design plantings.
Why Choose 'Fred Loads'?
Rose 'Fred Loads' represents the perfect combination of dramatic award-winning beauty, bold colour intensity, and outstanding shrub performance. The abundant very large clusters with their magnificent orange-vermilion combination and musk fragrance provide exceptional displays from summer through autumn, whilst the vigorous upright growth and excellent hardiness ensure dependable performance with standard maintenance. Whether grown for landscape displays, dramatic hedging features, screening applications, or simply for its award-winning beauty and reliable vigorous nature, this outstanding shrub rose offers distinctive value that combines dramatic appeal with prestigious heritage, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates garden boldness and landscape sophistication with substantial colour drama that enhances any garden setting where impact, reliability, and dramatic vigorous presence 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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