Rose 'Geraldine' - Shrub Rose
A distinguished floribunda rose that brings classic elegance to any garden space with its abundant displays of exquisite deep rose-pink blooms, rich damask fragrance, and exceptional flowering performance throughout the season, perfectly complemented by dark glossy green foliage and robust upright growth that makes it ideal for borders, mass plantings, hedging, and sophisticated garden displays where traditional beauty creates enduring garden distinction.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 50cm
- Eventual Spread: 50cm
- Flowering Period: May to September
- Flower Colour: Deep rose-pink with velvety texture
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Robust, upright, with well-branched habit
- Flower Type: Double blooms in generous trusses
- Fragrance: Rich damask fragrance with spicy notes
Overview
Rose 'Geraldine' exemplifies traditional garden excellence, producing continuous displays of spectacular deep rose-pink blooms that create distinguished beauty throughout the extended growing season. This outstanding variety transforms garden spaces with its perfectly proportioned robust growth that showcases abundant trusses of double blooms, where individual flowers feature beautiful deep rose-pink petals with luxurious velvety texture in magnificent arrangements that create sophisticated visual presence in any garden setting. The rich colour palette makes this rose particularly impressive for traditional English gardens and classic border displays, representing heritage, distinction, and garden refinement. The flowers emerge in repeated displays throughout the season with excellent repeat flowering, creating sustained displays that reach perfect proportions with consistent appealing beauty. The rich damask fragrance enhances the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that complement both formal border displays and traditional landscape designs with classic beauty and reliable robust performance.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Geraldine' lies in its abundant double blooms that showcase traditional formation with spectacular rose-pink elegance and perfect robust presence. Each flower displays beautifully formed structure with double petals featuring deep rose-pink colour with luxurious velvety texture in magnificent truss arrangements, creating displays of exceptional beauty and classic charm. The rich rose-pink colour provides enchanting displays that maintain their deep sophistication throughout the flowering season, creating spectacular visual richness that symbolises tradition and garden heritage. The flowers are produced in generous trusses with excellent repeat flowering characteristics, emerging continuously throughout the summer that add magnificent anticipation to the garden display. The rich damask fragrance with spicy notes complements the deep visual appeal, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both border applications and garden enjoyment with traditional colour sophistication and luxurious aromatic charm.
Growth Characteristics
The robust upright growth provides excellent proportioned structure for impressive border displays and garden features, making this variety particularly valuable for mixed borders, mass plantings, and garden applications where reliable performance and spectacular flowering coverage are essential. The dark glossy green foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the rose-pink bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent vigour and lustrous appeal. The well-branched upright growth habit ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial visual impact that fits perfectly into diverse garden settings, with the substantial size making it ideal for border cultivation and prominent garden positions where its distinguished beauty can be fully appreciated.
Flowering Performance
Throughout the summer to autumn, 'Geraldine' delivers exceptional flowering displays with excellent repeat blooming that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces abundant trusses of deep rose-pink blooms consistently, creating impressive visual impact with exceptional performance that ensures ongoing garden distinction. The individual double blooms develop with classic formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect rose-pink colour sophistication and velvety texture richness, whilst the generous truss size ensures impressive presence for extended periods throughout the substantial plant size. The free flowering nature with excellent repeat characteristics ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the ongoing rich blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their deep colour palette and rich damask fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Geraldine' 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 performance and colour development. The rose adapts excellently to border cultivation and performs brilliantly in mixed borders, rose beds, and garden spaces where the rose-pink colours can create maximum visual impact. For best results, plant in sunny to lightly shaded locations with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter or quality garden compost to support the healthy robust growth and dark glossy foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding during the growing season and responds exceptionally well to traditional cultivation practices, whilst the substantial size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from mixed borders to traditional rose gardens where its classic qualities and rose-pink colour intensity can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Geraldine' demonstrates excellent disease resistance characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with outstanding vigour in its substantial size. The variety shows excellent hardiness with good cold tolerance, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable border plantings. The dark glossy green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with excellent disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking dependable 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
'Geraldine' requires standard floribunda rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and robust development. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular watering during dry periods to support the healthy robust growth and abundant flower production. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention with standard care practices, making it ideal for gardeners seeking reliable plantings with distinguished impact. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular colour display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the robust structure and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Geraldine' excels in traditional border displays and distinguished garden features where its classic beauty and robust proportions can be fully appreciated. The rose-pink colour makes it ideal for heritage border displays, eye-catching garden features, and traditional landscapes where rich colour impact and reliable performance are essential. Perfect for mixed borders, rose beds, hedging, and formal garden displays, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers that enhance floral arrangements with classic colour for special occasions and traditional displays. The robust growth and excellent repeat flowering make it particularly suitable for creating stunning focal points in gardens and border collections, whilst the substantial size and distinguished nature ensure it provides impressive presence where its rich colour creates spectacular garden tradition.
Border Cultivation
The robust upright growth makes 'Geraldine' excellently suited to border cultivation in various garden situations and planting schemes. The rose thrives in well-prepared garden soil with good drainage and organic matter, responding well to regular feeding and consistent care where the robust growth can create maximum flowering impact. Plant at spacing of approximately 60cm apart for optimal development and air circulation, using quality garden compost and slow-release fertiliser. Regular border care during the growing season ensures optimal flowering coverage and healthy development, maximising the spectacular display and seasonal enjoyment.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Geraldine' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous displays and outstanding performance. Spring brings the emergence of dark glossy green foliage and strong new robust growth, building anticipation for the main spectacular flowering display. The magnificent rose-pink blooms from summer through autumn with excellent repeat flowering provide months of rich colour that maintains its distinguished appeal throughout the season, creating consistent classic impact. The attractive dark glossy green foliage remains healthy throughout the season with excellent disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the flower displays, whilst the robust upright structure provides attractive garden interest year-round.
Fragrance Profile
'Geraldine' features rich damask fragrance with spicy notes that will luxuriously enchant the senses, complementing the distinguished visual display and enhancing the garden experience. The damask perfume with spicy highlights adds classic aromatic appeal whilst making this rose particularly valuable for garden positions where both visual beauty and traditional fragrant interest are desired for sophisticated occasions. The rich damask fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where luxurious scent contributes to the traditional garden experience, particularly near seating areas and outdoor entertaining spaces where the perfume creates lasting distinguished impressions.
Companion Planting
The deep rose-pink colouring of 'Geraldine' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and classic colour schemes. The distinguished rose-pink colour works beautifully with plants that provide harmonising or contrasting tones, whilst silver and grey foliage plants provide excellent backdrop that allows the colour richness to shine. Cream and white flowers provide elegant harmonies that highlight the rose-pink blooms, whilst complementary border plants and traditional perennials can create stunning combinations throughout the growing season.
Garden Integration
The excellent robust qualities and distinguished nature make 'Geraldine' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to integrate classic beauty into border displays and traditional garden features. The upright robust growth, abundant double blooms with rich colour intensity, and luxurious damask fragrance create outstanding garden displays that provide lasting seasonal enhancement whilst maintaining the distinguished significance of the rose-pink colour drama. The reliable robust growth ensures impressive flowering impact whilst maintaining perfect proportions, making it ideal for garden beauty and traditional displays that provide classic statements for sophisticated garden areas with excellent performance.
Contemporary Appeal
'Geraldine' represents exceptional floribunda rose breeding that combines classic beauty with perfect robust proportions and contemporary appeal, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking distinctive roses with traditional characteristics. The rich rose-pink colour offers exceptional visual distinction whilst maintaining classic rose appeal and performance, making it particularly suitable for contemporary garden designs and modern border displays where sophisticated colour statements and reliable performance are important considerations.
Traditional Garden Value
'Geraldine' offers gardeners a distinguished variety that combines classic beauty with exceptional reliability and traditional appeal. The variety's sophisticated appearance and dependable robust growth habit have made it popular among gardeners who appreciate roses that combine visual distinction with reliable garden performance and suitability for border applications and formal spaces that need a touch of classic elegance.
Why Choose 'Geraldine'?
Rose 'Geraldine' represents the perfect combination of classic beauty, rich colour elegance, and outstanding reliability. The abundant trusses of double rose-pink blooms with their rich damask fragrance provide exceptional displays from summer through autumn with excellent repeat flowering, whilst the robust healthy growth and excellent disease resistance ensure dependable performance with standard maintenance requirements. Whether grown for distinguished border displays, traditional garden features, hedging, or simply for its classic beauty and reliable robust nature, this outstanding floribunda rose offers exceptional value that combines traditional appeal with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates heritage and garden tradition with robust distinction that enhances any garden setting where sophistication, reliability, and perfect classic 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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