Rose 'Grandpa Dickson' - Hybrid Tea Rose
A distinguished award-winning hybrid tea rose producing magnificent large, fully double blooms in pure lemon yellow with subtle pink-tinged buds, complemented by glossy light green foliage, compact bushy growth, and excellent repeat flowering, making it perfect for formal gardens, cutting displays, and container cultivation.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 80cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Pure lemon yellow with pink-tinged buds
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy and upright
- Flower Type: Large, fully double blooms
- Fragrance: Light, pleasant fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Grandpa Dickson' represents one of the most celebrated achievements in yellow hybrid tea rose breeding, created by the renowned Dickson family and awarded the prestigious Gold Medal by the Royal National Rose Society for its exceptional garden performance. This distinguished variety produces magnificent large, fully double blooms in pure lemon yellow that open from charming pink-tinged buds, creating delightful colour interest throughout the flowering cycle. Named to honour the Dickson rose breeding dynasty, this award-winning rose combines the classic elegance of traditional hybrid tea form with reliable garden performance and compact dimensions perfect for contemporary gardens. With its glossy light green foliage that provides excellent backdrop contrast, bushy upright growth habit, and continuous flowering from June through September, 'Grandpa Dickson' delivers outstanding garden excellence with manageable proportions, making it ideal for formal displays, cutting gardens, container cultivation, and anywhere consistent yellow flowering with distinguished heritage is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Grandpa Dickson' lies in its magnificent large, fully double blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional colour purity and substance. Each flower displays classic high-centred form with substantial petal count that creates elegant displays worthy of exhibition quality, whilst the pure lemon yellow colouring provides vibrant garden impact without fading. The unique colour characteristic begins with charming pink-tinged buds that develop into pure lemon yellow when fully open, creating evolving colour interest throughout the bloom cycle that adds garden charm and visual appeal. The flowers are produced continuously on short, upright growth that provides excellent stem strength for cutting and display purposes. The light, pleasant fragrance adds aromatic dimension that complements the spectacular visual display, whilst the exceptional garden performance that earned this rose its prestigious Gold Medal recognition ensures reliable beauty throughout the growing season.
Growth Characteristics
This hybrid tea rose displays compact, bushy growth with upright habit, reaching 80cm in height with a neat spread of 60cm, creating manageable proportions perfect for smaller gardens and diverse applications. The medium-sized rose maintains excellent bushy habit that produces abundant glossy light green foliage, creating attractive garden presence whilst remaining perfectly proportioned for contemporary garden settings. The short, upright growth pattern ensures excellent flower presentation and stem strength, making this variety particularly suitable for cutting and formal garden applications where reliable performance and manageable size are important. The healthy foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular yellow blooms whilst maintaining excellent garden appeal.
Flowering Performance
From June through to September, 'Grandpa Dickson' delivers exceptional flowering displays with continuous repeat blooming that provides reliable garden colour throughout the extended summer season. The plant produces large, lemon yellow blooms continuously on short, upright stems, creating substantial visual impact with consistent performance that ensures ongoing garden interest. The individual blooms develop slowly from charming pink-tinged buds, allowing gardeners to appreciate the colour evolution and perfect form, whilst the substantial size and excellent substance ensure each flower creates significant garden presence. The repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous displays throughout the season, with the large blooms providing spectacular focal points that brighten garden spaces with their pure yellow colour and pleasant fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Grandpa Dickson' thrives in full sun with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance. The rose adapts well to various well-drained soil types and responds excellently to an open, bright aspect where the pure yellow colour can be fully appreciated. For best results, plant in sunny positions with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the vigorous flowering and healthy foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard rose care practices, whilst the manageable size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from borders to containers.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
The variety shows reliable garden health with the glossy light green foliage remaining attractive throughout the growing season. Attention to standard rose care practices including good air circulation, appropriate spacing, and preventive treatments helps maintain optimal health and supports the spectacular flowering displays. The robust constitution typical of well-bred hybrid tea roses means that with proper care and positioning, this variety provides reliable long-term garden performance with manageable maintenance requirements.
Care and Maintenance
'Grandpa Dickson' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and colour purity. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular deep watering during dry periods to support the continuous flowering and healthy foliage development. Mulch with well-rotted organic matter in late winter or early spring to conserve moisture and improve soil structure. Annual pruning in late winter maintains the compact bushy shape and promotes vigorous new growth for optimal flowering performance. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display throughout the extended season.
Garden Applications
'Grandpa Dickson' excels in formal rose gardens and mixed borders where its award-winning performance and pure yellow colour can be fully appreciated. The compact bushy habit makes it ideal for front-of-border plantings, formal displays, and structured garden designs where reliable performance and manageable size are essential. Perfect for cutting gardens, this rose provides outstanding blooms with strong stems and excellent vase life that enhance floral arrangements with pure yellow colour and pleasant fragrance. The manageable dimensions make it particularly suitable for smaller gardens whilst still delivering substantial visual impact through its continuous flowering displays and distinguished garden presence.
Container Growing
The compact growth habit and manageable size make 'Grandpa Dickson' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and small gardens. The rose thrives in large containers where its pure yellow blooms can create cheerful focal points and elegant displays, making it perfect for terraces and seating areas where bright colour enhances the garden experience. Choose containers at least 50cm wide and deep with excellent drainage, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than ground-planted roses, but the award-winning performance and spectacular colour make this worthwhile for gardens with limited space.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Grandpa Dickson' provides exceptional seasonal interest with consistent colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of glossy light green foliage and the first charming pink-tinged buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular blooms from June through September provide months of pure lemon yellow colour that maintains vibrancy throughout the season, creating consistent garden cheer and brightness. The attractive foliage remains healthy throughout the season, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the compact branching structure provides neat architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Grandpa Dickson' features light, pleasant fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the overall garden experience. The subtle fragrance adds aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and gentle aromatic interest are desired. The pleasant scent enhances garden atmosphere without overwhelming, making this variety suitable for areas where fragrance contributes to the sensory garden experience whilst allowing the pure yellow colour to remain the primary attraction.
Companion Planting
The pure lemon yellow colouring of 'Grandpa Dickson' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The bright yellow works beautifully with purple and blue flowers such as lavender and delphiniums for striking contrast, whilst white flowers provide elegant harmony that highlights both the rose and companion plants. The compact habit makes it suitable for planting with perennials and herbs that enhance the garden's colour layers, whilst the glossy foliage complements plants with silver or grey foliage for sophisticated displays throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Innovation
'Grandpa Dickson' represents the exceptional breeding excellence of the renowned Dickson family, introduced in 1966 and awarded the prestigious Gold Medal by the Royal National Rose Society for its outstanding characteristics. This heritage connection to one of the world's most celebrated rose breeding dynasties adds significant historical interest whilst providing proven garden performance that has stood the test of time. The variety demonstrates classic breeding techniques that successfully integrated pure colour with reliable garden performance, creating a rose with lasting appeal that continues to be valued by contemporary gardeners seeking distinguished yellow flowering excellence.
Award-Winning Excellence
One of the most valued features of 'Grandpa Dickson' is its prestigious Gold Medal status from the Royal National Rose Society, recognising exceptional garden performance, colour purity, and overall excellence. This recognition acknowledges the variety's outstanding combination of beauty, reliability, and garden performance that sets it apart from ordinary roses. The award highlights the successful integration of classic hybrid tea elegance with practical garden excellence that makes this rose valuable for contemporary gardening applications.
Dickson Dynasty Heritage
The naming of this rose to honour the Dickson rose breeding dynasty adds significant interest and prestige to this exceptional variety. The connection to the family responsible for many of today's most celebrated roses, combined with the award-winning garden performance, makes this rose particularly appealing to gardeners who appreciate both heritage significance and proven garden excellence.
Why Choose 'Grandpa Dickson'?
Rose 'Grandpa Dickson' represents the perfect combination of distinguished heritage, award-winning performance, and pure yellow excellence. The large, fully double blooms in pure lemon yellow with charming pink-tinged buds provide continuous displays from June through September, whilst the compact bushy growth and glossy foliage ensure reliable performance with manageable dimensions. Whether grown for its prestigious Gold Medal recognition, distinguished Dickson heritage, excellent cut flower qualities, or pure colour beauty, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers exceptional value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and consistent yellow flowering that brings brightness, elegance, and celebrated garden excellence to any contemporary garden setting.
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.
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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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