Rose 'Happy Golden Wedding'
The Gold Standard Award Winning Anniversary Rose with Unfading Golden Splendour
Rose 'Happy Golden Wedding' stands as the ultimate anniversary rose, earning its prestigious reputation as a Gold Standard Award winner that celebrates love and commitment through its spectacular unfading golden yellow blooms. This exceptional floribunda produces abundant large clusters of shapely double flowers in brilliant golden yellow tones that maintain their vibrant colour throughout the season. With its award-winning credentials, excellent disease resistance, strong fragrance, and meaningful symbolism, 'Happy Golden Wedding' represents the perfect choice for commemorating special occasions whilst delivering exceptional garden beauty and reliable performance.
Headlines
- Type: Floribunda bush rose
- Eventual Height: 80cm
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering: July to September
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Short, bushy, compact, well-rounded
- Colour: Brilliant unfading golden yellow
- Form: Double, cupped blooms with golden stamens
- Size: Large flowers in substantial clusters
- Petals: Double form with lovely golden stamens in centres
- Fragrance: Rich, strong fragrance
Spectacular Flowers
The defining beauty of 'Happy Golden Wedding' lies in its magnificent unfading golden yellow blooms that create brilliant sunshine displays throughout the growing season. These spectacular double flowers showcase rich golden yellow tones that remain vibrant and unfading, ensuring consistent colour impact from the first flush through to autumn frosts.
The large, shapely blooms are perfectly cupped with lovely golden stamens visible in the centres, creating flowers of exceptional beauty and substance. Produced in large clusters, these golden treasures exemplify the quality and excellence that has made this variety a Gold Standard Award winner, with each bloom displaying the perfect proportions that characterise truly outstanding roses.
Exquisite Fragrance
'Happy Golden Wedding' offers gardeners the exceptional pleasure of a rich, strong fragrance that enhances its already impressive visual appeal. This delightful scent adds another dimension of charm to the garden experience, making it perfect for planting near seating areas, pathways, or windows where the fragrance can be fully appreciated and enjoyed throughout the flowering season.
Outstanding Garden Performance
This superb rose demonstrates exceptional garden performance through its compact, bushy growth habit and outstanding health characteristics. The variety exhibits strong, vigorous growth with semi-glossy, medium green foliage that provides an attractive backdrop to the spectacular golden blooms whilst maintaining excellent garden structure throughout the season.
'Happy Golden Wedding' boasts extremely disease-resistant foliage and excellent weather tolerance, making it suitable for gardeners of all skill levels who want reliable performance with minimal intervention. The healthy constitution and exceptional disease resistance ensure dependable results year after year, whilst the compact size makes it perfect for smaller gardens and container cultivation.
Continuous Flowering Performance
As a repeat-flowering floribunda, 'Happy Golden Wedding' delivers continuous blooms throughout the growing season, ensuring extended periods of spectacular golden colour and rich fragrance. The variety produces abundant clusters of flowers with excellent repeat flowering that maintains consistent garden impact from early summer through to autumn.
This extended flowering performance means gardeners can enjoy the brilliant golden blooms and strong fragrance for the maximum possible time, making it excellent value for garden space and providing reliable seasonal colour that brightens garden displays throughout the growing season.
Growing Requirements
- Position: Full sun for best flowering and colour development
- Soil: Well-drained, fertile soil - tolerant of poorer soils
- Spacing: Allow adequate space for mature spread of 60cm
- Care: Easy care requirements due to excellent disease resistance
- Winter Care: Hardy variety requiring minimal winter protection
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. The tolerance of poorer soils adds to its versatility.
Garden Uses
'Happy Golden Wedding' offers exceptional versatility for various garden applications:
- Anniversary Gardens: Perfect for commemorating golden wedding anniversaries
- Container Gardens: Ideal for pots and containers due to compact size
- Mixed Borders: Provides brilliant colour and reliable structure in perennial plantings
- Rose Gardens: Outstanding for rose collections requiring award-winning varieties
- Cut Flower Gardens: Excellent for creating spectacular golden arrangements
- Gift Gardens: Meaningful choice for special occasion plantings
- Small Gardens: Perfect where space is limited but impact is desired
- Cottage Gardens: Ideal for informal settings with its cheerful, welcoming colour
Gold Standard Award Excellence
'Happy Golden Wedding' has earned the prestigious Gold Standard Award, confirming its exceptional combination of flower quality, garden performance, disease resistance, and overall excellence. This coveted award validates the variety's outstanding characteristics as judged by horticultural experts and ensures gardeners can plant with complete confidence in its proven superiority.
The Gold Standard Award status guarantees that this variety has been recognised for exceptional qualities, reliable performance, and superior garden value by the most respected rose authorities.
Breeding Heritage
Bred by the renowned Fryer breeding programme, 'Happy Golden Wedding' represents the finest tradition of British rose breeding excellence. The Fryer breeding programme has a distinguished reputation for producing roses that combine exceptional beauty with outstanding garden performance and reliability.
This prestigious breeding background ensures both quality and dependability, making it a trusted choice for discerning gardeners who appreciate roses with proven breeding credentials and exceptional performance characteristics.
Perfect for Cutting
The strong stems, large well-formed blooms, and rich fragrance make 'Happy Golden Wedding' outstanding for cut flower arrangements. The brilliant golden blooms create spectacular arrangements that bring sunshine indoors, whilst the strong fragrance adds another dimension to indoor displays. The unfading colour ensures long-lasting beauty in arrangements.
Companion Planting
The brilliant golden yellow blooms work beautifully with complementary colours such as deep purples, blues, or rich reds that create striking contrasts, whilst cream, white, or soft orange companions enhance the warm golden tones. The semi-glossy medium green foliage provides excellent structure and seasonal interest as a backdrop to other plants.
Care and Maintenance
'Happy Golden Wedding' exemplifies easy-care gardening with its extremely disease-resistant foliage and hardy constitution. The excellent health characteristics mean minimal intervention is required, making it suitable for both novice and experienced gardeners seeking reliable roses that deliver consistent results.
Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering throughout the season, whilst the compact, manageable size makes pruning and maintenance straightforward. The exceptional disease resistance means minimal spray programmes are required.
Why Choose 'Happy Golden Wedding'?
Rose 'Happy Golden Wedding' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a Gold Standard Award winning rose that combines brilliant unfading golden beauty with meaningful symbolism and exceptional reliability. Its award-winning credentials, rich fragrance, compact growth habit, and extremely disease-resistant constitution make it both a stunning garden feature and practical growing choice.
Whether you're commemorating a golden wedding anniversary, creating brilliant colour schemes in containers, seeking meaningful roses for special occasion gardens, wanting a variety suitable for small spaces, or looking for roses with proven award-winning performance, 'Happy Golden Wedding' delivers outstanding results. Its Gold Standard Award status, proven garden reliability, and brilliant golden blooms make it an essential choice for gardeners who appreciate roses that combine horticultural excellence with meaningful symbolism and distinctive beauty that provides reliable colour, fragrance, and joy 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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