Rose 'Greetings' – The Award-Winning Shrub Rose with Stunning Purple and Silver Drama
Rose 'Greetings' stands as one of the most distinctive and reliable shrub roses available, earning its reputation as the ultimate choice for gardeners seeking extraordinary colour combinations and excellent disease resistance. This exceptional variety produces abundant clusters of semi-double blooms in striking red and purple tones with white reverse and silver centres, creating a spectacular display of unique bicolour beauty. With its very disease resistant nature, upright well-branched growth, and versatile garden applications, 'Greetings' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking both dramatic visual impact and dependable, low-maintenance performance.
Headlines
- Type: Hardy shrub rose
- Eventual Height: 1m
- Eventual Spread: 75cm
- Flowering: Summer with occasional repeat later in the season
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Medium, upright, well-branched shrub
- Colour: Red and purple with white reverse and white centre
- Form: Semi-double blooms with 9-16 petals in large clusters
- Size: 2 inches (5cm) average diameter
- Petals: 9 to 16 petals per bloom
- Fragrance: None to mild fragrance
Spectacular Flowers
The defining beauty of 'Greetings' lies in its striking semi-double blooms that showcase an extraordinary colour combination rarely seen in garden roses. These magnificent flowers display red and purple tones with white reverse and white centres, creating what Cants of Colchester describes as small semi-double purple blooms with a silver eye and a silver reverse.
The semi-double flowers with 9 to 16 petals are produced in large clusters typical of the finest shrub roses, ensuring a consistent and abundant display throughout the flowering season. Each 2-inch bloom exemplifies dramatic elegance with its unique bicolour pattern, making them exceptional for both bold garden displays and distinctive cut flower arrangements.
Delicate Fragrance
'Greetings' offers none to mild fragrance, allowing the spectacular visual impact of the blooms to take centre stage. This subtle approach to scent makes the variety perfect for gardeners who prioritise visual drama and disease resistance over strong fragrance, whilst still providing a gentle olfactory experience.
The light fragrance makes this rose ideal for mass plantings where the collective visual impact creates the primary garden appeal.
Outstanding Garden Performance
This superb shrub rose demonstrates exceptional garden performance with small, glossy, dark green foliage that provides the perfect backdrop for the dramatic purple and silver blooms. The variety exhibits medium, upright, well-branched growth that creates excellent structure throughout the growing season.
'Greetings' boasts very disease resistant characteristics, ensuring reliable performance year after year with minimal intervention required. This robust constitution makes it perfect for gardeners seeking both extraordinary beauty and dependable, low-maintenance results across a wide range of climate conditions.
Flowering Performance
As a shrub rose with occasional repeat later in the season, 'Greetings' provides a spectacular main flush of blooms in summer followed by intermittent flowering that extends the garden impact. This flowering pattern ensures maximum visual impact during peak garden season whilst providing bonus blooms later in the year.
The variety produces blooms in large clusters during its main flowering period, creating dramatic displays that make this rose highly valued for its bold garden presence and unique colour combination.
Growing Requirements
- Position: Full sun for best flowering and disease resistance
- Soil: Adaptable to various soil types with good drainage preferred
- Spacing: Allow adequate space for the spreading habit
- Care: Remove spent blooms to encourage re-bloom. Minimal intervention required due to excellent disease resistance
- Pruning: Spring pruning involves removing old canes and dead or diseased wood, cutting back crossing canes, and reducing remaining canes by one-third in warmer climates
The very disease resistant nature and adaptable growing requirements make this variety suitable for a wide range of growing conditions.
Garden Uses
'Greetings' offers exceptional versatility for various garden applications:
- Beds and Borders: Perfect for creating dramatic colour focal points
- Ground Cover: Excellent for covering larger areas with spectacular colour
- Shrub Plantings: Outstanding as specimen shrubs in landscape design
- Mixed Borders: Provides structure and unique colour in perennial plantings
- Low-Maintenance Gardens: Ideal for gardeners seeking disease-resistant roses
- Landscape Plantings: Perfect for larger scale garden designs
- Cut Flower Gardens: Distinctive for unique flower arrangements
Breeding Excellence
'Greetings' was bred by Keith Zary in 1997 and bears the registration name 'Jacdreco'. The variety represents the finest tradition of American rose breeding, focusing on disease resistance and unique colour combinations that set this rose apart from conventional varieties.
This prestigious breeding background ensures both quality and distinctive characteristics, with the variety earning recognition from the American Rose Society and receiving excellent ratings from gardeners worldwide.
Perfect for Cutting
The strong, well-branched growth and distinctive semi-double blooms make 'Greetings' exceptional for cut flower arrangements. The unique purple and silver colour combination creates arrangements that provide extraordinary visual impact, perfect for dramatic indoor displays and special occasions.
Companion Planting
The striking red and purple blooms with silver centres of 'Greetings' work beautifully with silver foliage plants that complement the unique colour tones, whilst white or cream companions enhance the silver reverse. The small, glossy, dark green foliage provides excellent structure and seasonal interest in landscape plantings.
Care and Maintenance
'Greetings' is an exceptionally easy-care variety with very disease resistant characteristics. The robust constitution and excellent health mean minimal intervention is required, making it suitable for gardeners seeking distinctive roses with practical growing advantages.
Regular removal of spent blooms encourages occasional repeat flowering, whilst annual spring pruning maintains the upright, well-branched form and encourages vigorous new growth for optimal performance.
Why Choose 'Greetings'?
Rose 'Greetings' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a truly distinctive shrub rose that combines extraordinary colour with exceptional reliability. Its combination of unique purple and silver blooms, very disease resistant nature, versatile garden applications, and excellent ratings make it both a stunning landscape feature and practical growing choice.
Whether you're creating dramatic landscape plantings, seeking disease-resistant roses for low-maintenance gardens, or wanting a variety that offers something completely different from conventional colours, 'Greetings' delivers outstanding results. Its proven performance, unique characteristics, and adaptable nature make it an essential choice for gardeners who appreciate roses that combine horticultural excellence with truly remarkable and unforgettable beauty.
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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