Rose 'Happy Silver Wedding' – The Perfect Silver Anniversary Floribunda with Elegant Silvery-Pink Beauty
Rose 'Happy Silver Wedding' stands as one of the most meaningful and reliable floribunda roses available, earning its reputation as the ultimate choice for commemorating silver wedding anniversaries and special celebrations. This exceptional variety produces abundant large clusters of perfectly formed, double blooms in elegant silvery-pink tones that create a spectacular display of refined, celebratory colour. With its highly fragrant blooms, good disease resistance, vigorous growth, and perfect gift appeal, 'Happy Silver Wedding' represents the ideal choice for gardeners seeking both beautiful continuous colour and heartfelt symbolism.
Headlines
- Type: Hardy floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 1m
- Eventual Spread: 1m
- Flowering: June - July // September - October
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, strong bush with excellent structure
- Colour: Elegant silvery-pink
- Form: Large clusters of perfectly formed, double blooms
- Size: Well-formed, substantial blooms
- Petals: Double formation
- Fragrance: Highly fragrant with lightly scented blooms
Spectacular Flowers
The defining beauty of 'Happy Silver Wedding' lies in its large clusters of perfectly formed, double blooms in elegant silvery-pink tones that create a refined and celebratory garden display. These magnificent flowers showcase beautiful silvery pale pink colouration that maintains its sophisticated appearance throughout the blooming cycle, creating the perfect tribute to 25 years of marriage.
The perfectly formed double blooms are produced in profusion throughout the season, with each cluster containing multiple beautifully shaped flowers that exemplify classic floribunda elegance. The silvery-pink colouration provides exceptional garden impact whilst maintaining the refined sophistication that makes this variety perfect for meaningful commemorative plantings.
Delightful Fragrance
'Happy Silver Wedding' offers highly fragrant blooms that add an extra dimension of charm to its already impressive garden presence. This lightly scented quality creates a delightful olfactory experience that enhances the celebratory nature of this meaningful variety.
The lovely fragrance makes this rose perfect for positions near seating areas, pathways, or windows where the combination of elegant silvery-pink blooms and delightful scent can be fully appreciated throughout the extended flowering season.
Outstanding Garden Performance
This superb floribunda demonstrates exceptional garden performance with vigorous growth that creates a strong bush with excellent structure throughout the growing season. The variety exhibits robust constitution that ensures reliable performance year after year with good disease resistance.
'Happy Silver Wedding' boasts good resistance to diseases, ensuring dependable results with minimal intervention required. This vigorous grower makes it perfect for gardeners seeking both beautiful celebratory colour and practical growing advantages.
Continuous Flowering Performance
As a repeat-flowering floribunda, 'Happy Silver Wedding' produces silvery pink flowers in profusion throughout the season, flowering from summer through to winter, year after year. This exceptionally extended flowering season means the rose maintains its celebratory impact throughout virtually the entire growing period.
The variety demonstrates excellent repeat flowering performance, with charming blooms grown in abundance all season long on this vigorous grower, ensuring gardeners can enjoy consistent displays of the magnificent silvery-pink clusters for an extraordinarily long period.
Growing Requirements
- Position: Full sun for best flowering and colour development
- Soil: Adaptable to various soil types with good drainage preferred
- Spacing: Plant to accommodate the 100cm spread
- Care: Standard floribunda care applies - regular watering during dry periods and annual feeding with balanced rose fertiliser
- Containers: Ideal for tubs, containers or garden planting
The vigorous growth and good disease resistance make this variety suitable for a wide range of growing conditions whilst maintaining outstanding performance.
Garden Uses
'Happy Silver Wedding' offers exceptional versatility for various garden applications:
- Anniversary Gardens: Perfect as a meaningful gift for silver wedding anniversaries
- Mixed Borders: Provides elegant colour and structure in perennial plantings
- Container Gardens: Ideal for tubs, containers on patios and terraces
- Gift Gardens: Makes the perfect 25th anniversary gift
- Special Occasion Gardens: Outstanding for commemorating important milestones
- Cut Flower Gardens: Exceptional for celebratory flower arrangements
- Standard Forms: Available as standard roses for formal garden features
Breeding Excellence
'Happy Silver Wedding' was bred by Fryer and bears the breeder code 'Frysilva'. This prestigious breeding background from Fryer ensures both quality and reliability, making it a trusted choice for important commemorative plantings and meaningful gifts.
The variety represents the finest tradition of British rose breeding, focusing on combining beautiful flower form with reliable garden performance and symbolic significance.
Perfect for Cutting
The strong, vigorous growth and large clusters make 'Happy Silver Wedding' exceptional for cut flower arrangements, particularly those with celebratory meaning. The perfectly formed silvery-pink blooms combined with their highly fragrant nature create arrangements that provide both visual elegance and delightful scent, making them perfect for silver anniversary celebrations and special indoor displays.
Companion Planting
The elegant silvery-pink blooms of 'Happy Silver Wedding' work beautifully with silver foliage plants that complement the sophisticated colour tones, whilst white or deeper pink companions create harmonious combinations. The vigorous growth provides excellent structure and seasonal interest in garden compositions.
Care and Maintenance
'Happy Silver Wedding' is a highly recommended variety that requires standard floribunda maintenance. The good disease resistance and vigorous growth mean minimal intervention is required, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable roses with meaningful symbolism.
Regular deadheading of spent bloom clusters encourages the continuous flowering habit throughout the extended season, whilst annual feeding maintains the vigorous growth and abundant silvery-pink bloom production.
Why Choose 'Happy Silver Wedding'?
Rose 'Happy Silver Wedding' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a meaningful rose that combines elegant beauty with exceptional reliability. Its combination of perfectly formed silvery-pink blooms, highly fragrant nature, good disease resistance, and celebratory significance make it both a sophisticated garden feature and practical growing choice.
Whether you're creating a commemorative garden, seeking the perfect silver anniversary gift, or wanting a variety that provides continuous elegant colour with reliable performance, 'Happy Silver Wedding' delivers outstanding results. Its meaningful symbolism, proven performance, and adaptable nature make it an essential choice for gardeners who appreciate roses that combine horticultural excellence with heartfelt meaning and lasting celebration.
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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