Rose 'Hot Chocolate' ('Wekpaltlez') - Floribunda Rose
A remarkable and distinctive floribunda rose that produces extraordinary displays of uniquely coloured blooms in rich warm tones of rusty orange deepening to velvety smoky brown, combining medium fragrance with excellent disease resistance and continuous flowering performance throughout the season, making it the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a truly unusual and captivating rose with exceptional colour that stands out in any garden setting.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: June to September (repeat flowering until first frosts)
- Flower Colour: Rusty orange to smoky brown
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Bushy, compact, upright
- Flower Type: Double, clustered blooms (medium-sized)
- Fragrance: Medium to strong fragrance
- Introduced: 2002 by Weeks Roses, USA; introduced to UK in 2006
- Awards: RHS Award of Garden Merit, Gold Standard Award 2006, Novelty Rose of the Year 2006
Overview
Rose 'Hot Chocolate' ('Wekpaltlez') is a truly exceptional floribunda rose that captivates gardeners with its extraordinary and unique colouring that perfectly matches its delicious name. This award-winning variety produces magnificent clusters of double blooms that begin as rusty orange buds and open to reveal warm, smoky brown roses with rich velvety overtones that deepen as the flowers mature. The most remarkable feature is its unprecedented colour combination that creates a truly distinctive garden presence, enhanced by its medium to strong fragrance and excellent disease resistance. With its compact, bushy growth habit and glossy, dark green foliage, this rose represents outstanding value for gardeners seeking a conversation-starting variety that combines unique beauty with reliable garden performance and continuous flowering from early summer through to the first frosts.
Key Characteristics
The outstanding appeal of 'Hot Chocolate' lies in its extraordinary double blooms that showcase completely unique colouring in the rose world. Each flower displays perfect clustered form with rich, warm tones that begin as rusty orange buds and transform into velvety smoky brown blooms with chocolate overtones as they mature. The flowers are produced in large, impressive clusters that create substantial visual impact throughout the flowering season. The medium to strong fragrance adds a delightful sensory dimension to the unique visual experience, whilst the continuously changing colour as blooms age ensures that the display remains fresh and interesting throughout the growing season, making this rose exceptionally valuable for creating distinctive focal points and conversation pieces in the garden.
Growth Characteristics
This floribunda rose displays a naturally compact, bushy growth habit that creates an attractive, well-proportioned shrub perfect for formal and informal garden settings. Typically reaching 1.6m in height with a spread of 80cm, the plant develops into a sturdy, vigorous bush with excellent branching structure and strong constitution. The medium-sized growth habit ensures prolific flowering whilst maintaining an ideal size for most garden situations, including smaller spaces, front borders, and container cultivation. The upright, bushy nature makes it particularly suitable for rose borders, mixed plantings, or positioning as a distinctive feature where its unique chocolate-brown blooms can be fully appreciated and admired by visitors.
Flowering Performance
From June through to September, with continuous repeat flowering until the first frosts, 'Hot Chocolate' delivers exceptional flowering displays that provide months of unique colour and distinctive beauty throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces magnificent clusters of double blooms continuously, creating substantial visual impact with each flush of flowering. The flowers showcase perfect clustered form with extraordinary colour transformation from rusty orange buds to warm, smoky brown blooms that acquire rich chocolate overtones as they mature. The reliable repeat-flowering nature combined with the medium to strong fragrance ensures continuous colour and perfume, with regular deadheading encouraging further blooming and maintaining the spectacular chocolate-brown display well into autumn, making it particularly valuable for long-season garden interest and unique colour appeal.
Growing Conditions
'Hot Chocolate' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, well-drained soil, requiring at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight daily for optimal flowering performance and colour intensity. The rose demonstrates excellent adaptability to various soil types and growing conditions, making it suitable for a wide range of garden situations. For best results, plant in fertile, well-drained loam with a pH between 6.0 and 6.8 that has been improved with organic matter such as well-rotted compost or manure, ensuring consistent moisture levels during the growing season. The rose benefits from good air circulation around the foliage, which helps maintain the excellent disease resistance and promotes healthy, vigorous growth. Space plants 2-3 feet apart to ensure proper air circulation and prevent disease whilst allowing each plant to develop its full potential.
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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