Rose 'Joie de Vivre' - Floribunda Rose
A magnificent award-winning Floribunda rose that produces an abundance of large, fully double blooms in soft creamy-pink tones with white edges, combining exceptional old-fashioned charm with outstanding disease resistance and continuous flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous Floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 90cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm diameter
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Soft creamy-pink with white edges and peach highlights
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy, robust-growing
- Flower Type: Large, fully double rosette-form blooms
- Awards: Rose of the Year 2011
Overview
Rose 'Joie de Vivre' is a truly outstanding Floribunda rose that exemplifies modern rose breeding excellence, winning the prestigious Rose of the Year award in 2011. This distinguished variety, bred by Kordes, produces magnificent fully double blooms in soft creamy-pink tones with distinctive white edges and peach highlights that create classic rosette-form flowers of exceptional beauty. The most striking feature is its exceptional combination of old-fashioned charm with excellent disease resistance, complemented by lustrous dark green glossy foliage that provides perfect contrast to the delicate blooms. With outstanding health, compact bushy growth habit, and continuous repeat flowering performance from June to September, this rose represents one of the finest examples of contemporary Floribunda roses for modern gardens. Each quartered and cupped bloom displays the classic rosette shape that adds timeless elegance to any garden setting.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Joie de Vivre' lies in its profuse fully double blooms that showcase spectacular old-fashioned charm with substantial visual impact displayed in generous clusters. Each bloom displays soft creamy-pink colouring with distinctive white edges and peach highlights, creating sophisticated colour transitions that enhance the classic rosette form. The flowers combine pastel pink and cream tones with white edges, creating harmonious colour combinations that add elegance and romance to the garden display. The fully double flower form with classic quartered and cupped shape, combined with continuous flowering habit, excellent disease resistance, and gentle fragrance makes this rose suitable for a wide range of garden applications, from cottage gardens to formal borders and container cultivation.
Growth Characteristics
This Floribunda rose displays a naturally compact, bushy growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for modern garden applications and container cultivation. The plant develops into a strong, well-proportioned specimen with excellent branching structure and robust performance. The compact yet vigorous nature ensures reliable flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, manageable size perfect for contemporary gardens. The bushy growth habit makes it ideal for front to mid-border positions, cottage gardens, or positioning where its spectacular beauty and old-fashioned charm can be fully appreciated. The robust stems provide excellent support for the large, heavy blooms, making this variety particularly suitable for both garden display and container growing.
Flowering Performance
From June through to September, 'Joie de Vivre' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the growing season. The plant produces magnificent fully double blooms held in generous clusters, creating substantial visual impact with continuous flowering from early summer into mid-autumn. The flowers showcase soft creamy-pink colouring with white edges and peach highlights, creating ongoing visual interest and romantic elegance. The repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous colour throughout the growing season, with the abundant blooms providing a spectacular display that captures attention with its gentle colours and delicate fragrance. The extended flowering period provides valuable long-season garden interest and excellent cutting potential.
Growing Conditions
'Joie de Vivre' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, requiring at least 6 hours of direct sunlight daily for optimal flowering performance and colour development. The rose adapts well to various soil types including acid, alkaline, and neutral conditions, providing adequate drainage is maintained. For best results, plant in fertile, well-drained soil that has been improved with organic matter, ensuring consistent moisture throughout the growing season. The rose benefits from good air circulation around the foliage and performs well in various exposures including south, west, and east-facing aspects, tolerating both exposed and sheltered conditions.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
This rose demonstrates exceptional hardiness suitable for growing throughout the UK, being fully hardy (H6 rating) and showing excellent tolerance of typical British weather conditions. One of the most notable features of 'Joie de Vivre' is its excellent disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The healthy, lustrous, dark green glossy foliage remains attractive and vigorous, with outstanding natural resistance to common rose diseases. This exceptional disease resistance makes it an excellent choice for organic gardening approaches and eliminates the need for chemical interventions, making it particularly suitable for busy gardeners seeking low-maintenance excellence with old-fashioned charm.
Care and Maintenance
'Joie de Vivre' requires minimal maintenance to maintain optimal health and flowering performance, making it ideal for busy gardeners and cottage garden enthusiasts. Apply a balanced fertiliser and mulch in late winter or early spring, followed by another application of balanced fertiliser in early summer to support continuous flowering. Regular watering during dry periods, particularly in the first year after planting, helps establish strong root systems. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention, making it an easy-care option. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering, whilst proper pruning in late winter maintains the compact shape and promotes vigorous new growth with abundant blooms.
Garden Applications
'Joie de Vivre' excels in cottage gardens where its old-fashioned charm and continuous flowering provide exceptional romantic appeal. The compact bushy growth habit makes it ideal for mixed borders, formal rose gardens, and informal displays where its classical beauty can be appreciated. The soft pink flowers with white edges suit both contemporary and traditional garden settings perfectly, whilst the manageable size makes it excellent for front to mid-border positions or as specimen plants. The rose works beautifully in romantic plantings, creating impressive displays that combine visual charm with sophisticated colour combinations. The continuous flowering makes it particularly suitable for gardens requiring consistent colour and old-fashioned appeal throughout the season.
Container Growing
The compact growth habit and excellent disease resistance make 'Joie de Vivre' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios and formal areas. The rose thrives in large containers on balconies, terraces, and areas where soil conditions are challenging, making it perfect for urban gardening applications and patio displays. Choose a container at least 50cm wide and deep with adequate drainage holes, and use high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than those planted in the ground, but the compact habit means they remain attractive whilst delivering exceptional flowering performance and romantic appeal throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Joie de Vivre' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, healthy, lustrous dark green foliage and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The extended flowering season from June to September ensures months of colour and romantic interest, with the soft pink blooms with white edges creating harmonious displays that showcase remarkable consistency. The healthy glossy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the spectacular rosette-form flowers. Even in winter, the strong branching structure provides architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering.
Cut Flower Value
The exceptional cut flower value of 'Joie de Vivre' makes it outstanding for indoor arrangements and romantic floral displays. The large, fully double blooms with classic rosette form provide exceptional longevity when cut, with the substantial size and sophisticated colouring making them perfect for both formal and cottage-style arrangements. The continuous blooming habit from June to September makes this rose invaluable for cutting gardens, providing abundant flowers throughout the growing season. The sturdy stems and long-lasting blooms make it particularly suitable for special occasions and regular household arrangements, whilst the gentle fragrance adds extra appeal to indoor displays.
Fragrance Profile
'Joie de Vivre' features a gentle, light fragrance that complements its old-fashioned charm without overwhelming other garden plants. The subtle, pleasant scent provides delicate garden ambience whilst allowing the magnificent blooms and sophisticated colouring to take centre stage. This balanced approach to fragrance makes it particularly suitable for mixed plantings and areas where multiple fragrant plants are grown together, creating harmonious scent combinations throughout the garden whilst maintaining the romantic cottage garden atmosphere.
Companion Planting
The soft pink and white colours of 'Joie de Vivre' provide excellent opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of cottage garden plants. The gentle pink tones work beautifully with blue and purple flowers, creating complementary displays that add depth and romance to garden schemes. The rose pairs exceptionally well with herbaceous perennials, lavender, and traditional cottage garden plants, creating romantic borders that provide interest throughout the growing season. Silver and grey foliage plants provide sophisticated contrasts, whilst cream and white flowers create fresh, elegant combinations. The compact habit makes it suitable for planting with lower-growing perennials and annuals, creating layered displays that maximise romantic appeal.
Award Recognition and Heritage
'Joie de Vivre' has received the prestigious Rose of the Year award in 2011, providing confidence in its exceptional garden performance and outstanding flower quality. The Rose of the Year award is given only to roses that demonstrate excellent performance in garden conditions after undergoing rigorous trials and assessments by specialist teams. This recognition marks this variety as one of exceptional merit, combining stunning old-fashioned beauty with outstanding garden performance that meets the highest standards for both visual appeal and reliable cultivation.
Breeding Excellence and Innovation
Bred by renowned German rose breeder Kordes and introduced in 2011, 'Joie de Vivre' represents cutting-edge Floribunda rose breeding that combines classical charm with modern garden performance. The breeding programme has successfully created a variety that demonstrates exceptional disease resistance, continuous flowering habit, and sophisticated colouring that sets it apart from conventional Floribunda roses. This modern breeding approach ensures reliable performance whilst delivering the spectacular old-fashioned charm that makes this rose truly special for romantic garden settings.
Unique Rosette Form
The most distinctive feature of 'Joie de Vivre' is its spectacular rosette-form blooms with quartered and cupped petals that create the classic old-fashioned flower shape beloved by cottage gardeners. This unique characteristic, combined with the soft pink colouring and white edges, creates flowers that are instantly recognisable and remarkably striking. The rosette form adds depth and sophistication to the blooms whilst creating a focal point that captures the essence of traditional English garden roses with modern reliability.
Continuous Bloom Performance
The exceptional continuous flowering habit of 'Joie de Vivre' ensures that gardens remain colourful and romantic from early summer through to mid-autumn. The ability to produce flowers continuously throughout this extended period makes it invaluable for maintaining consistent garden interest and cottage garden charm. This reliable performance makes it particularly suitable for situations where consistent colour and romantic appeal are required throughout the growing season, making it perfect for both traditional and contemporary garden settings.
Why Choose 'Joie de Vivre'?
Rose 'Joie de Vivre' represents the perfect combination of award-winning beauty, exceptional old-fashioned charm, and outstanding garden performance. The large fully double blooms with their soft pink colouring and white edges provide continuous flowering displays from June through to September, whilst the excellent disease resistance ensures healthy growth with minimal maintenance. The compact, bushy growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from cottage gardens to formal borders and container cultivation. Whether grown for its spectacular rosette-form blooms, exceptional romantic appeal, or as a stunning Rose of the Year winner, this innovative rose offers outstanding visual and practical value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and timeless cottage garden 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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