Rose 'Loving Memory' - Hybrid Tea Rose
A spectacular memorial hybrid tea rose producing masses of large, well-formed blooms in rich crimson-scarlet with light sweet fragrance, complemented by abundant semi-glossy rich green foliage, vigorous upright growth, and excellent disease resistance, making it perfect for memorial gardens, cutting displays, exhibition purposes, and anywhere meaningful beauty with exceptional garden performance is desired.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 1.2m
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Rich crimson-scarlet to deep red
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, upright and bushy
- Flower Type: Very large double blooms up to 12cm (5 inches) across with 40 thick velvety petals
- Fragrance: Light sweet fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Loving Memory' stands as one of the finest memorial and exhibition roses available, specifically bred by Kordes of Germany to commemorate special memories and beloved relationships with its spectacular display of very large, well-formed blooms in rich crimson-scarlet. This exceptional variety produces masses of huge high-centred flowers measuring up to 12cm across with distinctive thick, velvety petals that reflex slightly to present the intricate beauty of the flower's centre, containing up to 40 substantial petals. The striking rich crimson colour provides spectacular displays that maintain their intensity throughout the extended flowering season from summer through to autumn, whilst the light sweet fragrance adds aromatic dimension that enhances memorial gardens and commemorative settings. With its vigorous upright growth habit, abundant semi-glossy rich green foliage that provides perfect colour contrast, excellent disease resistance, and long straight stems ideal for cutting, 'Loving Memory' delivers outstanding garden performance with meaningful significance, making it ideal for memorial plantings, exhibition purposes, cutting gardens, and anywhere significant beauty with exceptional garden excellence is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Loving Memory' lies in its masses of very large, well-formed blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional substance and remarkable memorial significance. Each flower displays rich crimson-scarlet colouring with thick, velvety petals arranged in classic high-centred shape, measuring an impressive 12cm across and containing up to 40 substantial petals that create blooms of remarkable presence and garden impact. The deep red to crimson-scarlet tones provide spectacular displays that maintain their rich intensity throughout the flowering season, creating consistent colour that symbolises enduring love and cherished memories. The flowers are produced abundantly on long straight stems throughout summer and autumn, opening from beautifully formed buds that add elegant anticipation to the garden display. The light sweet fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both memorial garden themes and everyday garden enjoyment with meaningful significance.
Growth Characteristics
The long straight stems provide excellent support for the abundant very large flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for cutting, exhibition, and formal garden applications where stem strength and flower presentation are crucial. The abundant semi-glossy rich green foliage is produced prolifically, creating attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the deep crimson blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance throughout the growing season. The vigorous yet manageable growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from memorial borders to cutting gardens.
Flowering Performance
From summer through to autumn, 'Loving Memory' delivers exceptional flowering displays with reliable repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of very large, well-formed flowers continuously on long stems, creating substantial visual impact with reliable performance that ensures ongoing memorial celebration. The individual blooms develop with classic hybrid tea form, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect crimson-scarlet colour and exceptional petal quality, whilst the substantial 40-petal structure ensures each flower maintains its elegant appearance for extended periods. The prolific flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the abundant deep red blooms providing continuous focal points that honour cherished memories with their rich colour and meaningful significance.
Growing Conditions
'Loving Memory' thrives in full sun with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance and flower development. The rose adapts well to moderately fertile soils and responds excellently to an open, bright aspect where the rich crimson-scarlet colours can be fully appreciated and the memorial significance can be celebrated. For best results, plant in sunny positions with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the vigorous flowering and healthy foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard rose care practices, whilst the manageable size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from memorial beds and borders to cutting gardens.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
One of the most notable features of 'Loving Memory' is its excellent disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The variety demonstrates strong resistance to diseases such as blackspot, mildew, and rust, making it more resilient than most other roses and particularly suitable for memorial plantings where reliable performance is essential. The healthy semi-glossy rich green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with natural disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for low-maintenance gardening approaches where reliable performance with minimal intervention honours the memorial significance. The excellent hardiness ensures reliable performance in UK conditions with good winter tolerance.
Care and Maintenance
'Loving Memory' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and memorial significance. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular deep watering during dry periods to support the vigorous growth and abundant large flower production. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention beyond standard care practices, making it suitable for busy gardeners seeking reliable memorial plantings with meaningful significance. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the vigorous upright shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and memorial celebration.
Garden Applications
'Loving Memory' excels in memorial gardens and exhibition plantings where its meaningful significance and spectacular performance can be fully appreciated. The very large crimson-scarlet blooms make it ideal for memorial plantings, commemorative gardens, and special displays where meaningful beauty and reliable performance honour cherished memories. Perfect for beds and borders, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with long straight stems and excellent vase life that enhance memorial arrangements and special occasions. The vigorous growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating dramatic displays in formal memorial gardens, whilst the manageable size ensures it fits well into diverse garden settings from traditional memorial borders to contemporary commemorative landscapes.
Container Growing
The manageable size and vigorous growth make 'Loving Memory' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and memorial displays. The rose thrives in large containers where its rich crimson blooms can create spectacular focal points for memorial celebrations, making it perfect for terraces and memorial seating areas where meaningful beauty is desired. Choose containers at least 50cm wide and deep with excellent drainage, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than ground-planted roses, but the spectacular memorial displays and meaningful significance make this worthwhile for special plantings and commemorative garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Loving Memory' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous memorial colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of abundant semi-glossy rich green foliage and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular crimson-scarlet blooms from summer through autumn provide months of rich colour that maintains intensity throughout the season, creating consistent memorial impact with meaningful beauty. The attractive disease-resistant foliage remains healthy throughout the season, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the vigorous upright branching structure provides strong architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Loving Memory' features light sweet fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the memorial garden experience with gentle aromatic appeal. The pleasant fragrance adds aromatic interest to memorial spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and gentle aromatic qualities honour cherished memories. The subtle sweet scent enhances memorial garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where fragrance contributes to the commemorative garden experience, particularly near memorial seating areas and pathways where the aromatic qualities can be appreciated alongside the spectacular visual display.
Companion Planting
The rich crimson-scarlet colouring of 'Loving Memory' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated memorial colour schemes. The deep red tones work beautifully with white flowers for elegant memorial contrast that highlights both the commemorative significance and garden beauty, whilst purple and pink flowers create sophisticated colour harmonies. Silver and grey foliage plants complement the rich red tones whilst cream flowers provide peaceful displays. The vigorous growth makes it suitable for planting with perennials and herbs that enhance the garden's memorial atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Innovation
'Loving Memory' represents exceptional hybrid tea breeding achievement by Kordes of Germany, created specifically to honour cherished memories and commemorate beloved relationships with outstanding garden performance. The variety demonstrates breeding excellence that successfully integrated meaningful memorial significance with exceptional flower quality, excellent disease resistance, and reliable garden performance, creating a rose that satisfies both commemorative purposes and practical gardening requirements. The breeding achievement brings together outstanding flowering abundance, vigorous growth, and meaningful memorial significance that makes this variety particularly valuable for memorial plantings and commemorative gardens.
Memorial Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Loving Memory' is its specific purpose to honour cherished memories and commemorate beloved relationships, making it uniquely meaningful for memorial garden displays and commemorative plantings. The rich crimson-scarlet colour symbolises enduring love and lasting memories, whilst the abundant flowering represents the continuation of love beyond physical presence. This memorial significance, combined with exceptional garden performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both meaningful symbolism and practical excellence for creating lasting memorial tributes.
Cut Flower and Exhibition Excellence
The excellent cut flower and exhibition qualities make 'Loving Memory' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to create meaningful floral arrangements and honour special occasions. The long straight stems, very large well-formed blooms, and rich colour create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the memorial significance of the commemorative purpose. The vigorous flowering ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both memorial garden beauty and exceptional commemorative arrangements.
Why Choose 'Loving Memory'?
Rose 'Loving Memory' represents the perfect combination of memorial significance, exceptional performance, and meaningful beauty. The masses of very large crimson-scarlet blooms with their light sweet fragrance provide spectacular memorial displays from summer through autumn, whilst the vigorous growth and excellent disease resistance ensure reliable performance with minimal maintenance. Whether grown for memorial gardens, commemorative plantings, exhibition purposes, or simply for its exceptional beauty and meaningful significance, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers unique value that combines profound memorial meaning with outstanding garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that honours cherished relationships and celebrates the continuation of love in any garden setting.
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.
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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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