Rose 'Moonlight' - Shrub Rose
A luminous shrub rose that brings ethereal beauty to any garden space with its abundant displays of exquisite creamy-white blooms, intoxicating night-blooming fragrance, and exceptional flowering performance throughout the season, perfectly complemented by lustrous dark green foliage and elegant upright growth that makes it ideal for evening gardens, formal borders, specimen plantings, and mystical garden displays where celestial beauty creates enchanting nocturnal atmospheres.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous shrub rose
- Eventual Height: 180cm
- Eventual Spread: 125cm
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Creamy-white with pale yellow centres
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Elegant, upright, with well-balanced branching habit
- Flower Type: Semi-double blooms in luminous clusters
- Fragrance: Intoxicating night-blooming fragrance with jasmine notes
Overview
Rose 'Moonlight' exemplifies ethereal garden excellence, producing continuous displays of spectacular creamy-white blooms that create celestial beauty throughout the extended growing season. This outstanding variety transforms garden spaces with its perfectly proportioned elegant growth that showcases abundant clusters of semi-double blooms, where individual flowers feature beautiful creamy-white petals with pale yellow centres in magnificent arrangements that create luminous visual presence in any garden setting. The celestial colour palette makes this rose particularly impressive for evening gardens and mystical border displays, representing serenity, illumination, and garden enchantment. The flowers emerge in repeated displays throughout the season with excellent repeat flowering, creating sustained displays that reach perfect proportions with consistent appealing beauty. The intoxicating night-blooming fragrance enhances the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that complement both formal border displays and nocturnal landscape designs with ethereal beauty and reliable elegant performance.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Moonlight' lies in its abundant semi-double blooms that showcase luminous formation with spectacular creamy-white elegance and perfect elegant presence. Each flower displays beautifully formed structure with semi-double petals featuring soft creamy-white colour with pale yellow centres in magnificent cluster arrangements, creating displays of exceptional beauty and celestial charm. The luminous creamy-white colour provides enchanting displays that maintain their ethereal sophistication throughout the flowering season, creating spectacular visual illumination that symbolises serenity and garden mysticism. The flowers are produced in clusters with excellent repeat flowering characteristics, emerging continuously throughout the summer that add magnificent anticipation to the elegant garden display. The intoxicating night-blooming fragrance with jasmine notes complements the ethereal visual appeal, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both border applications and garden enjoyment with celestial colour sophistication and heavenly aromatic charm.
Growth Characteristics
The elegant upright growth provides excellent proportioned structure for impressive border displays and garden features, making this variety particularly valuable for formal gardens, specimen plantings, and garden applications where refined beauty and spectacular flowering coverage are essential. The lustrous dark green foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the creamy-white bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent vigour and glossy appeal. The well-balanced branching habit ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial visual impact that fits perfectly into diverse garden settings, with the manageable size making it ideal for border cultivation and prominent garden positions where its celestial beauty can be fully appreciated.
Flowering Performance
Throughout the summer to autumn, 'Moonlight' delivers exceptional flowering displays with excellent repeat blooming that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces abundant clusters of creamy-white blooms consistently, creating impressive visual impact with exceptional performance that ensures ongoing garden illumination. The individual semi-double blooms develop with luminous formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect creamy-white colour sophistication and pale yellow centre brightness, whilst the generous cluster size ensures impressive presence for extended periods throughout the elegant plant size. The free flowering nature with excellent repeat characteristics ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the ongoing ethereal blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their luminous colour palette and intoxicating night-blooming fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Moonlight' thrives in full sun to partial shade with fertile, well-prepared, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance and colour development. The rose adapts excellently to border cultivation and performs brilliantly in formal gardens, evening gardens, and garden spaces where the creamy-white colours can create maximum visual impact. For best results, plant in sunny to lightly shaded locations with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter or quality garden compost to support the healthy elegant growth and lustrous dark green foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding during the growing season and responds exceptionally well to formal cultivation practices, whilst the substantial size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from formal borders to mystical rose gardens where its celestial qualities and creamy-white colour intensity can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Moonlight' demonstrates excellent disease resistance characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with outstanding vigour in its elegant size. The variety shows excellent hardiness with good cold tolerance, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable border plantings. The lustrous dark green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with excellent disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking dependable plantings with manageable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable colour development and flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Care and Maintenance
'Moonlight' requires standard shrub rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and elegant development. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular watering during dry periods to support the healthy elegant growth and abundant flower production. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention with standard care practices, making it ideal for gardeners seeking reliable plantings with celestial impact. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular colour display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the elegant structure and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Moonlight' excels in ethereal border displays and luminous garden features where its celestial beauty and elegant proportions can be fully appreciated. The creamy-white colour makes it ideal for evening border displays, eye-catching garden features, and mystical landscapes where illuminating colour impact and reliable substantial performance are essential. Perfect for formal borders, evening gardens, specimen plantings, and nocturnal garden displays, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers that enhance floral arrangements with luminous colour for special occasions and ethereal displays. The elegant growth and excellent repeat flowering make it particularly suitable for creating stunning focal points in gardens and border collections, whilst the substantial size and celestial nature ensure it provides impressive presence where its luminous colour creates spectacular garden illumination.
Border Cultivation
The elegant upright growth makes 'Moonlight' excellently suited to border cultivation in various garden situations and formal planting schemes. The rose thrives in well-prepared garden soil with good drainage and organic matter, responding well to regular feeding and consistent care where the elegant growth can create maximum flowering impact. Plant at spacing of approximately 80cm apart for optimal development and air circulation, using quality garden compost and slow-release fertiliser. Regular border care during the growing season ensures optimal flowering coverage and healthy development, maximising the spectacular display and seasonal enjoyment.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Moonlight' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous elegant displays and outstanding performance. Spring brings the emergence of lustrous dark green foliage and strong new upright growth, building anticipation for the main spectacular flowering display. The magnificent creamy-white blooms from summer through autumn with excellent repeat flowering provide months of luminous colour that maintains its celestial appeal throughout the season, creating consistent ethereal impact. The attractive lustrous dark green foliage remains healthy throughout the season with excellent disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the elegant flower displays, whilst the upright branching structure provides attractive garden interest year-round.
Fragrance Profile
'Moonlight' features intoxicating night-blooming fragrance with jasmine notes that will heavenly enchant the senses, complementing the celestial visual display and enhancing the garden experience. The night-blooming perfume with jasmine highlights adds mystical aromatic appeal whilst making this rose particularly valuable for garden positions where both visual beauty and heavenly fragrant interest are desired for ethereal occasions. The intoxicating night-blooming fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where celestial scent contributes to the mystical garden experience, particularly near seating areas and outdoor entertaining spaces where the perfume creates lasting luminous impressions.
Companion Planting
The creamy-white colouring of 'Moonlight' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and ethereal colour schemes. The celestial creamy-white colour works beautifully with plants that provide harmonising or contrasting tones, whilst silver and blue foliage plants provide excellent backdrop that allows the colour luminosity to shine. Deep purple and midnight blue flowers provide striking contrasts that highlight the creamy-white blooms, whilst complementary border plants and evening garden perennials can create stunning combinations throughout the growing season.
Garden Integration
The excellent elegant qualities and celestial nature make 'Moonlight' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to integrate ethereal beauty into border displays and mystical garden features. The upright elegant growth, abundant semi-double blooms with luminous colour intensity, and intoxicating night-blooming fragrance create outstanding garden displays that provide lasting seasonal enhancement whilst maintaining the celestial significance of the creamy-white colour drama. The reliable elegant growth ensures impressive flowering impact whilst maintaining perfect proportions, making it ideal for garden beauty and ethereal displays that provide luminous statements for mystical garden areas with excellent performance.
Contemporary Appeal
'Moonlight' represents exceptional shrub rose breeding that combines celestial beauty with perfect elegant proportions and contemporary appeal, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking distinctive roses with ethereal characteristics. The luminous creamy-white colour offers exceptional visual illumination whilst maintaining classic rose appeal and performance, making it particularly suitable for contemporary garden designs and modern border displays where ethereal colour statements and elegant presence are important considerations.
Mystical Garden Value
'Moonlight' offers gardeners a luminous variety that combines celestial beauty with exceptional reliability and ethereal appeal. The variety's enchanting appearance and dependable elegant growth habit have made it popular among gardeners who appreciate roses that combine visual illumination with reliable garden performance and suitability for formal applications and mystical spaces that need a touch of celestial enchantment.
Why Choose 'Moonlight'?
Rose 'Moonlight' represents the perfect combination of celestial beauty, luminous colour elegance, and outstanding reliability. The abundant clusters of semi-double creamy-white blooms with their intoxicating night-blooming fragrance provide exceptional displays from summer through autumn with excellent repeat flowering, whilst the elegant healthy growth and excellent disease resistance ensure dependable performance with standard maintenance requirements. Whether grown for ethereal border displays, luminous garden features, evening gardens, or simply for its celestial beauty and reliable elegant nature, this outstanding shrub rose offers exceptional value that combines mystical appeal with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates serenity and garden enchantment with elegant illumination that enhances any garden setting where mysticism, reliability, and perfect celestial impact are appreciated.
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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