Rose 'Meteor' – The Rose of the Year 2024
A spectacular floribunda rose that captivated judges and gardeners alike to earn the prestigious title of Rose of the Year 2024. This outstanding variety produces abundant clusters of fully double blooms that open golden yellow before gradually transforming to stunning copper-red hues, creating a mesmerising colour display throughout the growing season. With its compact, upright growth habit, excellent disease resistance, and continuous flowering performance, 'Meteor' represents the very best in modern rose breeding and promises to be a garden favourite for years to come.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Golden yellow transitioning to copper-red
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy, upright
- Foliage: Glossy dark green, disease-resistant leaves
- Fragrance: Light, sweet scent
- Position: Full sun preferred
- Soil Requirements: Well-drained, fertile soil
Overview
Rose 'Meteor' stands as a crowning achievement in contemporary rose breeding, earning the coveted Rose of the Year award for 2024 from industry experts. This remarkable floribunda combines striking visual appeal with practical garden performance, making it an ideal choice for both novice and experienced gardeners. The variety showcases the perfect balance of beauty and reliability that modern gardeners demand, with its spectacular colour-changing blooms and robust, healthy growth habit.
Outstanding Flower Characteristics
The defining feature of 'Meteor' is its extraordinary colour transformation that unfolds throughout each bloom's lifecycle. The flowers initially open to golden yellow with flushes of red, creating a captivating display as petals gradually deepen to rich copper-red tones. Eye-catching petals seem to endlessly emerge, whirling into rosette formations that create full, substantial blooms measuring medium to large in size. Each cluster presents multiple flowers at various stages of colour development, ensuring a constantly changing and dynamic display.
The blooms carry a light sweet scent that adds another dimension to their garden appeal. The fully double flowers form attractive rosette shapes that maintain their form well in various weather conditions, making them excellent for both garden display and cutting.
Growth Habit and Garden Performance
'Meteor' forms an erect, compact bush. This manageable size makes it perfect for smaller gardens, mixed borders, and container cultivation. The bushy growth and erect, upright habit creates an attractive plant structure that supports the abundant flower clusters effectively.
Exceptional Disease Resistance
One of 'Meteor's' greatest strengths lies in its outstanding health and vigour. The disease-resistant foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season, requiring minimal intervention from gardeners. This repeat-flowering rosette wonder has excellent disease resistance, glossy dark green leaves that stay healthy even in challenging conditions.
This natural disease resistance means less time spent on treatments and more time enjoying the spectacular blooms, making 'Meteor' an excellent choice for organic gardeners and those seeking low-maintenance roses.
Continuous Flowering Performance
'Meteor' flowers throughout the season, providing months of uninterrupted colour from early summer until the first autumn frosts. This Floribunda variety boasts an abundance of double bloomed brassy-yellow and copper-red flowers, which repeatedly grow from the start of summer, right through to the end of the growing season.
The repeat-flowering nature ensures that gardeners can enjoy successive waves of blooms, with deadheading encouraging fresh flushes of flowers throughout the season.
Growing Conditions and Care
Rose 'Meteor' thrives in full sun positions where it can develop its most vibrant colours and maintain its compact, healthy growth. The rose adapts well to most garden soils provided they are well-drained and reasonably fertile. Regular watering during dry spells and annual feeding with a balanced rose fertiliser will support optimal performance.
Pruning requirements are minimal due to the compact growth habit, with light pruning in late winter or early spring sufficient to maintain shape and encourage vigorous new growth. Regular deadheading will promote continuous flowering and keep the plant looking tidy.
Garden Applications
The compact size and outstanding performance of 'Meteor' make it suitable for numerous garden situations. Its moderate height makes it perfect for front to middle border positions, where its spectacular colour display can be fully appreciated. Suitable for both pots and borders, this versatile rose adapts well to container cultivation for patios, terraces, and smaller gardens.
The upright, bushy growth habit makes 'Meteor' excellent for creating low hedges or mass plantings, whilst single specimens provide stunning focal points in mixed borders. The flowers make excellent cut flowers for indoor arrangements, bringing the rose's beauty and light fragrance indoors.
Container Growing
'Meteor' performs exceptionally well in containers, making it an ideal choice for patio gardens, balconies, and small spaces. Use large pots with excellent drainage and high-quality John Innes No. 3 compost for best results. Container-grown plants will require more regular watering and feeding than those planted in open ground, but the compact growth habit makes maintenance straightforward.
Companion Planting
The golden-yellow to copper-red blooms of 'Meteor' work beautifully with a wide range of companion plants. For harmonious colour combinations, pair with purple or blue perennials such as lavender, salvia, or catmint. Silver-foliaged plants like artemisia or santolina provide elegant contrast whilst enhancing the warm tones of the flowers.
For cottage garden schemes, combine with complementary roses in warm tones or soft-coloured perennials that won't compete with 'Meteor's' spectacular colour display.
Awards and Recognition
The ultimate recognition of 'Meteor's' exceptional quality came with its selection as Rose of the year 2024. This prestigious award reflects the variety's outstanding combination of beauty, performance, and garden worthiness as judged by industry experts.
Why Choose Rose 'Meteor'?
Rose 'Meteor' represents the pinnacle of modern floribunda breeding, combining spectacular colour-changing blooms with exceptional garden performance. Its compact size, excellent disease resistance, and continuous flowering make it perfect for contemporary gardens where space is often limited but impact is essential.
Whether you're a novice gardener seeking a reliable, beautiful rose or an experienced enthusiast looking for the latest award-winning variety, 'Meteor' delivers outstanding results with minimal effort. Its adaptability to both borders and containers, combined with its stunning visual impact, makes it an investment in years of garden pleasure and a rose that truly lives up to its award-winning reputation.
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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