Rose 'Moment in Time' - Floribunda Rose (Also known as 'Korcastran')
A spectacular award-winning compact floribunda rose that produces abundant masses of simple, semi-double blooms in pure red with exceptional repeat flowering, excellent disease resistance, and ground cover sized growth habit, making it perfect for contemporary gardens, borders, and container cultivation.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 60cm
- Eventual Spread: 40cm
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Pure red with simple, semi-double form
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, ground cover sized, low and bushy
- Flower Type: Simple, semi-double blooms in abundant clusters
- Awards: Rose of the Year 2012
Overview
Rose 'Moment in Time' stands as one of the most celebrated compact floribunda roses of recent years, winning the prestigious Rose of the Year award in 2012 for its exceptional garden performance and outstanding visual impact. This remarkable variety produces magnificent masses of simple, semi-double flowers in pure red that almost completely hide the healthy, glossy green foliage beneath their abundant display. The genuine floribunda characteristics are perfectly adapted to ground cover proportions, rarely exceeding 60cm in height, making it ideal for contemporary garden applications where compact yet dramatic impact is required. With excellent disease resistance, exceptional repeat flowering from July through to October, and a mild but pleasant fragrance, 'Moment in Time' represents one of the finest examples of modern compact rose breeding for busy gardeners seeking maximum impact with minimal maintenance.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Moment in Time' lies in its remarkable ability to produce masses of simple, semi-double blooms that create an intense display of pure red colour throughout the growing season. Each flower displays beautifully structured, semi-double form in vibrant red that maintains excellent colour retention and weather resistance. The flowers are produced in abundant clusters that create substantial visual impact, with the masses of blooms almost hiding the glossy foliage beneath their spectacular display. The simple, semi-double form combines classic rose elegance with modern garden performance, whilst the mild fragrance provides subtle garden ambience. The exceptional flowering abundance ensures this rose delivers dramatic impact despite its compact size, making it particularly suitable for situations where maximum colour impact is required from a manageable plant size.
Growth Characteristics
This floribunda rose displays a naturally compact, ground cover sized growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for modern garden applications and contemporary landscaping. The compact yet vigorous-growing nature ensures reliable flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, manageable size perfect for contemporary gardens and small spaces. The low, bushy growth habit makes it ideal for borders, mass plantings, ground cover applications, or container cultivation where its spectacular beauty can be fully appreciated. The strong stems provide excellent support for the abundant flower clusters, making this variety particularly suitable for formal and informal garden applications where consistent low height is important.
Flowering Performance
From June through to October, 'Moment in Time' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces magnificent semi-double blooms held in abundant clusters, creating substantial visual impact with excellent repeat flowering that brightens garden spaces for months on end. The flowers showcase pure red colouring that maintains excellent colour retention, creating ongoing visual interest and vibrant elegance. The exceptional repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous colour throughout the growing season, with the masses of blooms providing a spectacular display that captures attention with its intense red colour and reliable performance. The extended flowering period makes this rose invaluable for maintaining consistent garden interest from mid-summer through to late autumn.
Growing Conditions
'Moment in Time' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, moist yet free-draining 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 providing adequate drainage is maintained and benefits from incorporation of well-rotted organic matter and bonemeal when planting to encourage strong root development. 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, tolerating both exposed and sheltered conditions. This adaptable variety succeeds in a wide range of garden situations whilst maintaining its exceptional flowering performance and vibrant colour.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
This rose demonstrates exceptional hardiness suitable for growing throughout the UK, being fully hardy and showing excellent tolerance of typical British weather conditions. One of the most notable features of 'Moment in Time' is its excellent disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The healthy, glossy green 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 dramatic visual impact.
Care and Maintenance
'Moment in Time' requires minimal maintenance to maintain optimal health and flowering performance, making it ideal for busy gardeners and contemporary garden settings. Apply a balanced rose fertiliser and mulch in late winter or early spring, followed by another application of 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 and maintains the spectacular display, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the compact shape and promotes vigorous new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Moment in Time' excels in contemporary and traditional garden settings where its continuous red flowering provides exceptional versatility and dramatic visual impact from a compact plant. The ground cover sized growth habit makes it ideal for borders, mass plantings, ground cover applications, and formal displays where its reliable performance can be appreciated. The pure red flowers suit both modern and traditional garden settings perfectly, creating vibrant displays that provide stunning focal points and complement various colour schemes. The rose works beautifully in massed plantings, creating impressive displays that provide months of continuous intense colour. The manageable size and exceptional reliability make it particularly suitable for entrance plantings, foundation gardens, and anywhere consistent dramatic colour is required from a low-growing plant.
Container Growing
The compact growth habit and excellent disease resistance make 'Moment in Time' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and small gardens. The rose thrives in large containers on 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 manageable whilst delivering exceptional flowering performance and vibrant colour throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Moment in Time' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, healthy, glossy green foliage and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The exceptional flowering season from June to October ensures months of pure red colour, with the masses of blooms creating vibrant displays that showcase remarkable consistency and colour retention. The healthy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop when visible beneath the spectacular flower display. Even in winter, the strong branching structure provides architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering.
Fragrance Profile
'Moment in Time' features a mild but pleasant fragrance that provides subtle garden ambience without overwhelming the spectacular visual display, allowing the dramatic colour impact to take centre stage. The gentle fragrance enhances the garden experience whilst remaining subtle enough to complement other fragrant plants. This makes it particularly suitable for mixed plantings and areas where the focus is on visual beauty and dramatic colour impact rather than intense fragrance. The mild scent adds to the overall appeal without dominating the garden atmosphere.
Companion Planting
The pure red colours of 'Moment in Time' provide exceptional opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants and striking colour schemes. The intense red blooms work beautifully with white and cream flowers, creating dramatic, high-contrast displays that highlight both plants. The rose pairs exceptionally well with silver and grey foliage plants, creating sophisticated combinations that enhance the red colour. Blue and purple flowers create stunning complementary displays, whilst yellow flowers provide vibrant, energetic combinations. The compact habit makes it suitable for planting with herbs, perennials, and other low-growing plants, creating layered gardens that provide continuous interest throughout the growing season.
Award Recognition and Heritage
'Moment in Time' achieved the prestigious Rose of the Year award in 2012, confirming its exceptional garden performance, outstanding reliability, and remarkable visual impact despite its compact size. This recognition reflects superior performance in diverse growing conditions and demonstrates the successful combination of dramatic flowering with manageable proportions. The Rose of the Year award is given only to roses that demonstrate excellent performance in garden conditions, marking this variety as one of exceptional merit. The award recognition confirms that this rose combines stunning beauty with outstanding garden performance that meets the highest standards for reliability, disease resistance, and visual impact.
Heritage and Innovation
Bred with the cultivar name 'Korcastran' and representing contemporary rose breeding excellence, 'Moment in Time' demonstrates the successful development of compact size combined with outstanding garden performance and dramatic visual impact. The variety represents innovative breeding that successfully integrated ground cover proportions with exceptional flowering power, creating a rose that satisfies contemporary gardening needs for maximum impact from minimum space. This breeding excellence brings unique characteristics including exceptional flowering abundance, reliable repeat performance, and outstanding garden adaptability that sets this variety apart from traditional floribunda roses.
Ground Cover Excellence
One of the most appreciated features of 'Moment in Time' is its ground cover sized proportions that deliver dramatic impact whilst maintaining manageable dimensions perfect for contemporary gardens. This characteristic makes the rose particularly suitable for modern landscaping applications where consistent low height combined with spectacular colour is required. The ground cover excellence ensures maximum impact from minimal space whilst maintaining all the benefits of traditional floribunda performance.
Masses of Blooms
The exceptional flowering abundance of 'Moment in Time' ensures that gardens receive maximum colour impact from this compact rose, with masses of blooms almost hiding the foliage beneath their spectacular display. This remarkable characteristic provides ongoing dramatic impact and ensures that the rose offers exceptional value for the space it occupies. The abundant flowering makes it particularly suitable for situations where maximum colour impact is required from compact planting areas.
Why Choose 'Moment in Time'?
Rose 'Moment in Time' represents the perfect combination of award-winning excellence, exceptional reliability, and outstanding dramatic beauty from a compact plant. The masses of pure red semi-double blooms provide continuous flowering displays from July through to November, whilst the excellent disease resistance ensures healthy growth with minimal maintenance. The ground cover sized growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from contemporary borders to container cultivation. Whether grown for its spectacular abundant red blooms, exceptional repeat flowering, or as a Rose of the Year winner, this outstanding compact rose offers exceptional value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and dependable dramatic colour impact 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.
(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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