Rose 'My Mum' – The Perfect Red Floribunda for Every Garden
A specially named and uniquely beautiful floribunda rose that makes the perfect gift for any occasion. This stunning variety produces scarlet red flowers with a distinctive pale centre and silvery reverse, creating a magnificent display that seemingly covers the whole plant. With its compact bushy growth habit, excellent disease resistance, and generous flowering performance, 'My Mum' represents the ideal combination of visual impact and garden practicality, making it perfect for both novice and experienced gardeners.
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- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: Summer through to autumn
- Flower Colour: Scarlet red with pale centre and silvery reverse
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy, well-balanced
- Foliage: Dark green, glossy leaves
- Fragrance: Light, delicate scent
- Position: Full sun preferred
- Soil Requirements: Well-drained, fertile soil
Overview
Rose 'My Mum' stands as a remarkable achievement in rose breeding, specially created to honour the special bond between mothers and their families. This exceptional floribunda combines spectacular visual appeal with outstanding garden performance, making it an ideal choice for gardeners seeking maximum impact with minimal fuss. The variety showcases the perfect balance of beauty, reliability, and compact size that modern gardens demand, whilst offering the sentimental value that makes it truly special.
Spectacular Flower Characteristics
The defining feature of 'My Mum' is its gloriously rich scarlet red blooms with their distinctive pale centre and striking silvery reverse, creating a magnificent display that captivates the senses. These medium-sized, lightly fragrant flowers are held in attractive clusters that create maximum visual impact whilst providing excellent cutting material for indoor arrangements.
Each flower displays the classic semi-double form with lovely rich scarlet red petals that maintain their vibrant colouring throughout the season. The unique pale centre combined with the silvery reverse creates a stunning two-toned effect that sets this variety apart from other red roses in the garden.
Outstanding Garden Performance
One of 'My Mum's' greatest strengths lies in its exceptional health and vigour. With excellent disease resistance, this healthy and hardy rose makes a wonderful addition to any outdoor space. The dark green, glossy foliage provides an attractive backdrop for the scarlet red blooms whilst remaining healthy throughout the growing season.
The compact and bushy growing habit ensures the rose maintains its neat form whilst supporting the abundant flower clusters effectively. This natural disease resistance means less time spent on treatments and more time enjoying the spectacular blooms.
Continuous Flowering Performance
Rose 'My Mum' flowers freely throughout the season, providing months of uninterrupted colour from summer until autumn frosts. The abundant blooms appear seemingly to cover the whole bush, ensuring successive waves of flowers throughout the growing period.
This reliable performer provides one of the longest flowering seasons of any compact rose. Regular deadheading encourages continuous production of new flower clusters, maintaining the spectacular display throughout the summer months.
Growing Conditions and Care
Rose 'My Mum' thrives in full sun positions where it can develop its most vibrant colour and maintain healthy, vigorous growth. The rose adapts well to most garden soils provided they are well-drained and reasonably fertile.
Standard rose care practices apply: annual feeding with balanced rose fertiliser, regular watering during dry periods, and light pruning in late winter to maintain the compact shape and encourage vigorous new growth. The naturally tidy growth habit means minimal pruning is required.
Versatile Garden Applications
Ideal for borders and containers, 'My Mum' offers exceptional versatility for various garden situations. Perfect for growing in the middle border or as part of mixed plantings, this floribunda also makes an excellent choice for creating a lovely low hedge.
The compact size makes it perfect for smaller gardens, whilst the spectacular colour provides maximum visual impact. The manageable size also makes it an excellent choice for those new to rose growing who want guaranteed results.
Container Growing Excellence
Ideal for use in beds, borders, pots and containers, 'My Mum' excels in container cultivation. The compact growth habit makes it perfect for patios, terraces, and urban gardens where space is limited but impact is essential.
Use appropriately sized containers with excellent drainage and high-quality compost for best results. Container-grown plants will require more regular watering and feeding but reward with the same abundant blooms and delicate fragrance as garden-planted specimens. Medium-sized containers are ideal for this variety.
Seasonal Interest and Maintenance
'My Mum' provides substantial seasonal interest with healthy, glossy foliage emerging in spring followed by the spectacular scarlet red blooms that continue through summer and autumn. The compact, well-balanced growth habit maintains its attractive form throughout the season, providing structure even between flowering periods.
The light, delicate fragrance adds another dimension to the garden experience, whilst the semi-double flower form provides reasonable access for beneficial pollinators throughout the extended flowering season.
The Perfect Gift Rose
This specially named variety makes an ideal gift for any occasion - perfect for birthdays, Mother's Day, Christmas, or simply to say 'I love you'. The living, lasting gift will bring colour and love to the garden year after year, providing a meaningful reminder of special relationships and cherished memories.
Unlike cut flowers that fade within days, this rose will burst into life each year, creating a permanent tribute that grows more beautiful with time. It's the gift that truly keeps on giving, bringing joy for years to come.
Companion Planting
The rich scarlet red blooms of 'My Mum' work beautifully with a wide range of companion plants. For elegant combinations, pair with silver foliage plants like artemisia or lamb's ear that enhance the vibrant red colouring. Purple or blue perennials such as lavender, catmint, or salvia create harmonious colour schemes.
For cottage garden appeal, combine with complementary roses or soft-coloured perennials that won't compete with the spectacular scarlet display. The compact size makes it ideal for front-of-border positions where companion plants can provide backdrop without overwhelming the rose's impact.
Why Choose Rose 'My Mum'?
Rose 'My Mum' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a meaningful rose with outstanding garden performance. Its specially chosen name, spectacular scarlet red blooms with distinctive pale centre and silvery reverse, excellent disease resistance, and compact size combine to create a variety that's both beautiful and practical. The continuous flowering from summer to autumn frosts ensures months of colour, whilst the excellent container performance makes it suitable for any garden situation.
Whether you're seeking a heartfelt gift for someone special, a reliable rose for your own garden, or a compact variety that delivers maximum impact in minimal space, 'My Mum' provides outstanding results with minimal effort. Its adaptability to both borders and containers, combined with its stunning visual impact, healthy growth habit, and sentimental value, makes it an investment in years of garden pleasure and a rose that truly celebrates the special bonds we share with those we love most.
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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