Rose 'Orange Sensation' - Floribunda Rose
A magnificent award-winning Floribunda rose that produces an abundance of large, semi-double blooms in brilliant orange-red, combining exceptional colour intensity with outstanding fragrance and continuous flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous Floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 80cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Brilliant orange-red
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Bushy, compact, vigorous-growing
- Flower Type: Large, semi-double blooms in clusters
- Awards: Gold Medal Winner, Royal National Rose Society
Overview
Rose 'Orange Sensation' is a truly outstanding Floribunda rose that exemplifies the pinnacle of orange rose breeding, winning the prestigious Royal National Rose Society Gold Medal for its exceptional performance. This distinguished variety, bred by Georges Delbard, produces magnificent large semi-double blooms in brilliant orange-red that create spectacular displays throughout the growing season. The most striking feature is its exceptional combination of vibrant colour intensity with delightful medium fragrance, complemented by matt dark green foliage that provides perfect contrast to the vivid blooms. With outstanding health, compact bushy growth habit, and continuous repeat flowering performance from early summer to autumn, this rose represents one of the finest examples of contemporary orange Floribunda roses for modern gardens. Each cluster of blooms creates substantial visual impact whilst maintaining excellent cut flower potential with sensual red-orange colouring that brightens any setting.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Orange Sensation' lies in its large semi-double blooms that showcase spectacular colour intensity with substantial visual impact displayed in abundant clusters. Each bloom displays brilliant orange-red colouring with remarkable vibrancy and depth, creating dramatic displays that command attention throughout the garden. The flowers combine rich orange tones with red highlights, creating sophisticated colour combinations that add warmth and energy to the garden display. The semi-double flower form with generous clustering, combined with continuous flowering habit, medium fragrance, and excellent cut flower qualities makes this rose suitable for a wide range of garden applications, from formal displays to mixed borders and cutting gardens.
Growth Characteristics
This Floribunda rose displays a naturally compact, bushy growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for modern garden applications and bedding displays. The plant develops into a strong, well-proportioned specimen with excellent branching structure and vigorous performance. The compact yet robust nature ensures reliable flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, manageable size perfect for contemporary gardens. The bushy growth habit makes it ideal for front to mid-border positions, formal bedding schemes, or positioning where its spectacular beauty and vibrant colour can be fully appreciated. The strong stems provide excellent support for the abundant clusters of blooms, making this variety particularly suitable for both garden display and cut flower production.
Flowering Performance
From early summer through to autumn, 'Orange Sensation' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the growing season. The plant produces magnificent large semi-double blooms held in clusters, creating substantial visual impact with continuous flowering from late spring into mid-autumn. The flowers showcase brilliant orange-red colouring with excellent colour retention, creating ongoing visual interest and spectacular vibrancy. The repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous colour throughout the growing season, with the abundant blooms providing a showstopping display that captures attention with its vivid colours and delightful fragrance. The extended flowering period provides valuable long-season garden interest and excellent cutting potential.
Growing Conditions
'Orange Sensation' thrives in full sun positions with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained 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 including acid, alkaline, and neutral conditions, providing adequate drainage is maintained. 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 including south, west, and east-facing aspects, tolerating both exposed and sheltered conditions.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
This rose demonstrates excellent hardiness suitable for growing throughout the UK, being fully hardy (H6 rating) and showing good tolerance of typical British weather conditions. 'Orange Sensation' displays good disease resistance, which helps reduce maintenance requirements and ensures reliable growth throughout the season. The healthy, matt dark green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with proper care, showing natural resistance to common rose diseases when grown in suitable conditions. This disease resistance makes it a suitable choice for gardeners seeking reliable performance with spectacular colour, particularly when combined with appropriate care and garden hygiene practices.
Care and Maintenance
'Orange Sensation' requires standard rose maintenance to maintain optimal health and flowering performance, making it suitable for gardeners seeking vibrant colour with reliable cultivation. Apply a balanced fertiliser and mulch in late winter or early spring, followed by another application of rose 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. Standard rose care practices ensure this variety maintains good health and performance. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and prolongs the spectacular display, whilst proper pruning in late winter maintains the compact shape and promotes vigorous new growth with abundant orange blooms.
Garden Applications
'Orange Sensation' excels in formal bedding schemes where its vibrant colour and continuous flowering provide exceptional impact. The compact bushy growth habit makes it ideal for front to mid-border positions, formal rose gardens, and mass plantings where its spectacular beauty can create dramatic displays. The brilliant orange-red flowers suit both contemporary and traditional garden settings perfectly, whilst the manageable size makes it excellent for group plantings or specimen displays. The rose works beautifully in hot-coloured borders, creating impressive displays that combine visual drama with sophisticated colour intensity. The continuous flowering makes it particularly suitable for gardens requiring consistent bold colour throughout the season.
Container Growing
The compact growth habit and excellent colour make 'Orange Sensation' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios and areas where vibrant impact is desired. The rose thrives in large containers on balconies, terraces, and areas where soil conditions are challenging, making it perfect for urban gardening applications and dramatic 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 attractive whilst delivering exceptional flowering performance and brilliant colour throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Orange Sensation' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, healthy, matt dark green foliage and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The extended flowering season from early summer to autumn ensures months of vibrant colour and dramatic interest, with the orange-red blooms creating spectacular displays that showcase remarkable consistency. The healthy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the spectacular vibrant flowers. Even in winter, the strong branching structure provides architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering and brilliant colour.
Cut Flower Value
The exceptional cut flower value of 'Orange Sensation' makes it outstanding for indoor arrangements and vibrant floral displays. The large semi-double blooms provide excellent longevity when cut, with the substantial size and brilliant colouring making them perfect for both formal and contemporary arrangements. The continuous blooming habit from early summer to autumn makes this rose invaluable for cutting gardens, providing abundant bright flowers throughout the growing season. The sturdy stems and long-lasting blooms make it particularly suitable for special occasions and dramatic arrangements, whilst the medium fragrance adds sensory appeal to indoor displays that brighten any room setting.
Fragrance Profile
'Orange Sensation' features a delightful medium fragrance that enhances its spectacular visual display with sensory appeal. The pleasant scent provides lovely garden ambience whilst complementing the magnificent blooms and vibrant colouring. This balanced approach to fragrance makes it particularly suitable for mixed plantings and areas where both visual impact and scent are desired, creating harmonious combinations that appeal to multiple senses throughout the garden.
Wildlife and Pollinator Value
The wildlife value of 'Orange Sensation' makes it beneficial for supporting local ecosystems and pollinator-friendly gardens. The semi-double flower form provides good access to nectar and pollen for beneficial insects throughout the extended flowering season. The continuous blooming habit from early summer to autumn makes this rose valuable for wildlife-friendly gardens, supporting pollinator populations throughout the growing season. The abundant clusters and bright orange colouring make it particularly attractive to bees and butterflies whilst providing ongoing ecological benefits.
Companion Planting
The brilliant orange-red colours of 'Orange Sensation' provide excellent opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants that enhance its dramatic impact. The vibrant orange tones work beautifully with deep blue and purple flowers, creating complementary displays that highlight the rose's spectacular colouring. The rose pairs exceptionally well with bronze and copper-coloured foliage plants, creating sophisticated tonal combinations. Yellow flowers create warm harmonious displays, whilst cream and white flowers provide fresh contrasts. The compact habit makes it suitable for planting with lower-growing perennials and annuals, creating layered displays that maximise the dramatic visual impact.
Award Recognition and Heritage
'Orange Sensation' has received the prestigious Royal National Rose Society Gold Medal, providing confidence in its exceptional garden performance and outstanding flower quality. This recognition marks this variety as one of exceptional merit, combining stunning vibrant beauty with outstanding garden performance that meets the highest standards for both visual appeal and reliable cultivation.
Breeding Excellence and Innovation
Bred by renowned rose breeder Georges Delbard, 'Orange Sensation' represents excellent Floribunda rose breeding that combines spectacular colour intensity with reliable garden performance. The breeding programme successfully created a variety that demonstrates good disease resistance, continuous flowering habit, and brilliant orange colouring that sets it apart from conventional roses. This breeding approach ensures reliable performance whilst delivering the spectacular visual impact that makes this rose truly special for vibrant garden displays.
Unique Colour Intensity
The most distinctive feature of 'Orange Sensation' is its spectacular brilliant orange-red colouring with remarkable vibrancy and depth that creates showstopping visual impact. This characteristic creates flowers that are instantly recognisable and remarkably striking throughout their development. The colour intensity adds drama and energy to the blooms whilst creating a focal point that captures attention and provides consistent impact throughout the flowering season.
Continuous Bloom Performance
The exceptional continuous flowering habit of 'Orange Sensation' ensures that gardens remain brilliantly colourful from early summer through to autumn. The ability to produce flowers consistently throughout this extended period makes it invaluable for maintaining vibrant garden interest and dramatic colour displays. This reliable performance makes it particularly suitable for situations where consistent bold colour and visual impact are required throughout the growing season.
Why Choose 'Orange Sensation'?
Rose 'Orange Sensation' represents the perfect combination of award-winning beauty, exceptional colour intensity, and outstanding garden performance. The large semi-double blooms with their brilliant orange-red colouring provide continuous flowering displays from early summer through to autumn, whilst the good disease resistance ensures reliable growth with standard rose care. The compact, bushy growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from formal bedding schemes to mixed borders and container cultivation. Whether grown for its spectacular vibrant blooms, exceptional cut flower value, or as a stunning Gold Medal winner, this outstanding rose offers exceptional visual and practical value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and brilliant colour displays.
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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