Rose 'Oranges and Lemons' - Floribunda Rose
A spectacular award-winning Floribunda rose that produces an abundance of fully double blooms in vibrant yellow dramatically striped and splashed with bright orange, combining exceptional novelty value with outstanding disease resistance and continuous flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous Floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 1.1m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Yellow with bright orange stripes and splashes
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Upright, arching, vigorous-growing
- Flower Type: Fully double blooms in medium-sized clusters
- Awards: Award-winning multicoloured variety
Overview
Rose 'Oranges and Lemons' is a truly outstanding Floribunda rose that exemplifies the pinnacle of novelty rose breeding, creating one of the most striking striped varieties ever produced. This distinguished variety, bred by the acclaimed McGredy Roses International and introduced in 1993, produces magnificent fully double blooms in vibrant yellow that are dramatically striped and splashed with bright orange, creating an eye-catching candy-striped effect. The most striking feature is its exceptional combination of unique colouring with excellent disease resistance, complemented by glossy dark green foliage with purple overtones that provides perfect contrast to the flamboyant blooms. With outstanding health, upright arching growth habit, and continuous repeat flowering performance from June to October, this rose represents one of the most novel examples of contemporary Floribunda roses for modern gardens. Each cluster of blooms creates substantial visual impact with light fragrance that adds subtle appeal to this showstopping variety.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Oranges and Lemons' lies in its spectacular fully double blooms that showcase unique hand-painted striping with substantial visual impact displayed in medium-sized clusters. Each bloom displays vibrant yellow colouring dramatically striped and splashed with bright orange, creating candy-striped effects that are instantly recognisable and remarkably striking. The flowers combine sunshine yellow tones with vivid orange markings, creating sophisticated contrasts that add drama and novelty to the garden display. The fully double flower form with distinctive striping, combined with continuous flowering habit, excellent disease resistance, and light fragrance makes this rose suitable for a wide range of garden applications, from novelty gardens to mixed borders and conversation piece plantings.
Growth Characteristics
This Floribunda rose displays a naturally upright, arching growth habit that makes it exceptionally suitable for prominent garden positions and specimen displays. The plant develops into a strong, well-proportioned specimen with excellent branching structure and vigorous performance. The upright yet arching nature ensures reliable flowering whilst maintaining an attractive, substantial size perfect for contemporary gardens. The vigorous growth habit makes it ideal for back of borders, specimen plantings, or positioning where its spectacular beauty and unique colouring can be fully appreciated. The robust 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 June through to October, 'Oranges and Lemons' delivers an exceptional flowering display that continues consistently throughout the growing season. The plant produces magnificent fully double blooms held in medium-sized clusters, creating substantial visual impact with continuous flowering from early summer into mid-autumn. The flowers showcase vibrant yellow colouring with dramatic orange stripes and splashes that vary in intensity, creating ongoing visual interest and spectacular novelty. The repeat-flowering nature ensures continuous colour and drama throughout the growing season, with the abundant blooms providing a showstopping display that captures attention with its unique colouring and light fragrance. The extended flowering period provides valuable long-season garden interest and exceptional conversation value.
Growing Conditions
'Oranges and Lemons' 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 exceptional hardiness suitable for growing throughout the UK, being fully hardy (H6 rating) and showing excellent tolerance of typical British weather conditions. One of the most notable features of 'Oranges and Lemons' is its excellent disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The healthy, glossy, dark green foliage with purple overtones 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 spectacular novelty appeal.
Care and Maintenance
'Oranges and Lemons' requires minimal maintenance to maintain optimal health and flowering performance, making it ideal for busy gardeners and those seeking dramatic novelty with easy care. 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. 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 proper pruning in late winter maintains the upright shape and promotes vigorous new growth with abundant striped blooms.
Garden Applications
'Oranges and Lemons' excels in mixed borders where its unique striping and continuous flowering provide exceptional focal point value. The upright arching growth habit makes it ideal for specimen plantings, novelty gardens, and positions where its spectacular beauty can be appreciated as a conversation piece. The striped flowers suit both contemporary and eclectic garden settings perfectly, whilst the substantial size makes it excellent for positioning where dramatic colour contrast is desired. The rose works beautifully as a focal point against contrasting backgrounds, creating impressive displays that combine visual drama with unique novelty appeal. The continuous flowering makes it particularly suitable for gardens requiring consistent bold impact throughout the season.
Container Growing
The robust growth habit and excellent disease resistance make 'Oranges and Lemons' well-suited to container cultivation for patios and areas where its novelty value can be fully appreciated. 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 60cm 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 upright habit means they remain attractive whilst delivering exceptional flowering performance and unique visual appeal throughout the season.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Oranges and Lemons' provides continuous interest that evolves beautifully with the months. Spring brings the emergence of fresh, healthy, glossy dark green foliage with purple overtones and the first flower buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The extended flowering season from June to October ensures months of dramatic colour and novelty interest, with the striped blooms creating spectacular displays that showcase remarkable consistency. The healthy foliage remains attractive throughout the season, providing an excellent backdrop for the spectacular striped flowers. Even in winter, the strong branching structure provides architectural interest whilst promising another year of spectacular flowering and unique appeal.
Cut Flower Value
The exceptional cut flower value of 'Oranges and Lemons' makes it outstanding for indoor arrangements and novelty floral displays. The fully double blooms with unique striping provide good longevity when cut, with the substantial size and dramatic colouring making them perfect for contemporary and artistic arrangements. The continuous blooming habit from June to October makes this rose invaluable for cutting gardens, providing abundant distinctive flowers throughout the growing season. The sturdy stems and striking blooms make it particularly suitable for special occasions and conversation piece arrangements, whilst the light fragrance adds subtle appeal to indoor displays without overwhelming the visual impact.
Fragrance Profile
'Oranges and Lemons' features a light, subtle fragrance that complements its spectacular visual display without competing with the dramatic striped colouring. The gentle scent provides pleasant garden ambience whilst allowing the magnificent blooms and unique striping to take centre stage. This balanced approach to fragrance makes it particularly suitable for mixed plantings where the focus is on visual drama and novelty appeal, whilst the natural scent provides gentle enhancement to the garden atmosphere.
Wildlife and Pollinator Value
The wildlife value of 'Oranges and Lemons' makes it beneficial for supporting local ecosystems and pollinator-friendly gardens. The fully double flower form provides some access to nectar and pollen for beneficial insects throughout the extended flowering season. The continuous blooming habit from June to October makes this rose valuable for wildlife-friendly gardens, supporting pollinator populations throughout the growing season. The abundant clusters and bright colouring make it particularly attractive to garden visitors whilst providing ongoing ecological benefits.
Companion Planting
The unique striped colours of 'Oranges and Lemons' provide excellent opportunities for companion planting with a wide range of garden plants that enhance its dramatic impact. The vibrant yellow and orange tones work beautifully with deep blue and purple flowers, creating complementary displays that highlight the rose's striking colouring. The rose pairs exceptionally well with plants that have contrasting solid colours, creating sophisticated displays that emphasise the novelty of the striped blooms. White flowers provide fresh contrasts, whilst green foliage plants create calm backdrops. The upright 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
'Oranges and Lemons' has received recognition as an award-winning multicoloured variety, providing confidence in its exceptional garden performance and outstanding novelty value. This recognition marks this variety as one of exceptional merit, combining stunning unique beauty with outstanding garden performance that meets high standards for both visual appeal and reliable cultivation.
Breeding Excellence and Innovation
Bred by renowned rose breeder McGredy Roses International and introduced in 1993, 'Oranges and Lemons' represents cutting-edge Floribunda rose breeding that combines spectacular novelty colouring with modern garden performance. The breeding programme successfully created a variety that demonstrates excellent disease resistance, continuous flowering habit, and unique hand-painted striping that sets it apart from all conventional roses. This innovative breeding approach ensures reliable performance whilst delivering the spectacular visual impact that makes this rose truly special for contemporary garden applications.
Unique Hand-Painted Striping
The most distinctive feature of 'Oranges and Lemons' is its spectacular hand-painted effect with yellow petals dramatically striped and splashed with bright orange, creating unique candy-striped patterns that vary on each bloom. This characteristic creates flowers that are instantly recognisable and remarkably striking throughout their development. The striping adds extraordinary novelty and sophistication to the blooms whilst creating a focal point that captures attention and provides ongoing conversation value throughout the flowering season.
Continuous Bloom Performance
The exceptional continuous flowering habit of 'Oranges and Lemons' ensures that gardens remain dramatically colourful and novel from early summer through to mid-autumn. The ability to produce flowers continuously throughout this extended period makes it invaluable for maintaining consistent garden interest and novelty appeal. This reliable performance makes it particularly suitable for situations where consistent bold colour and unique visual impact are required throughout the growing season.
Why Choose 'Oranges and Lemons'?
Rose 'Oranges and Lemons' represents the perfect combination of award-winning novelty, exceptional disease resistance, and outstanding garden performance. The fully double blooms with their unique yellow and orange striping provide continuous flowering displays from June through to October, whilst the excellent disease resistance ensures healthy growth with minimal maintenance. The upright, arching growth habit makes it suitable for gardens of all sizes, from specimen plantings to mixed borders and container cultivation. Whether grown for its spectacular striped blooms, exceptional novelty value, or as a stunning conversation piece, this innovative rose offers outstanding visual and practical value that will provide years of gardening pleasure and unique garden interest.
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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