Rose 'Peach Melba' - Climbing Rose
An award-winning compact climbing rose producing abundant medium-sized blooms in stunning apricot and peach tones with delicate fragrance, complemented by glossy dark green foliage, moderate climbing growth, and excellent repeat flowering performance, making it perfect for small walls, fences, pillars, and container displays.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous climbing rose
- Eventual Height: 2m
- Eventual Spread: 1.5m
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Apricot and peach with coral-pink edges
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, bushy-erect climbing growth with flexible branches
- Flower Type: Medium-sized cup-shaped double blooms measuring 8cm (3 inches)
- Fragrance: Light, spicy and delicate fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Peach Melba' stands as one of the most celebrated climbing performers, producing abundant spectacular blooms that showcase extraordinary apricot and peach colouring with delicate fragrance intensity. This exceptional award-winning variety creates memorable garden displays with its medium-sized cup-shaped flowers that display perfect double form, where each bloom features incredible apricot tones with coral-pink edges and outer petals that create stunning visual effects throughout the extended flowering season. The distinctive dessert-inspired colouring makes this rose particularly outstanding among climbing plantings, representing elegance and garden charm. The flowers are produced continually from June through September with very floriferous displays, with this remarkable variety bred by Kordes in 2018 offering exceptional disease resistance and compact climbing habit. The light spicy fragrance complements the extraordinary visual appeal, creating outstanding garden experiences that enhance both traditional garden settings and contemporary landscape designs with exceptional climbing performance and reliable flowering.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Peach Melba' lies in its abundant medium-sized blooms that showcase perfect cup-shaped double form with exceptional disease resistance and substantial climbing presence. Each flower displays well-formed structure measuring 8cm in diameter with stunning apricot and peachy-pink hues enhanced by coral-pink edges, creating blooms of remarkable visual beauty and old-fashioned allure. The extraordinary colour palette inspired by the famous dessert provides distinctive displays that maintain their intensity throughout the flowering season, creating dynamic colour impact that symbolises elegance and garden sophistication. The flowers are produced prolifically in charming clusters with repeat flowering from early summer through autumn, blooming continually with excellent heat and rain tolerance. The light spicy fragrance with delicate aromatic appeal complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both climbing applications and everyday garden enjoyment with exceptional climbing versatility and aromatic charm.
Growth Characteristics
The strong flexible climbing branches provide excellent support for the abundant medium flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for compact climbing applications where moderate height and flower presentation are crucial. The glossy dark green leathery foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the apricot and peach bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent appearance and vigour. The bushy-erect climbing growth with flexible branches ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial vertical impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from small walls and fences to pillars and containers, with the compact climbing habit making it suitable for smaller gardens where its exceptional colour and charm can be fully appreciated whilst adding elegance and sophistication to any landscape.
Flowering Performance
From June through to September, 'Peach Melba' delivers exceptional flowering displays with excellent repeat flowering that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant is very floriferous, creating substantial visual and aromatic impact with outstanding performance that ensures ongoing garden beauty. The individual blooms develop with perfect cup-shaped double form, allowing gardeners to appreciate the stunning apricot and peach colour with coral-pink edges and delicate fragrance, whilst the well-formed shape ensures each flower maintains its beautiful appearance and colour intensity for extended periods. The free-flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the ongoing apricot and peach blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their distinctive dessert-inspired colour palette and light spicy fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Peach Melba' thrives in full sun with fertile, well-amended, moist but well-drained soil including clay, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance and colour development. The rose adapts well to various conditions with excellent heat and rain tolerance, responding excellently to appropriate climbing support where the stunning apricot and peach colours and delicate fragrance can be fully appreciated. For best results, provide climbing support in open sunny positions with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the vigorous flowering and outstanding foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard climbing rose care practices, whilst the compact climbing habit makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from small walls and fences to pillars and large containers where its award-winning qualities and exceptional disease resistance can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Peach Melba' demonstrates excellent hardiness characteristics with exceptional disease resistance in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with superior natural resistance to common rose ailments including blackspot, mildew, and rust. The variety shows reliable winter hardiness with high resistance to diseases, making it highly reliable for gardeners seeking dependable climbing plantings with minimal intervention. The glossy dark green leathery foliage remains vigorous with exceptional disease resistance, making it an outstanding choice for gardeners seeking reliable award-winning climbing plantings with manageable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature with compact climbing ability ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable colour development and flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Care and Maintenance
'Peach Melba' requires standard climbing rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and colour intensity, though its exceptional disease resistance makes care significantly easier than many climbing varieties. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular deep watering during dry periods to support the climbing growth and abundant flower production. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention beyond standard care practices, making it particularly suitable for gardeners seeking reliable climbing plantings with reduced maintenance. Regular deadheading after flowering maintains the spectacular display and encourages continued blooming throughout the season, whilst annual pruning and training maintains the compact climbing shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and colour development.
Garden Applications
'Peach Melba' excels in compact climbing displays and elegant garden features where its award-winning significance and exceptional performance can be fully appreciated. The apricot and peach colour with coral-pink edges makes it ideal for sophisticated climbing gardens, elegant displays, and charming vertical landscapes where refined colour impact and climbing performance are essential. Perfect for adorning small walls, fences, pillars, or growing in large containers, this rose provides outstanding climbing coverage with moderate growth and excellent flowering that enhances vertical structures with dessert-inspired colour and delicate fragrance for elegant and sophisticated displays. The compact climbing growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating refined focal points on various vertical supports, whilst the climbing habit ensures it provides impressive coverage in diverse garden settings where its exceptional colour qualities create maximum elegant impact.
Container Growing
The compact climbing growth makes 'Peach Melba' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation in large containers with climbing support for patios, terraces, and elegant vertical displays. The rose thrives in substantial containers where its apricot and peach bloom colours and delicate fragrance can create sophisticated climbing focal points and elegant displays, making it perfect for outdoor living areas and contemporary presentations where refined colour enhances the garden experience. Choose containers at least 50cm wide and deep with excellent drainage and appropriate climbing support, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require regular watering and feeding with support structures, but the exceptional disease resistance, award-winning qualities, and elegant displays make this worthwhile for special sophisticated climbing plantings and refined garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Peach Melba' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous apricot and peach colour and outstanding fragrance performance. Spring brings the emergence of glossy dark green leathery foliage and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main elegant flowering display. The spectacular apricot and peach blooms from June through September provide months of dessert-inspired colour combined with light spicy fragrance that maintains charm throughout the season, creating consistent elegant climbing impact. The attractive glossy foliage remains healthy throughout the season with exceptional disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the climbing flower displays, whilst the compact climbing structure provides attractive architectural interest and vertical coverage during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Peach Melba' features light spicy fragrance with delicate aromatic appeal that complements the elegant visual display and enhances the sophisticated garden experience. The lovely delicate fragrant intensity adds aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for climbing fragrance gardens where both visual climbing impact and subtle aromatic interest are desired for elegant vertical displays. The light spicy fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for climbing areas where delicate scent contributes to the refined garden experience, particularly during evening garden enjoyment when the gentle climbing perfume creates lasting elegant impressions and adds sophistication to vertical garden spaces.
Companion Planting
The apricot and peach colouring with coral-pink edges of 'Peach Melba' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The warm apricot and peach tones work beautifully with purple and blue flowers for elegant contrast that highlights both the refined qualities and climbing sophistication, whilst silver and grey foliage plants complement the warm tones effectively. White and cream flowers provide harmonious displays that allow the dessert-inspired hues to shine, whilst the light spicy fragrance makes it suitable for planting near other aromatic plants that enhance the garden's climbing elegant atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Award-Winning Excellence
One of the most valued features of 'Peach Melba' is its exceptional award-winning heritage, including Rose of the Year 2023 and ADR (Algemeine Deutsche Rosenneuheitenprüfung) 2019, representing outstanding achievements in modern climbing rose breeding. This exceptional variety bred by Kordes and introduced in 2018 with the cultivar name 'Kormelpea' symbolises excellence in compact climbing development and garden distinction. The award-winning significance combined with exceptional climbing performance, extraordinary disease resistance, and elegant colour makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking climbing roses with both meaningful recognition and practical excellence for sophisticated climbing garden themes and elegant vertical landscape applications where heritage and climbing performance quality are valued.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Peach Melba' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring elegant climbing beauty indoors for special occasions and sophisticated arrangements. The strong flexible stems, abundant medium cup-shaped blooms with stunning apricot and peach colouring with coral-pink edges, and light spicy fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst filling spaces with delicate aromatic intensity. The very floriferous nature from June through September ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining climbing displays, making it ideal for both climbing garden beauty and exceptional elegant arrangements that provide sophisticated statements for indoor spaces and special celebrations with excellent vase life and charming fragrance.
Climbing Support and Training
The compact climbing habit of 'Peach Melba' with flexible branches requires appropriate support and training to achieve optimal climbing performance and flowering displays. Provide suitable horizontal wires, trellis systems, or climbing frameworks that can support the moderate growth whilst allowing good air circulation around the climbing stems. The flexible branches make training easier, and the compact habit makes it suitable for smaller climbing supports including pillars, small walls, and container growing with appropriate support. The bushy-erect growth nature makes it ideal for various vertical structures where proper support enables the climbing stems to display their full potential with abundant flowering and elegant colour.
Pollinator and Wildlife Value
'Peach Melba' provides exceptional value for pollinators and beneficial insects, with its cup-shaped blooms being particularly attractive to bees and other pollinators. The abundant flowering from June through September ensures a long season of nectar and pollen availability, making this rose an excellent choice for wildlife-friendly gardens. The open flower form and accessible pollen make it especially valuable for supporting garden biodiversity whilst providing elegant climbing displays that benefit both gardeners and wildlife throughout the extended flowering season.
Why Choose 'Peach Melba'?
Rose 'Peach Melba' represents the perfect combination of award-winning excellence, elegant climbing beauty, and outstanding disease resistance. The abundant medium blooms in spectacular apricot and peach with coral-pink edges and their light spicy fragrance provide exceptional climbing displays from June through September, whilst the compact climbing growth, exceptional disease resistance, and superior garden performance ensure dependable beauty with minimal maintenance. Whether grown for sophisticated climbing gardens, elegant vertical displays, small walls and pillars, container growing, or simply for its exceptional beauty, award-winning heritage, and outstanding climbing performance, this remarkable climbing rose offers distinctive value that combines meaningful recognition with reliable climbing garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring climbing beauty that celebrates elegance and vertical garden distinction with colour sophistication and climbing performance that enhances any garden setting where refined climbing appeal, award-winning quality, and elegant climbing beauty are appreciated above all other climbing considerations.
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.
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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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