Rose 'Piccadilly' - Hybrid Tea Rose
A vibrant classic hybrid tea rose producing abundant displays of striking bicoloured blooms in bright yellow with scarlet-red edges and moderate fragrance, complemented by healthy bronze-tinted foliage, strong upright growth, and good disease resistance, making it perfect for contemporary garden displays, colourful borders, and outstanding cutting arrangements.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 1m
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Bright yellow with scarlet-red edges
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Strong, upright and bushy
- Flower Type: Large double blooms 11cm (4.5 inches) across with well-formed petals
- Fragrance: Moderate, sweet and slightly spicy fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Piccadilly' stands as the perfect vibrant garden rose, specifically bred by the acclaimed Sam McGredy IV in Northern Ireland and introduced in 1960 to capture the energy and excitement of London's famous entertainment district. This exceptional variety produces masses of spectacular large blooms measuring 11cm across with distinctive high-centred form that showcases remarkable colour combinations of bright golden yellow petals dramatically edged with vivid scarlet-red. The dynamic colouring creates eye-catching garden impact that brings energy and excitement throughout the extended flowering season, whilst the moderate sweet and slightly spicy fragrance adds aromatic interest that enhances any garden setting. 'Piccadilly' delivers outstanding garden performance with contemporary appeal, making it ideal for modern plantings, colourful displays, container cultivation, and anywhere vibrant beauty with exceptional garden excellence is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Piccadilly' lies in its abundant displays of brilliantly coloured blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional colour contrast and substantial presence. Each flower displays distinctive bright yellow petals dramatically edged with scarlet-red in classic high-centred shape, measuring 11cm across and creating blooms of remarkable visual impact and garden drama. The vibrant bicolour effect provides spectacular displays that intensify throughout the flowering season, creating consistent dynamic appeal that symbolises energy and contemporary garden style. The flowers are produced continuously throughout summer and autumn, opening from beautifully formed pointed buds that add colourful anticipation to the garden display. The moderate sweet and slightly spicy fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both contemporary garden themes and everyday garden enjoyment.
Growth Characteristics
The strong upright stems provide excellent support for the abundant large flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for cutting and contemporary garden applications where stem strength and flower presentation are crucial. The healthy bronze-tinted foliage is produced abundantly, creating attractive glossy backdrop that perfectly complements the vibrant bicoloured blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance throughout the growing season. The vigorous yet manageable growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from modern borders to contemporary containers.
Flowering Performance
From early summer through to late autumn, 'Piccadilly' delivers exceptional flowering displays with abundant repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of brilliant bicoloured flowers continuously, creating substantial visual impact with reliable performance that ensures ongoing garden celebration. The individual blooms develop with classic hybrid tea form, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect colour contrast and vibrant petal arrangement, whilst the high-centred form ensures each flower maintains its striking appearance for extended periods. The prolific flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the abundant colourful blooms providing continuous focal points that energise garden spaces with their vibrant beauty and moderate fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Piccadilly' thrives in full sun to partial sun with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance. The rose adapts well to moderately fertile soils and responds excellently to an open, bright aspect where the vibrant bicolour can be fully appreciated. For best results, plant in sunny positions with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the vigorous flowering and healthy foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard rose care practices, whilst the manageable size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from beds and borders to container cultivation.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
One of the most notable features of 'Piccadilly' is its good disease resistance, which significantly reduces maintenance requirements and ensures healthy growth throughout the season. The variety demonstrates reasonable resistance to common rose diseases such as blackspot and powdery mildew, though benefits from good air circulation and regular monitoring. The healthy bronze-tinted foliage remains attractive and vigorous with natural resilience, making it a reliable choice for gardeners seeking vibrant contemporary plantings with manageable maintenance requirements.
Care and Maintenance
'Piccadilly' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and vibrant colour intensity. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular deep watering during dry periods to support the vigorous growth and abundant flower production. The good disease resistance means this variety requires standard care practices with occasional preventative treatments, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable colourful plantings. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the vigorous upright shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Piccadilly' excels in contemporary garden displays and vibrant rose gardens where its dynamic colours and spectacular performance can be fully appreciated. The brilliant bicoloured blooms make it ideal for modern gardens, energetic themed plantings, and colourful displays where vibrant beauty and reliable performance are essential. Perfect for beds and borders, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with strong stems and good vase life that enhance floral arrangements for celebrations and cheerful occasions. The vigorous growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating dynamic displays in contemporary gardens, whilst the manageable size ensures it fits well into diverse garden settings from modern borders to urban landscapes.
Container Growing
The manageable size and vigorous growth make 'Piccadilly' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and vibrant displays. The rose thrives in large containers where its bicoloured dynamic blooms can create spectacular focal points and energetic displays, making it perfect for urban settings and contemporary occasion areas where vibrant colour enhances the garden experience. Choose containers at least 50cm wide and deep with excellent drainage, using high-quality multipurpose compost enriched with slow-release fertiliser. Container-grown specimens require more frequent watering and feeding than ground-planted roses, but the spectacular colour displays and contemporary appeal make this worthwhile for modern plantings and vibrant garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Piccadilly' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous vibrant colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of healthy bronze-tinted foliage and the first beautifully formed pointed buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular yellow and scarlet blooms from early summer through late autumn provide months of dynamic colour that maintains intensity throughout the season, creating consistent energetic impact. The attractive bronze-tinted foliage remains healthy throughout the season with good disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the vigorous upright branching structure provides strong architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Piccadilly' features moderate sweet and slightly spicy fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the contemporary garden experience. The pleasant fragrance adds appealing aromatic interest to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and moderate aromatic appeal are desired for cheerful occasions. The sweet spicy scent enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where moderate fragrance contributes to the vibrant garden experience, particularly during celebrations, parties, and energetic garden events.
Companion Planting
The bright yellow and scarlet-red blooms of 'Piccadilly' provide excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and bold colour schemes. The vibrant bicolour works beautifully with orange and bronze flowers for hot colour combinations that highlight both the contemporary appeal and garden excitement, whilst blue and purple flowers create striking contrasting displays. Bronze and copper foliage plants complement the bicolour tones whilst white flowers provide clean contrasting displays. The vigorous growth makes it suitable for planting with bold perennials and grasses that enhance the garden's energetic atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Innovation
'Piccadilly' represents exceptional hybrid tea breeding achievement by Sam McGredy IV in Northern Ireland, introduced in 1960 during the swinging sixties era to capture the vibrant energy of contemporary culture and London's famous entertainment district. The variety demonstrates innovative breeding that successfully integrated dynamic colour combinations with reliable garden performance and good health, creating a rose that satisfies both modern garden aesthetics and practical gardening requirements. The breeding achievement brings together exceptional flowering abundance, vibrant appeal, and contemporary significance that makes this variety particularly valuable for modern plantings and energetic gardens.
Contemporary Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Piccadilly' is its specific naming after London's famous entertainment district, making it uniquely meaningful for contemporary garden displays that celebrate energy and modern culture. The brilliant bicoloured blooms symbolise excitement and vibrant living, whilst the abundant flowering represents the joy and vitality of contemporary garden style. This cultural significance, combined with exceptional garden performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both modern relevance and practical excellence.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Piccadilly' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring vibrant beauty indoors for celebrations, parties, and cheerful occasions. The strong stems, large blooms, and moderate fragrance create outstanding floral arrangements that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the energetic significance of the dynamic bicoloured beauty. The prolific flowering ensures plenty of colourful blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional contemporary arrangements.
Why Choose 'Piccadilly'?
Rose 'Piccadilly' represents the perfect combination of vibrant appeal, exceptional performance, and contemporary beauty. The abundant displays of brilliant bicoloured blooms in yellow and scarlet with their moderate sweet fragrance provide spectacular displays from early summer through late autumn, whilst the vigorous growth and good disease resistance ensure reliable performance with standard maintenance. Whether grown for contemporary garden themes, celebration plantings, urban gardens, or simply for its exceptional beauty and energetic appeal, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers unique value that combines modern cultural significance with outstanding garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates vitality and contemporary garden style 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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