Rose 'Polar Star' - Hybrid Tea Rose (Also known as 'Tanlarpost')
An award-winning elegant hybrid tea rose producing masses of spectacular large pure white blooms with subtle cream and green depths, complemented by dark green glossy foliage, vigorous bushy growth, and good garden performance, making it perfect for sophisticated garden displays, exhibition purposes, and classic white garden schemes.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 110cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Pure white with cream and green depths
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous, bushy, and free-branching
- Flower Type: Large, fully double blooms with classic high-centred form
- Fragrance: Light to moderate fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Polar Star' stands as one of the most sophisticated white hybrid tea roses available, registered as 'Tanlarpost' and honoured with the prestigious Rose of the Year award in 1985. This exceptional variety produces masses of spectacular large pure white blooms with classic high-centred hybrid tea form that showcases remarkable elegance and pristine beauty. The striking pure white colouring is enhanced by subtle cream depths and green undertones that create sophisticated visual interest throughout the extended flowering season, whilst the light fragrance adds gentle aromatic dimension that enhances any garden setting. 'Polar Star' delivers outstanding garden performance with award-winning excellence, making it ideal for exhibition purposes, sophisticated garden displays, white garden schemes, and anywhere classic elegance with reliable performance is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Polar Star' lies in its masses of spectacular, large pure white blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional elegance and substantial presence. Each flower displays classic high-centred formation with fully double petals arranged in shapely form, creating blooms of remarkable visual impact and sophisticated garden appeal. The pure white colouring is enhanced by subtle cream depths and green undertones that provide fascinating visual interest throughout the flowering season, creating consistent colour that symbolises purity, elegance, and timeless beauty. The flowers are produced abundantly from June through October, opening from beautifully formed buds that add graceful anticipation to the garden display. The light to moderate fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both sophisticated garden themes and classical garden enjoyment.
Growth Characteristics
The strong sturdy stems provide excellent support for the abundant large flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for cutting and exhibition applications where stem strength and flower presentation are crucial. The dark green glossy foliage is produced abundantly, creating an attractive healthy backdrop that perfectly complements the pure white blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance throughout the growing season. The vigorous bushy growth with free-branching habit ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from formal borders to feature plantings.
Flowering Performance
From June through to October, 'Polar Star' delivers exceptional flowering displays with abundant repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of spectacular large white 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 high-centred formation and sophisticated colour depth, whilst the elegant shape ensures each flower maintains its pristine appearance for extended periods. The abundant flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the continuous white blooms providing ongoing focal points that brighten garden spaces with their sophisticated colour and gentle fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Polar Star' thrives in full sun to partial sun with fertile, well-amended, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance. The rose adapts well to various soil conditions and responds excellently to an open, bright aspect where the pure white colours 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 exhibition gardens.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Polar Star' demonstrates good garden hardiness and reasonable disease resistance, which supports healthy growth throughout the season. The variety shows adequate resilience to common rose diseases, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable white rose performance. The healthy dark green glossy foliage remains attractive and vigorous with proper care, making it an excellent choice for gardeners who appreciate sophisticated plantings with reasonable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal variations.
Care and Maintenance
'Polar Star' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and colour purity. 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 variety responds well to standard rose care practices, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable sophisticated plantings. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the vigorous bushy shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Polar Star' excels in sophisticated garden displays and formal white gardens where its award-winning significance and spectacular performance can be fully appreciated. The exceptional pure white blooms make it ideal for elegant gardens, wedding displays, and exhibition purposes where classic colour and reliable performance are essential. Perfect for beds and borders, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with strong stems and excellent vase life that enhance floral arrangements for special occasions and sophisticated displays. The vigorous growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating elegant displays in formal gardens, whilst the manageable size ensures it fits well into diverse garden settings from traditional borders to contemporary white garden schemes.
Container Growing
The manageable size and vigorous growth make 'Polar Star' well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and sophisticated displays. The rose thrives in large containers where its white blooms can create spectacular focal points and elegant displays, making it perfect for terraces and special presentations where sophisticated colour enhances the garden experience. Choose containers at least 40cm 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 award-winning significance make this worthwhile for special plantings and elegant garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Polar Star' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of dark green glossy foliage and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular white blooms from June through October provide months of sophisticated colour that maintains purity throughout the season, creating consistent elegant impact. The attractive foliage remains healthy throughout the season with proper care, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the vigorous bushy branching structure provides attractive architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Polar Star' features light to moderate fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the sophisticated garden experience. The gentle fragrance adds subtle aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and pleasant aromatic interest are desired for elegant arrangements. The refined scent enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where gentle fragrance contributes to the sophisticated garden experience, particularly in formal settings where subtle aromatic elements are preferred.
Companion Planting
The pure white colouring of 'Polar Star' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The white blooms work beautifully with any colour flowers for dramatic contrast that highlights both the award-winning significance and garden beauty, whilst purple, blue, and pink flowers create stunning colour combinations. Silver and grey foliage plants complement the pure tones whilst green and white variegated plants provide harmonious displays. The vigorous growth makes it suitable for planting with perennials and herbs that enhance the garden's sophisticated atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Awards
'Polar Star' represents exceptional hybrid tea breeding achievement, registered as 'Tanlarpost' and honoured with the prestigious Rose of the Year award in 1985. The variety demonstrates innovative breeding that successfully integrated sophisticated colour significance with reliable garden performance and good growing characteristics, creating a rose that satisfies both exhibition purposes and practical gardening requirements. This award-winning achievement brings together exceptional flowering abundance, vigorous growth, and meaningful pure white colour that makes this variety particularly valuable for sophisticated plantings and formal gardens.
Exhibition Excellence
One of the most valued features of 'Polar Star' is its exceptional suitability for exhibition purposes, making it uniquely valuable for competitive rose growing and show displays. The large, perfectly formed white blooms with classic high-centred shape symbolise horticultural excellence and sophisticated garden craft, whilst the abundant flowering represents the pinnacle of hybrid tea rose breeding. This exhibition significance, combined with award-winning garden performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both competitive potential and practical excellence.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Polar Star' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring sophisticated beauty indoors for special occasions and elegant arrangements. The strong stems, abundant large blooms, and light fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the sophisticated significance of the pure white colours. The vigorous flowering ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional elegant arrangements.
Why Choose 'Polar Star'?
Rose 'Polar Star' represents the perfect combination of award-winning excellence, sophisticated performance, and timeless beauty. The masses of spectacular large pure white blooms with their subtle cream and green depths provide outstanding displays from June through October, whilst the vigorous growth and reasonable hardiness ensure reliable performance with standard maintenance. Whether grown for exhibition purposes, sophisticated garden displays, white garden schemes, or simply for its exceptional beauty and elegant colour, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers proven value that combines meaningful award-winning significance with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates the finest traditions of sophisticated rose gardening 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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