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Rose 'Precious Memories' - Hybrid Tea Rose
A beautiful sentimental hybrid tea rose producing masses of delightful fully double high-centred pink blooms with deliciously fragrant 25-petalled flowers, complemented by healthy foliage, vigorous growth, and reliable repeat flowering, making it perfect for commemorative plantings, special celebrations, and meaningful garden displays.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 90cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: Early summer to first frost
- Flower Colour: Pink
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous and upright
- Flower Type: Fully double, high-centred blooms with 25 petals
- Fragrance: Deliciously fragrant
Overview
Rose 'Precious Memories' stands as the perfect commemorative rose, specifically bred to honour loved ones and mark special celebrations with meaningful beauty. This exceptional variety produces masses of delightful fully double pink blooms with classic high-centred hybrid tea form that showcases remarkable elegance and heartfelt significance. The striking pink colouring maintains its beauty throughout the extended flowering season from early summer until the first frost, creating consistent colour that symbolises love, remembrance, and cherished moments. The flowers feature 25 perfectly arranged petals that create substantial blooms of remarkable visual impact, whilst the delicious fragrance adds aromatic dimension that enhances both memorial gardens and celebratory displays. 'Precious Memories' delivers outstanding garden performance with meaningful significance, making it ideal for commemorative plantings, thoughtful gifts, and anywhere heartfelt beauty with reliable performance is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Precious Memories' lies in its masses of delightful, fully double pink blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional sentiment and substantial presence. Each flower displays classic high-centred formation with 25 beautifully arranged petals that create blooms of remarkable visual impact and meaningful garden appeal. The pink colouring provides spectacular displays that maintain their intensity throughout the flowering season, creating consistent colour that symbolises affection, remembrance, and enduring love. The flowers are produced repeatedly from early summer through to the first frost, creating continuous displays that honour special memories throughout the growing season. The delicious fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both commemorative garden themes and everyday garden enjoyment.
Growth Characteristics
The strong upright stems provide excellent support for the abundant flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for cutting and memorial applications where stem strength and flower presentation are crucial. The healthy foliage is produced abundantly, creating an attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the pink blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance throughout the growing season. The vigorous growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from borders to containers, with the manageable size making it perfect for feature plantings and commemorative displays.
Flowering Performance
From early summer through to the first frost, 'Precious Memories' delivers exceptional flowering displays with abundant repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of delightful fully double 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 meaningful colour, whilst the elegant shape ensures each flower maintains its attractive appearance for extended periods. The repeat flowering habit ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the continuous pink blooms providing ongoing focal points that brighten garden spaces with their meaningful colour and delicious fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Precious Memories' thrives in full sun with moist yet free-draining soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance. The rose responds excellently to generous incorporation of well-rotted organic matter and benefits from a handful of bonemeal to encourage strong root development. For best results, plant in sunny positions with good air circulation, ensuring the soil is prepared with plenty of 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 on patios.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Precious Memories' demonstrates good garden hardiness and reasonable disease resistance, supporting healthy growth throughout the season. The variety shows adequate resilience to common rose problems, making it suitable for gardeners seeking reliable commemorative rose performance. The healthy foliage remains attractive and vigorous with proper care, making it an excellent choice for gardeners who appreciate meaningful plantings with reasonable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal variations.
Care and Maintenance
'Precious Memories' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and meaningful displays. 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 commemorative plantings. Regular deadheading of faded flowers encourages continuous flush of fresh blooms 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
'Precious Memories' excels in commemorative garden displays and memorial gardens where its meaningful significance and spectacular performance can be fully appreciated. The delightful pink blooms make it ideal for tribute gardens, celebration plantings, and special displays where emotional significance 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 meaningful gifts. The vigorous growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating touching displays at the front of flower beds and mixed borders, whilst the manageable size ensures it fits well into diverse garden settings from traditional borders to contemporary commemorative landscapes.
Container Growing
The manageable size and vigorous growth make 'Precious Memories' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and special displays. The rose thrives in containers where its pink blooms can create spectacular focal points and meaningful displays, making it perfect for terraces and gift presentations where commemorative 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 meaningful significance make this worthwhile for special plantings and commemorative garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Precious Memories' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of healthy foliage and the first beautifully formed buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular pink blooms from early summer through to the first frost provide months of meaningful colour that maintains vibrancy throughout the season, creating consistent commemorative impact. The attractive foliage remains healthy throughout the season with proper care, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the vigorous upright branching structure provides attractive architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Precious Memories' features delicious fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the commemorative garden experience. The lovely fragrance adds exceptional 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 meaningful arrangements. The delightful scent enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where fragrance contributes to the commemorative garden experience, particularly during quiet reflection when the scent creates lasting memories.
Companion Planting
The pink colouring of 'Precious Memories' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and thoughtful colour schemes. The pink blooms work beautifully with white and cream flowers for classic contrast that highlights both the commemorative significance and garden beauty, whilst purple and blue flowers create harmonious colour combinations. Silver foliage plants complement the pink tones whilst deeper pink and rose flowers provide tonal displays. The vigorous growth makes it suitable for planting with perennials and herbs that enhance the garden's meaningful atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Significance
'Precious Memories' represents thoughtful hybrid tea breeding achievement, specifically created to celebrate special relationships and commemorate meaningful occasions. The variety demonstrates careful breeding that successfully integrated commemorative colour significance with reliable garden performance and good growing characteristics, creating a rose that satisfies both emotional garden purposes and practical gardening requirements. This meaningful breeding achievement brings together exceptional flowering abundance, vigorous growth, and significant pink colour that makes this variety particularly valuable for memorial plantings and celebration gardens.
Commemorative Significance
One of the most valued features of 'Precious Memories' is its specific purpose to commemorate loved ones and mark special celebrations, making it uniquely meaningful for memorial garden displays and gift giving. The delightful pink colours symbolise love, remembrance, and cherished memories, whilst the repeat flowering represents the continuity of special relationships and enduring affection. This commemorative significance, combined with exceptional garden performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both emotional meaning and practical excellence.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Precious Memories' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring meaningful beauty indoors for special occasions and heartfelt arrangements. The strong stems, abundant fully double blooms with 25 petals, and delicious fragrance create outstanding floral displays that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the commemorative significance of the pink colours. The repeat flowering habit ensures plenty of blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional meaningful arrangements.
Why Choose 'Precious Memories'?
Rose 'Precious Memories' represents the perfect combination of commemorative significance, exceptional performance, and heartfelt beauty. The masses of delightful fully double pink blooms with their delicious fragrance and 25-petalled form provide spectacular displays from early summer through to the first frost, whilst the vigorous growth and reliable hardiness ensure consistent performance with standard maintenance. Whether grown for memorial gardens, celebration plantings, meaningful gifts, or simply for its exceptional beauty and commemorative colour, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers unique value that combines meaningful emotional significance with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates the special relationships and cherished moments that enrich our lives 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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