Rose 'Prima Ballerina' - Hybrid Tea Rose
A graceful elegant hybrid tea rose producing abundant displays of exquisite deep pink blooms with exceptional fragrance, complemented by healthy glossy foliage, strong upright growth, and good disease resistance, making it perfect for sophisticated garden displays, formal borders, and outstanding cutting arrangements.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 100cm
- Eventual Spread: 60cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Deep rose pink
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Strong, upright and graceful
- Flower Type: Large double blooms 11cm (4.5 inches) across with perfectly formed petals
- Fragrance: Intensely strong, sweet and classic rose fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Prima Ballerina' stands as the epitome of elegant garden roses, specifically bred by the renowned Mathias Tantau in Germany and introduced in 1957 to capture the grace and poise of classical ballet with exceptional garden performance. This exceptional variety produces masses of beautiful large blooms measuring 11cm across with distinctive high-centred form that showcases remarkable purity of deep rose pink colour with velvety texture and perfect symmetry. The sophisticated colouring creates enchanting garden impact that brings timeless elegance and refined beauty throughout the extended flowering season, whilst the intensely strong sweet classic rose fragrance adds aromatic excellence that transforms any garden setting. 'Prima Ballerina' delivers outstanding garden performance with artistic sophistication, making it ideal for formal plantings, elegant displays, container cultivation, and anywhere graceful beauty with exceptional garden excellence is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Prima Ballerina' lies in its abundant displays of perfectly formed deep pink blooms that showcase flawless hybrid tea form with exceptional elegance and substantial presence. Each flower displays pure deep rose pink petals in classic high-centred shape, measuring 11cm across and creating blooms of remarkable visual impact and garden sophistication. The rich pink colouring provides spectacular displays that maintain their elegant intensity throughout the flowering season, creating consistent graceful appeal that symbolises refinement and artistic beauty. The flowers are produced continuously throughout summer and autumn, opening from beautifully formed pointed buds that add balletic anticipation to the garden display. The intensely strong sweet classic rose fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both formal 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 formal garden applications where stem strength and flower presentation are crucial. The healthy glossy foliage is produced abundantly, creating attractive dark green backdrop that perfectly complements the deep pink blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance throughout the growing season. The vigorous yet graceful growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that fits elegantly into diverse garden settings from formal borders to sophisticated containers.
Flowering Performance
From early summer through to late autumn, 'Prima Ballerina' delivers exceptional flowering displays with abundant repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of beautiful deep pink flowers continuously, creating substantial visual impact with reliable performance that ensures ongoing garden celebration. The individual blooms develop with perfect hybrid tea form, allowing gardeners to appreciate the flawless pink purity and elegant petal arrangement, whilst the high-centred form ensures each flower maintains its sophisticated appearance for extended periods. The prolific flowering nature ensures spectacular displays throughout the season, with the abundant elegant blooms providing continuous focal points that enhance garden spaces with their graceful beauty and intense fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Prima Ballerina' 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 deep pink colour 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 'Prima Ballerina' 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 glossy foliage remains attractive and vigorous with natural resilience, making it a reliable choice for gardeners seeking elegant sophisticated plantings with manageable maintenance requirements.
Care and Maintenance
'Prima Ballerina' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and deep pink 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 elegant plantings. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the graceful upright shape and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Prima Ballerina' excels in formal garden displays and sophisticated rose gardens where its elegant beauty and spectacular performance can be fully appreciated. The beautiful deep pink blooms make it ideal for formal gardens, elegant themed plantings, and sophisticated displays where graceful beauty 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 weddings, formal events, and special celebrations. The vigorous growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating refined displays in formal gardens, whilst the manageable size ensures it fits well into diverse garden settings from traditional borders to contemporary landscapes.
Container Growing
The manageable size and vigorous growth make 'Prima Ballerina' exceptionally well-suited to container cultivation for patios, balconies, and elegant displays. The rose thrives in large containers where its deep pink blooms can create spectacular focal points and sophisticated displays, making it perfect for terraces and formal occasion settings where graceful beauty 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 elegant appeal make this worthwhile for sophisticated plantings and formal garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Prima Ballerina' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous elegant colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of healthy glossy foliage and the first beautifully formed pointed buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular deep pink blooms from early summer through late autumn provide months of refined colour that maintains sophistication throughout the season, creating consistent graceful impact. The attractive glossy foliage remains healthy throughout the season with good disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the strong upright branching structure provides elegant architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Prima Ballerina' features intensely strong sweet classic rose fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the sophisticated garden experience. The powerful traditional fragrance adds exceptional aromatic appeal to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and intense aromatic interest are desired for elegant occasions. The classic rose scent enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where fragrance contributes to the refined garden experience, particularly during weddings, formal events, and sophisticated garden celebrations.
Companion Planting
The deep pink blooms of 'Prima Ballerina' provide excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The elegant deep pink colouring works beautifully with white and cream flowers for classic combinations that highlight both the formal appeal and garden sophistication, whilst purple and lavender flowers create harmonious complementary displays. Silver and grey foliage plants complement the pink tones whilst lighter pink flowers provide elegant tonal displays. The graceful growth makes it suitable for planting with perennials and herbs that enhance the garden's refined atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Innovation
'Prima Ballerina' represents exceptional hybrid tea breeding achievement by Mathias Tantau in Germany, introduced in 1957 during the golden age of rose breeding to demonstrate the perfect combination of elegant form, intense fragrance, and reliable performance. The variety demonstrates innovative breeding that successfully integrated classical beauty with vigorous growth and good health, creating a rose that satisfies both formal garden aesthetics and practical gardening requirements. The breeding achievement brings together exceptional flowering abundance, artistic appeal, and garden reliability that makes this variety particularly valuable for formal plantings and sophisticated gardens.
Balletic Elegance
One of the most valued features of 'Prima Ballerina' is its specific naming to honour the grace and poise of classical ballet, making it uniquely meaningful for sophisticated garden displays that celebrate artistic beauty. The perfectly formed deep pink blooms symbolise elegance and refined artistry, whilst the abundant flowering represents the continuing performance of garden beauty. This artistic significance, combined with exceptional garden performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both cultural meaning and outstanding garden excellence.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Prima Ballerina' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring elegant beauty indoors for weddings, formal events, and sophisticated celebrations. The strong stems, large blooms, and intense fragrance create outstanding floral arrangements that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the graceful significance of this artistically named rose. The prolific flowering ensures plenty of elegant blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional formal arrangements.
Why Choose 'Prima Ballerina'?
Rose 'Prima Ballerina' represents the perfect combination of elegant sophistication, exceptional performance, and artistic beauty. The abundant displays of beautiful deep pink blooms with their intensely strong classic rose 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 formal garden themes, wedding celebrations, sophisticated plantings, or simply for its exceptional beauty and elegant appeal, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers unique value that combines artistic significance with outstanding garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates grace and refined 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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