Rose 'Pure Poetry' – The Captivating Deep Magenta Hybrid Tea
A magnificent hybrid tea rose that embodies elegance and romance, crafted by the renowned German rose breeders, Rosen Tantau. This remarkable variety produces stunning, fully double, deep magenta blooms that combine the classic hybrid tea bud form with the romantic appeal of old-fashioned roses. With its robust, healthy growth habit, exceptional fragrance, and prestigious awards including The People's Choice and Tollcross Fragrance Prize, 'Pure Poetry' represents the pinnacle of modern rose breeding excellence, making it perfect for discerning gardeners who appreciate both classical beauty and contemporary performance.
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- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: June to September
- Flower Colour: Deep magenta, ruby red, luscious burgundy
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Robust, bushy, upright
- Foliage: Large, dark green, glossy, disease-resistant leaves
- Fragrance: Highly scented, sweet scented, superb old rose fragrance
- Position: Full sun preferred
- Soil Requirements: Well-drained, fertile soil
Overview
Rose 'Pure Poetry' stands as one of the most romantic and captivating achievements in modern hybrid tea breeding, earning prestigious recognition including The People's Choice Award and Tollcross Fragrance Prize at Glasgow 2013. This exceptional variety combines breathtaking visual appeal with outstanding garden performance, creating a rose that truly lives up to its poetic name. The stunning deep magenta blooms and exceptional fragrance make it an ideal choice for gardeners seeking a rose that provides both spectacular garden presence and superior cut flower performance.
Spectacular Flower Characteristics
The defining glory of 'Pure Poetry' lies in its magnificent deep magenta blooms that create one of the most striking displays in the rose world. These luscious ruby red flowers feature flower buds that have a classic hybrid tea shape, but open more in the style of old-fashioned roses. The fully double, deep magenta blooms are held above strong upright stems, creating a stunning contrast against the dark green foliage.
Each bloom displays exceptional depth of colour, described as luscious burgundy coloured with sweet scented, fully double blooms. The flowers combine the best of both worlds - the elegant bud form of hybrid teas with the romantic, full-petalled charm of heritage varieties, creating a truly unique and captivating appearance.
Exceptional Fragrance
One of 'Pure Poetry's' most celebrated features is its extraordinary fragrance, which earned it the prestigious Tollcross Fragrance Prize. The blooms are highly scented with a superb old rose fragrance that fills the air around the plant. This sweet scented perfume creates an olfactory experience that perfectly matches the visual spectacle of the deep magenta blooms, making this rose particularly valuable for positions near seating areas, pathways, or windows where the gorgeous fragrance can be fully appreciated.
Outstanding Garden Performance
'Pure Poetry' demonstrates exceptional health and vigour that matches its stunning appearance. This robust, healthy rose features large, dark green leaves that provide a stunning backdrop for the vibrant flowers, while showcasing good resistance to common diseases. The foliage has good disease resistance, ensuring the plant maintains its attractive appearance throughout the growing season.
The large, dark green, healthy foliage remains attractive even when the plant is not in flower, ensuring year-round garden structure and appeal whilst providing the perfect contrast for the deep magenta blooms.
Continuous Flowering Performance
As a repeat-flowering hybrid tea rose, 'Pure Poetry' provides excellent performance throughout the season. The sweetly-scented blooms repeat-flower through summer and autumn, ensuring months of spectacular colour and fragrance. The robust nature of this variety means it produces generous quantities of high-quality blooms on strong stems, making it excellent for both garden display and cut flower arrangements.
The strong upright stems and excellent vase life make this variety particularly valuable for floral arrangements and indoor displays.
Growing Conditions and Care
Rose 'Pure Poetry' thrives in full sun positions where it can develop its most vibrant deep magenta colours and maintain healthy, vigorous growth. The rose adapts well to most garden soils provided they are well-drained and reasonably fertile, though it will reward good soil preparation with exceptional performance.
Standard rose care practices apply: annual feeding with balanced rose fertiliser, regular watering during dry periods, and pruning in late winter to maintain shape and encourage vigorous new growth. The naturally robust, bushy growth habit responds well to pruning, producing abundant new shoots and flowers. Benefits from dis-budding to increase flower size for show-quality blooms.
Versatile Garden Applications
With its manageable stature and exceptional flowering, 'Pure Poetry' offers outstanding versatility for various garden situations. Ideal for specimen planting where its stunning deep magenta blooms and exceptional fragrance can be fully appreciated, it also works beautifully in mixed borders where its romantic flowers provide sophisticated focal points.
The compact yet impressive growth makes it perfect for formal rose gardens, mixed perennial borders, or as part of cutting gardens where the exceptional blooms can be harvested regularly for indoor arrangements. Suitable for growing in a pot, making it ideal for patio cultivation and container gardens.
Award-Winning Excellence
'Pure Poetry' has achieved remarkable recognition, earning both The People's Choice Award and the prestigious Tollcross Fragrance Prize at Glasgow 2013. These awards place it among the elite of modern roses, reflecting the variety's exceptional combination of beauty, fragrance, and garden performance as judged by both industry experts and rose enthusiasts. The dual recognition confirms that gardeners can invest with confidence in a rose that has proven its outstanding qualities through rigorous evaluation.
Container Growing Potential
With its manageable dimensions and robust growth habit, 'Pure Poetry' performs excellently in containers, making it suitable for patios, terraces, and urban gardens where space might be limited. The bushy, upright growth creates an attractive shape that works well in larger containers, rewarding with the same spectacular deep magenta blooms and superb fragrance as garden-planted specimens.
Container cultivation allows gardeners to position this highly fragrant rose where its exceptional scent can be most appreciated, whilst the strong stems ensure excellent performance for cut flowers.
Seasonal Interest and Maintenance
'Pure Poetry' provides substantial seasonal interest beginning with healthy, disease-resistant foliage emerging in spring, followed by the spectacular deep magenta blooms that continue through summer and autumn. The robust, bushy growth habit maintains an attractive form throughout the season, providing structure even between flowering periods.
The highly scented blooms add another dimension to the garden experience, whilst the hybrid tea form provides the classic elegance that gardeners cherish, enhanced by the old-fashioned rose character of the open blooms.
Companion Planting
The stunning deep magenta and ruby red blooms of 'Pure Poetry' work beautifully with a wide range of companion plants. The rich burgundy colours harmonise perfectly with silver foliage plants, while complementing purple perennials like lavender, catmint, or salvia for sophisticated monochromatic schemes.
For elegant contrasts, pair with cream or white roses that allow the deep magenta blooms to take centre stage whilst providing complementary flowering periods. The romantic character of the flowers also works beautifully with heritage perennials and cottage garden plants.
Why Choose Rose 'Pure Poetry'?
Rose 'Pure Poetry' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a truly exceptional hybrid tea that delivers both romantic appeal and modern performance. Its award-winning status, stunning deep magenta blooms, superb old rose fragrance, and excellent disease resistance combine to create a variety that's both breathtakingly beautiful and remarkably reliable.
Whether you're an experienced rose enthusiast seeking a world-class variety with unique character or a passionate gardener wanting a rose that provides months of spectacular colour and exceptional fragrance, 'Pure Poetry' delivers outstanding results. Its combination of hybrid tea elegance, old-fashioned romance, powerful fragrance, and award-winning pedigree makes it an investment in years of garden pleasure and a rose that truly embodies the poetry of the garden.
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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