Rose 'Red Blanket' - Shrub Rose
A versatile spreading shrub rose that transforms garden spaces with its abundant masses of charming deep pink to rosy-red blooms, light fragrance, and exceptional groundcover performance throughout the season, perfectly complemented by plentiful glossy dark green foliage and dense spreading growth habit that makes it ideal for groundcover, low hedging, containers, and landscape blanket displays with reliable garden excellence.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous spreading shrub rose
- Eventual Height: 1.2 metres
- Eventual Spread: 1 metres
- Flowering Period: Summer to autumn continuously
- Flower Colour: Deep pink to rosy-red
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Dense, spreading, groundcover formation
- Flower Type: Small semi-double blooms in clusters
- Fragrance: Light, pleasant rose fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Red Blanket' embodies versatile garden beauty, producing continuous displays of charming deep pink to rosy-red blooms that create spectacular colour coverage throughout the extended growing season. This outstanding spreading shrub variety transforms garden spaces with its abundantly flowering dense habit that showcases one of the most appealing colour palettes in groundcover roses, where individual small semi-double blooms feature rich deep pink to rosy-red surfaces arranged in attractive clusters that create comprehensive visual impact across any garden setting. The charming colour palette makes this rose particularly impressive for contemporary landscape designs and groundcover applications, representing warmth, reliability, and garden distinction. The flowers emerge continuously from summer through autumn, creating sustained displays that maintain spreading proportions with consistent spectacular appeal. The light fragrance enhances the magnificent visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that complement both traditional garden borders and modern landscape designs with reliable beauty and dependable performance, whilst providing exceptional groundcover blanket effects.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Red Blanket' lies in its abundant clusters of small blooms that showcase classic semi-double formation with charming colour depth and impressive spreading presence. Each flower displays beautifully formed structure with semi-double petals featuring rich deep pink to rosy-red surfaces arranged in attractive clusters, creating displays of exceptional beauty and reliable charm. The charming colour palette provides spectacular displays that maintain their impact throughout the flowering season, creating warm visual appeal that symbolises comfort and garden reliability. The flowers are produced continuously with exceptional free-flowering habit, emerging in attractive clusters that add magnificent abundance to the groundcover display. The light fragrance complements the charming visual appeal, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both landscape applications and everyday garden enjoyment with reliable colour sophistication and gentle aromatic charm.
Growth Characteristics
The dense spreading habit provides excellent versatile growth for impressive groundcover displays, making this variety particularly valuable for landscaping, low hedging, and architectural applications where controlled spreading growth and abundant flowering coverage are essential. The plentiful glossy dark green foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the deep pink to rosy-red bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent vigour and contemporary appeal. The dense spreading growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial groundcover impact that fits well into diverse garden settings from landscape blankets to border edges, with the manageable proportions making it suitable for both established gardens and prominent landscape positions where its spreading beauty can be fully appreciated whilst providing excellent coverage.
Flowering Performance
From summer through to autumn, 'Red Blanket' delivers exceptional flowering displays with outstanding continuous blooming that maintains reliability throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces abundant clusters of small blooms consistently, creating impressive spreading visual impact with exceptional performance that ensures ongoing garden charm. The individual blooms develop with classic semi-double formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect deep pink to rosy-red colour richness and warm tonal quality, whilst the small flower size ensures charming presence for extended periods. The prolific free-flowering nature ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the ongoing abundant clusters providing persistent blanket coverage that enhances garden spaces with their charming colour palette and light fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Red Blanket' thrives in full sun to partial shade with fertile, well-prepared, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal flowering performance and colour development. The rose adapts exceptionally well to various soil conditions including poor soils and performs excellently in groundcover applications, container cultivation, and landscape features where the deep pink to rosy-red colours can create maximum visual impact. For best results, plant in sunny positions with reasonable light, incorporating well-rotted organic matter to support the healthy spreading growth and vigorous foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding and responds well to standard shrub rose care practices, whilst the dense spreading ability makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from groundcover blankets to low hedging where its charming qualities and reliable performance can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Red Blanket' demonstrates excellent hardiness characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with good general disease resistance. The variety shows strong resistance to seasonal variations and weather conditions, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable charming groundcover plantings. The plentiful glossy dark green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with reasonable disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking dependable spreading plantings with manageable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable colour development and flowering performance throughout the growing season whilst tolerating challenging conditions and partial shade.
Care and Maintenance
'Red Blanket' requires standard shrub rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and spreading development. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular watering during dry periods to support the healthy dense growth and abundant flower production. The reasonable disease resistance means this variety benefits from standard care practices, making it ideal for gardeners seeking reliable groundcover plantings with charming impact. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular colour display throughout the season, whilst light annual pruning in late winter maintains the spreading structure and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and groundcover coverage.
Garden Applications
'Red Blanket' excels in groundcover displays and versatile garden features where its spreading beauty and reliable habit can be fully appreciated. The deep pink to rosy-red combination makes it ideal for contemporary landscape blankets, low hedging applications, and container schemes where charming colour impact and dependable spreading performance are essential. Perfect for groundcover areas, low informal hedging, container cultivation, and wildlife gardens, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with reasonable stems and good vase life that enhance floral arrangements with charming colour warmth for special occasions and delightful displays. The dense spreading growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating comprehensive groundcover blankets and landscape coverage, whilst the manageable proportions ensure it provides impressive presence in areas where its spreading colour creates reliable garden impact.
Groundcover and Container Use
The dense spreading habit makes 'Red Blanket' excellently suited to groundcover applications including landscape blankets, slope coverage, and container displays. The rose responds well to groundcover planting where the spreading growth can create maximum flowering impact and comprehensive coverage. Provide adequate spacing for the dense habit to develop effectively, allowing the spreading growth to establish complete blanket coverage. Regular maintenance during the growing season helps maintain optimal flowering coverage across the available groundcover space, maximising the charming display and landscape integration whilst providing reliable garden blanket effects.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Red Blanket' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous spreading displays and outstanding performance. Spring brings the emergence of plentiful glossy dark green foliage and strong new spreading growth, building anticipation for the main spectacular flowering display. The magnificent deep pink to rosy-red blooms from summer through autumn provide months of spreading colour charm that maintains its warmth throughout the season, creating consistent delightful impact. The attractive glossy foliage remains healthy throughout the season with good disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the abundant flower displays, whilst the dense spreading structure provides attractive landscape interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Red Blanket' features light pleasant fragrance that complements the charming visual display and enhances the groundcover garden experience. The gentle scent adds aromatic appeal to landscape spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for groundcover positions where both visual spreading beauty and gentle aromatic interest are desired for landscape occasions. The light fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where scent contributes to the groundcover garden experience, particularly near pathways and outdoor areas where the spreading beauty creates lasting charming impressions.
Companion Planting
The deep pink to rosy-red colouring of 'Red Blanket' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and warm colour schemes. The charming colour works beautifully with plants that complement the pink-red tones, including silver and grey foliage that creates elegant contrasts, whilst neutral backdrop plants provide excellent support that allows the warm colour to shine. White and cream flowers provide harmonious displays that highlight the charming colour combination, whilst complementary groundcover plants and hardy perennials can create delightful combinations throughout the growing season that celebrate garden warmth and landscape reliability.
Landscape Integration
The excellent dense spreading qualities make 'Red Blanket' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to integrate reliable beauty into groundcover features and contemporary landscape designs. The spreading habit, abundant clusters with charming colour, and light fragrance create outstanding displays that provide lasting landscape significance whilst maintaining excellent groundcover performance. The reliable dense growth ensures impressive coverage whilst maintaining natural proportions, making it ideal for both landscape beauty and practical groundcover displays that provide comprehensive statements for contemporary gardens and landscape celebrations with excellent performance.
Modern Groundcover Appeal
'Red Blanket' represents quality modern groundcover rose breeding that combines charming colour warmth with reliable spreading performance, making it an excellent choice for landscape gardeners seeking distinctive roses with versatile characteristics. The deep pink to rosy-red colouring offers exceptional visual impact whilst maintaining classic shrub rose appeal and performance, making it particularly suitable for contemporary landscape designs where warm colour statements and spreading coverage are important considerations.
Contemporary Landscape
'Red Blanket' carries special significance as a charmingly coloured reliable groundcover garden rose, making it particularly valuable for gardeners seeking warm spreading impact and landscape-themed displays. The delightful deep pink to rosy-red colour combined with light fragrance makes it suitable for gardens that require ongoing charming seasonal interest, whilst the reliable spreading performance ensures lasting beauty that continues to provide spectacular displays throughout the growing season with consistent colour warmth whilst celebrating excellent groundcover reliability.
Groundcover Heritage
'Red Blanket' was specifically bred for groundcover applications with the trade name 'Intercell', giving this variety particular expertise for gardeners seeking proven groundcover excellence and reliable landscape performance. The variety's charming appearance with its dense spreading habit and dependable flowering performance have made it popular among gardeners who appreciate roses that combine visual appeal with practical groundcover utility and landscape reliability, making it suitable for comprehensive landscape designs and practical groundcover plantings.
Why Choose 'Red Blanket'?
Rose 'Red Blanket' represents the perfect combination of charming groundcover beauty, warm colour reliability, and outstanding spreading performance. The abundant clusters with their delightful deep pink to rosy-red combination and light fragrance provide exceptional displays from summer through autumn, whilst the dense spreading growth and excellent hardiness ensure dependable performance with standard maintenance. Whether grown for groundcover displays, low hedging features, container cultivation, or simply for its charming beauty and reliable spreading nature, this outstanding shrub rose offers distinctive value that combines practical appeal with landscape excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates garden reliability and landscape sophistication with spreading colour charm that enhances any garden setting where coverage, reliability, and charming spreading impact are appreciated.
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.
Aftercare
No posts found
| Size | Availability | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
In stock
|
£13.99 |