Rose 'Red Devil' - Hybrid Tea Rose
A spectacular dramatic hybrid tea rose producing abundant displays of magnificent large crimson-red blooms with silver-white reverses and moderate fragrance, complemented by healthy dark green foliage, vigorous upright growth, and good disease resistance, making it perfect for bold garden displays, dramatic borders, and outstanding cutting arrangements.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous hybrid tea rose
- Eventual Height: 120cm
- Eventual Spread: 75cm
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Deep crimson-red with silver-white petal reverses
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Very vigorous, upright and bushy
- Flower Type: Very large double blooms 14cm (5.5 inches) across with dramatic bicoloured petals
- Fragrance: Moderate, sweet and slightly spicy fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Red Devil' stands as the ultimate dramatic garden rose, specifically bred by the renowned Alex Dickson & Sons in Northern Ireland and introduced in 1967 to represent the pinnacle of bold bicoloured rose breeding with exceptional garden impact. This exceptional variety produces masses of spectacular very large blooms measuring 14cm across with distinctive high-centred form that showcases remarkable colour combinations of deep crimson-red petals dramatically contrasted with silver-white reverses that create stunning visual impact. The striking bicoloured effect creates breathtaking garden drama that commands attention throughout the extended flowering season, whilst the moderate sweet and slightly spicy fragrance adds aromatic interest that enhances any garden setting. 'Red Devil' delivers outstanding garden performance with bold theatrical appeal, making it ideal for dramatic plantings, show gardens, container cultivation, and anywhere spectacular beauty with exceptional garden excellence is desired.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Red Devil' lies in its abundant displays of magnificently large dramatic blooms that showcase perfect hybrid tea form with exceptional colour contrast and substantial presence. Each flower displays distinctive deep crimson-red petals with silver-white reverses in classic high-centred shape, measuring 14cm across and creating blooms of remarkable visual impact and garden drama. The unique bicoloured effect provides spectacular displays that create stunning contrast throughout the flowering season, creating consistent theatrical appeal that symbolises boldness and garden excitement. The flowers are produced continuously throughout summer and autumn, opening from impressively large pointed buds that add dramatic anticipation to the garden display. The moderate sweet and slightly spicy fragrance complements the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both dramatic garden themes and everyday garden enjoyment.
Growth Characteristics
The very vigorous upright stems provide excellent support for the abundant very large flower displays, making this variety particularly valuable for cutting and show garden applications where stem strength and flower presentation are crucial. The healthy dark green foliage is produced abundantly, creating attractive glossy backdrop that perfectly complements the dramatic bicoloured blooms whilst maintaining excellent appearance throughout the growing season. The exceptionally vigorous growth ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial garden impact that requires adequate space but rewards with magnificent displays in diverse garden settings from large borders to specimen plantings.
Flowering Performance
From early summer through to late autumn, 'Red Devil' delivers exceptional flowering displays with abundant repeat blooming that continues consistently throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of spectacular very large 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 dramatic colour contrast and impressive size, whilst the high-centred form ensures each flower maintains its theatrical appearance for extended periods. The prolific flowering nature ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the abundant dramatic blooms providing continuous focal points that electrify garden spaces with their bold beauty and moderate fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Red Devil' 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 dramatic bicolour 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 vigorous size requires adequate spacing to accommodate its substantial growth habit.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
One of the most notable features of 'Red Devil' 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 dark green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with natural resilience, making it a reliable choice for gardeners seeking dramatic show plantings with manageable maintenance requirements.
Care and Maintenance
'Red Devil' requires standard hybrid tea rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and dramatic 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 dedicated gardeners seeking spectacular dramatic plantings. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the magnificent 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
'Red Devil' excels in dramatic garden displays and show rose gardens where its spectacular beauty and outstanding performance can be fully appreciated. The magnificent bicoloured blooms make it ideal for exhibition gardens, bold themed plantings, and dramatic displays where theatrical beauty and reliable performance are essential. Perfect for large beds and borders, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with strong stems and excellent vase life that enhance floral arrangements for special occasions and dramatic events. The vigorous growth and abundant flowering make it particularly suitable for creating spectacular displays in show gardens, whilst the substantial size ensures it serves as an impressive specimen plant in diverse garden settings.
Container Growing
The vigorous growth makes 'Red Devil' well-suited to very large container cultivation for patios, terraces, and dramatic displays. The rose thrives in substantial containers where its magnificent bicoloured blooms can create spectacular focal points and theatrical displays, making it perfect for show settings and dramatic occasion areas where bold beauty enhances the garden experience. Choose containers at least 60cm 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 dramatic appeal make this worthwhile for show plantings and theatrical garden celebrations.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Red Devil' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous dramatic colour and reliable performance. Spring brings the emergence of healthy dark green foliage and the first impressively large buds, building anticipation for the main flowering display. The spectacular crimson and silver blooms from early summer through late autumn provide months of theatrical colour that maintains intensity throughout the season, creating consistent dramatic impact. The attractive glossy foliage remains healthy throughout the season with good disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the spectacular flower displays, whilst the vigorous upright branching structure provides strong architectural interest during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Red Devil' features moderate sweet and slightly spicy fragrance that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the dramatic garden experience. The pleasant fragrance adds appealing aromatic interest to outdoor spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for cutting gardens where both visual beauty and moderate aromatic appeal are desired for theatrical occasions. The sweet spicy scent enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where fragrance contributes to the dramatic garden experience, particularly during show events, garden exhibitions, and spectacular garden celebrations.
Companion Planting
The deep crimson-red and silver-white blooms of 'Red Devil' provide excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and bold colour schemes. The dramatic bicolour works beautifully with white and silver flowers for striking combinations that highlight both the theatrical appeal and garden drama, whilst deep purple flowers create rich complementary displays. Silver and grey foliage plants complement the bicolour effect whilst black or very dark foliage provides dramatic contrasting displays. The vigorous growth makes it suitable for planting with substantial shrubs and architectural plants that enhance the garden's theatrical atmosphere throughout the growing season.
Heritage and Innovation
'Red Devil' represents exceptional hybrid tea breeding achievement by Alex Dickson & Sons in Northern Ireland, introduced in 1967 during the golden age of exhibition rose breeding to demonstrate the pinnacle of dramatic bicoloured rose development. The variety demonstrates innovative breeding that successfully integrated spectacular colour contrast with exceptional size and reliable performance, creating a rose that satisfies both show garden aesthetics and practical gardening requirements. The breeding achievement brings together exceptional flowering abundance, theatrical appeal, and garden reliability that makes this variety particularly valuable for dramatic plantings and exhibition gardens.
Show Garden Excellence
One of the most valued features of 'Red Devil' is its exceptional qualities for exhibition and show garden displays, making it uniquely prestigious for dramatic garden presentations. The magnificent bicoloured blooms symbolise theatrical excellence and garden spectacle, whilst the impressive size represents the pinnacle of hybrid tea breeding achievement. This show garden significance, combined with outstanding garden performance, makes it particularly appealing to gardeners seeking roses with both exhibition quality and proven garden excellence.
Cut Flower Excellence
The excellent cut flower qualities make 'Red Devil' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to bring dramatic beauty indoors for special occasions, theatrical events, and spectacular floral displays. The strong stems, very large blooms, and moderate fragrance create outstanding floral arrangements that provide lasting indoor enjoyment whilst maintaining the theatrical significance of this dramatically coloured exhibition rose. The prolific flowering ensures plenty of spectacular blooms for cutting whilst maintaining garden displays, making it ideal for both garden beauty and exceptional dramatic arrangements.
Why Choose 'Red Devil'?
Rose 'Red Devil' represents the perfect combination of dramatic appeal, exceptional performance, and theatrical beauty. The abundant displays of magnificent very large bicoloured blooms with their moderate spicy 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 dramatic garden themes, exhibition displays, show gardens, or simply for its exceptional beauty and theatrical appeal, this outstanding hybrid tea rose offers unique value that combines spectacular breeding excellence with outstanding garden performance, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates drama and theatrical 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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