Rose 'Rock & Roll' – The Spectacular Striped Grandiflora
A show-stopping grandiflora rose that delivers an extraordinary display of striped and splashed colour, bred by the renowned American rose hybridiser, Tom Carruth. This exceptional variety produces large, very full blooms in dramatic burgundy, red and white stripes that create a mesmerising carnival of colour. Introduced by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower in 2007 with very good disease resistance, 'Rock & Roll' represents innovation in modern rose breeding, making it perfect for gardeners who appreciate bold, theatrical colour combined with outstanding garden performance and delicious fragrance.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous grandiflora rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: Late spring to mid autumn
- Flower Colour: Striped and splashed burgundy, red and white
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Bushy, upright, vigorous
- Foliage: Dark green, glossy, disease-resistant leaves
- Fragrance: Very fragrant with strong, fruity rose fragrance
- Position: Full sun
- Soil Requirements: Average to evenly moist, well-drained soil
Overview
Rose 'Rock & Roll' stands as a flashy grandiflora that creates one of the most theatrical displays in the rose world with its dramatic striped and splashed burgundy, red and white blooms. This exceptional variety combines spectacular colour with reliable modern garden performance, creating a rose that truly captures the essence of showmanship and excitement. The constantly changing striped patterns and strong, fruity rose fragrance make it an ideal choice for gardeners seeking a rose that provides both stunning garden presence and exceptional cut flower performance.
Spectacular Flower Characteristics
The defining beauty of 'Rock & Roll' lies in its magnificent large, very full blooms that are striped and splashed with burgundy, red and white creating a truly mesmerising display. These medium-large, very full blooms feature creamy buds that set the 'beat' for what becomes a rockin' show of colours. Each petal unfurls to reveal a different pattern of striped and splashed burgundy, red and white, ensuring no two flowers are exactly alike.
The impressive 4+ inch diameter blooms are fully double and held proudly on strong stems. Big creamy buds open to reveal wild stripes of burgundy, red and white, with each bloom displaying unique patterns that create constant visual interest. The flowers are excellent for cutting, maintaining their dramatic striped appearance in arrangements.
Exceptional Fragrance
One of 'Rock & Roll's' most celebrated features is its very fragrant, strong, fruity rose fragrance. This delicious perfume creates an olfactory experience that perfectly complements the visual spectacle. The powerful scent enhances the rose's appeal for positions near seating areas, pathways, or windows where the extraordinary fragrance can be fully appreciated.
Outstanding Garden Performance
'Rock & Roll' demonstrates very good disease resistance and vigorous growth that matches its stunning appearance. The neat and compact habit features dark, glossy foliage with excellent disease resistance, making the impressive-looking striped blooms really stand out. This healthy, attractive foliage remains appealing throughout the growing season, ensuring year-round garden structure and appeal.
The rose exhibits a bushy growth habit with upright stems, creating a visually appealing structure. This fast-growing variety maintains excellent health with minimal intervention, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.
Continuous Flowering Performance
As a repeat-flowering grandiflora rose, 'Rock & Roll' provides spectacular blooms from late spring to mid autumn, ensuring months of theatrical colour. This garden cast member will play the lead role with its continuous display of dramatic striped flowers throughout the extended flowering season.
The vigorous nature of this variety means it produces generous quantities of high-quality blooms, making it excellent for both garden display and cut flower arrangements where the unique striped patterns create unforgettable impact.
Growing Conditions and Care
Rose 'Rock & Roll' should only be grown in full sunlight where it can develop its most dramatic striped colours and maintain healthy, vigorous growth. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions with well-drained soil, though it adapts well to most garden soils provided they meet these basic requirements.
The rose will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. Standard rose care practices apply: regular watering during dry periods and pruning in late winter to maintain shape and encourage vigorous new growth.
Versatile Garden Applications
With its compact size making it an excellent choice for various garden settings, 'Rock & Roll' offers exceptional versatility for different garden situations. The dramatic striped blooms make it ideal for specimen planting where the theatrical colour can be fully appreciated, creating focal points that demand attention.
Perfect for attracting bees to your yard, this variety works beautifully in mixed borders where the extraordinary flowers and exceptional fragrance provide bold focal points. Plant mid-border or in a large container where the impressive striped blooms can be displayed at eye level.
Breeding Excellence
'Rock & Roll' was developed by Tom Carruth in 2006 and introduced by Weeks Wholesale Rose Grower, Inc. in 2007. Tom Carruth is recognised as the most successful hybridiser in the United States today, with hybrid introductions that stress disease resistance, fragrance, floriferousness, novelty, and attractive habit. This variety represents his expertise in creating roses with unique characteristics and excellent garden performance.
Container Growing Potential
With its manageable size and upright growth habit, 'Rock & Roll' performs exceptionally well in larger containers, making it suitable for patios, terraces, and urban gardens where space might be limited. The dramatic striped colours bring theatrical impact to container displays, creating focal points that are simply unmatched by traditional single-colour roses.
Available as a standard rose, 'Rock & Roll' will add height and create a stunning focal point in your garden with blooms displayed at all levels on a rounded standard rose head. Container-grown plants will require more regular watering and feeding but reward with the same extraordinary striped blooms and exceptional fragrance as garden-planted specimens.
Seasonal Interest and Maintenance
'Rock & Roll' provides substantial seasonal interest beginning with healthy, disease-resistant foliage emerging in spring, followed by the spectacular striped blooms that continue through summer and autumn. The bushy, upright growth maintains an attractive form throughout the season, providing structure even between flowering periods.
The vigorous growth rate ensures quick establishment and reliable performance, whilst the very good disease resistance translates to lower maintenance requirements, ensuring gardeners can enjoy their plants without constant worry about disease problems.
Companion Planting
The dramatic striped blooms of 'Rock & Roll' work beautifully with a wide range of companion plants. The burgundy, red and white striped colours complement many colour schemes, making them particularly valuable for bold garden designs. They work exceptionally well with solid-coloured roses that enhance the striped patterns whilst maintaining similar flowering periods.
For striking combinations, pair with purple perennials like lavender or catmint that complement the burgundy tones whilst creating colour harmony. White or cream roses make excellent companions, allowing the dramatic stripes to provide bold contrast whilst maintaining cohesive garden schemes.
Why Choose Rose 'Rock & Roll'?
Rose 'Rock & Roll' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a truly spectacular rose that delivers both theatrical colour and exceptional garden performance. Its unique striped blooms, very fragrant flowers, and very good disease resistance combine to create a variety that's both breathtakingly dramatic and remarkably practical.
Whether you're an experienced rose enthusiast seeking a world-class grandiflora with unique characteristics or a passionate gardener wanting a rose that provides months of extraordinary colour and exceptional fragrance, 'Rock & Roll' delivers outstanding results. Its combination of spectacular striped flowers, strong fruity fragrance, vigorous growth, and expert breeding pedigree makes it an investment in years of garden drama and a rose that truly embodies horticultural showmanship.
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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