Rose 'Roseraie de l'Hay' - Shrub Rose
A magnificent vigorous shrub rose that brings continuous displays of spectacular large purplish-crimson blooms to gardens with its exceptionally strong fragrance, robust healthy growth, and outstanding repeat flowering performance throughout the season, perfectly complemented by distinctive rugosa foliage with excellent autumn colour and thorny stems that make it ideal for hedging, woodland planting, wildlife gardens, and substantial garden displays where reliability and natural beauty are paramount.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous rugosa shrub rose
- Eventual Height: 2.2 metres
- Eventual Spread: 2.2 metres
- Flowering Period: July to September
- Flower Colour: Purplish-crimson to wine-purple
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Vigorous upright shrub with dense thorny growth
- Flower Type: Large semi-double blooms opening almost flat
- Fragrance: Very strong rich spicy fragrance
Overview
Rose 'Roseraie de l'Hay' embodies exceptional garden performance and natural beauty, producing continuous displays of spectacular large purplish-crimson blooms that create breathtaking colour impact throughout the extended growing season. This outstanding rugosa variety transforms garden spaces with its magnificently flowering vigorous growth that showcases rich wine-purple coloration in impressive large formations, making it particularly valuable for substantial plantings, wildlife gardens, and natural landscape applications. The robust healthy growth makes this rose especially treasured by gardeners seeking reliable beauty with exceptional performance, representing strength, natural elegance, and garden distinction. The flowers emerge continuously from midsummer through autumn in masses of spectacular blooms, creating sustained displays that reach impressive heights with consistent dramatic appeal. The very strong rich spicy fragrance carries on the air, enhancing the spectacular visual impact and creating memorable garden experiences that complement both traditional garden structures and natural landscape designs with bold beauty and exceptional reliability.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Roseraie de l'Hay' lies in its masses of large semi-double blooms that showcase magnificent formation with stunning purplish-crimson colouring and commanding natural presence. Each flower displays beautifully formed structure with informal semi-double petals featuring rich wine-purple tones that open almost flat with distinctive cream stamens in magnificent arrangements, creating displays of exceptional beauty and natural charm. The striking colour provides captivating displays that maintain their impact throughout the flowering season, creating spectacular visual drama that symbolises natural strength and garden magnificence. The flowers are produced continuously with outstanding repeat flowering, emerging from elongated deep wine-coloured buds that add magnificent anticipation to the garden display. The very strong rich spicy fragrance with sugared almond notes complements the dramatic visual appeal, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both natural applications and everyday garden enjoyment with bold colour sophistication and exceptional aromatic impact.
Growth Characteristics
The vigorous upright growth provides excellent structure for impressive displays, making this variety particularly valuable for hedging, woodland planting, and substantial garden applications where robust beauty and natural strength are essential. The distinctive glossy corrugated apple-green foliage with deeply veined rugosa characteristics is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the purplish-crimson bloom colours whilst maintaining excellent vigour and natural appeal. The dense thorny growth ensures reliable protection and natural boundaries whilst creating substantial visual impact that fits perfectly into diverse garden settings from woodland plantings to substantial hedges, with the vigorous healthy growth making it suitable for both established gardens and challenging conditions where its natural resilience can be fully appreciated.
Flowering Performance
From midsummer through to autumn, 'Roseraie de l'Hay' delivers exceptional flowering displays with outstanding repeat blooming that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces masses of spectacular large semi-double blooms consistently, creating impressive visual impact with exceptional performance that ensures ongoing garden magnificence. The individual blooms develop with classic rugosa formation reaching up to 11cm across, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect purplish-crimson colouring and distinctive flat-opening quality with cream stamens, whilst the substantial flower size ensures impressive presence for extended periods. The prolific flowering nature ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the continuous dramatic blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their striking colour palette and exceptionally strong fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Roseraie de l'Hay' thrives in full sun but demonstrates remarkable tolerance of partial shade and poor soils, requiring minimal soil preparation whilst adapting to challenging conditions that would defeat many garden roses. The rose adapts exceptionally well to various soil conditions including clay, sandy, and coastal soils, performing excellently in locations where the purplish-crimson colours can create maximum visual impact. Notably salt-tolerant and suitable for coastal positions, making it more versatile than many rose varieties. For best results, plant in open locations with reasonable air circulation, though it tolerates exposed positions well. The variety benefits from occasional feeding but performs reliably with minimal intervention, whilst the vigorous growth makes it suitable for diverse situations from challenging coastal gardens to woodland edges where its natural qualities and striking colour can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Roseraie de l'Hay' demonstrates exceptional hardiness characteristics with outstanding resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with excellent disease resistance. The variety shows remarkable resistance to seasonal variations, coastal conditions, and challenging weather, making it supremely dependable for gardeners seeking reliable substantial plantings. The distinctive rugosa foliage remains attractive and vigorous with excellent natural disease resistance, making it an outstanding choice for gardeners seeking dependable plantings with minimal maintenance requirements. The extremely hardy nature ensures consistent performance across challenging growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable colour development and flowering performance throughout the growing season even in difficult locations.
Care and Maintenance
'Roseraie de l'Hay' requires minimal maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and natural development. Apply balanced fertiliser occasionally if desired, though the rose performs reliably without intensive feeding, with occasional deep watering during extreme dry periods to support the vigorous growth and abundant flower production. The excellent disease resistance and natural vigour mean this variety requires minimal intervention, making it ideal for gardeners seeking reliable plantings with spectacular impact and low maintenance. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular colour display throughout the season, whilst annual pruning in late winter maintains the shrub structure and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance and manageable proportions.
Garden Applications
'Roseraie de l'Hay' excels in substantial garden displays, hedging applications, woodland plantings, and wildlife gardens where its natural beauty and vigorous growth can be fully appreciated. The purplish-crimson colouring makes it ideal for dramatic displays, natural landscape features, and wildlife-friendly gardens where bold colour impact and dependable performance are essential. Perfect for hedges, mixed borders, woodland edges, coastal gardens, and naturalistic plantings, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers with strong stems and excellent vase life that enhance floral arrangements with rich colour and exceptional fragrance for special occasions and substantial displays. The vigorous growth and continuous flowering make it particularly suitable for creating stunning focal points in larger gardens, whilst the substantial size ensures it provides impressive presence in challenging locations where its natural beauty creates spectacular displays with exceptional reliability.
Training and Support
The vigorous upright growth of 'Roseraie de l'Hay' requires minimal support, developing naturally into an attractive substantial shrub with impressive presence. The naturally robust habit maintains strong structure with minimal intervention, requiring only standard pruning to maintain optimal flowering and manageable proportions. For hedging applications, plant specimens 30-45cm apart to create dense coverage, whilst individual specimens develop into magnificent focal points. The thorny nature provides excellent natural security, making it particularly valuable for boundary plantings and protective hedging applications.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Roseraie de l'Hay' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous displays and outstanding year-round appeal. Spring brings the emergence of distinctive glossy corrugated apple-green foliage and strong new vigorous growth, building anticipation for the main spectacular flowering display. The magnificent purplish-crimson blooms from midsummer through autumn provide months of dramatic colour that maintains its sophistication throughout the season, creating consistent striking impact. The distinctive rugosa foliage provides excellent yellow autumn colour, whilst the vigorous thorny structure provides attractive architectural interest and wildlife shelter during dormant periods.
Fragrance Profile
'Roseraie de l'Hay' features very strong rich spicy fragrance with distinctive sugared almond notes that complements the spectacular visual display and enhances the garden experience significantly. The exceptional scent carries on the air, adding remarkable aromatic appeal to garden spaces whilst making this rose particularly valuable for positions where both visual beauty and outstanding aromatic interest are desired for memorable occasions. The very strong fragrance with rich spicy undertones transforms garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where exceptional scent contributes to the garden experience, particularly near seating areas, pathways, and entertaining spaces where the powerful perfume creates lasting magnificent impressions.
Companion Planting
The purplish-crimson colouring of 'Roseraie de l'Hay' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and sophisticated colour schemes. The rich colour works superbly with cerise and pink flowering plants, whilst neutral foliage plants provide excellent backdrop that allows the purplish-crimson colour to shine. White, cream, and silver flowers provide harmonious displays that highlight the dramatic colour, whilst clematis such as 'Princess Diana' creates fabulous combinations when allowed to scramble through the rose, creating refined displays throughout the growing season.
Wildlife and Environmental Value
'Roseraie de l'Hay' offers exceptional value for wildlife, providing abundant nectar sources throughout the long flowering season and creating excellent habitat with its thorny structure. The vigorous growth provides shelter and nesting opportunities for birds, whilst the natural disease resistance means no chemical interventions are required. Though this variety produces sterile flowers and no hips, its continuous flowering provides consistent nectar sources for pollinators throughout the season, making it valuable for wildlife-friendly gardens.
Hedging and Boundary Excellence
The excellent vigorous qualities make 'Roseraie de l'Hay' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to create substantial hedging and boundary features with natural beauty. The thorny stems, continuous blooms with striking purplish-crimson colouring, and very strong fragrance create outstanding hedging displays that provide lasting boundary enhancement whilst maintaining security benefits. The vigorous growth ensures impressive coverage whilst maintaining manageable proportions with annual pruning, making it ideal for both protective hedging and natural boundary displays that provide spectacular statements for substantial garden boundaries with excellent performance.
Coastal and Challenging Conditions
'Roseraie de l'Hay' represents rugosa rose breeding that combines natural beauty with exceptional resilience, making it an excellent choice for coastal gardeners and challenging locations seeking distinctive roses with outstanding characteristics. The purplish-crimson colouring offers exceptional visual impact whilst maintaining classic rugosa appeal and performance, making it particularly suitable for exposed garden designs where natural beauty and exceptional hardiness are important considerations.
Heritage and Historical Significance
'Roseraie de l'Hay' carries special historical significance as a classic rugosa variety introduced in 1901 by Gravereaux in France, making it particularly valuable for gardeners seeking proven heritage plantings with exceptional garden displays. The magnificent purplish-crimson colour combination with very strong fragrance makes it suitable for heritage gardens and traditional plantings that require ongoing spectacular seasonal interest, whilst the vigorous performance ensures lasting beauty that continues to provide outstanding displays throughout the growing season with consistent colour drama and impressive natural presence.
Award-Winning Excellence
'Roseraie de l'Hay' has earned the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit, recognising its exceptional performance, outstanding fragrance, and reliable garden value. The variety's magnificent appearance and dependable growth habit have made it popular among gardeners who appreciate roses that combine visual impact with exceptional resilience and minimal maintenance requirements for substantial garden applications.
Natural Garden Appeal
'Roseraie de l'Hay' represents classic rugosa rose breeding that combines spectacular natural beauty with outstanding resilience, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking distinctive roses with exceptional characteristics for challenging conditions. The rich purplish-crimson colouring offers exceptional visual impact whilst maintaining natural rugosa appeal and performance, making it particularly suitable for naturalistic garden designs where bold colour statements and exceptional hardiness are important considerations.
Woodland and Natural Planting
'Roseraie de l'Hay' carries special significance as a naturally beautiful vigorous shrub rose, making it particularly valuable for gardeners seeking substantial plantings and natural garden displays. The stunning purplish-crimson colour combination with very strong spicy fragrance makes it suitable for woodland edges and naturalistic plantings that require ongoing spectacular seasonal interest, whilst the vigorous performance ensures lasting beauty that continues to provide magnificent displays throughout the growing season with consistent colour drama and impressive natural resilience.
Why Choose 'Roseraie de l'Hay'?
Rose 'Roseraie de l'Hay' represents the perfect combination of spectacular natural beauty, magnificent purplish-crimson colouring, and exceptional resilience. The masses of large semi-double blooms with their rich colour and very strong spicy fragrance provide outstanding displays from midsummer through autumn, whilst the vigorous growth and exceptional hardiness ensure dependable performance with minimal maintenance. Whether grown for hedging displays, woodland plantings, challenging locations, coastal gardens, wildlife habitats, or simply for its magnificent beauty and natural resilience, this award-winning rugosa rose offers distinctive value that combines spectacular appeal with exceptional garden reliability, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates natural strength and garden magnificence with dramatic colour that enhances any garden setting where boldness, reliability, and substantial natural 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.
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