Rose 'Secret Smile' – The Award-Winning Vibrant Floribunda
A spectacular floribunda rose that delivers an extraordinary display of vibrant deep pink blooms with striking golden stamens, bred by the renowned Dickson Nurseries. This exceptional variety produces masses of semi-double flowers in rich china rose pink that create a mesmerising display of warm colour enhanced by beautiful bright yellow stamens when fully open. Certificate of Merit, The Hague; Golden Prize of the City of Glasgow, 2022 with excellent disease resistance, 'Secret Smile' represents innovation in modern rose breeding, making it perfect for gardeners who appreciate bold, vibrant colour combined with outstanding garden performance and subtle fragrance.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous floribunda rose
- Eventual Height: 1.6m
- Eventual Spread: 80cm
- Flowering Period: Late spring to frost
- Flower Colour: Rich deep pink with bright golden stamens
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celcius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, upright, vigorous
- Foliage: Dark green, glossy, disease-resistant leaves
- Fragrance: Subtle fragrance
- Position: Full sun
- Soil Requirements: Well-drained, fertile soil
Overview
Rose 'Secret Smile' stands as an outstanding floribunda that creates one of the most eye-catching displays in the rose world with its vibrant china rose pink blooms enhanced by striking golden stamens. This exceptional variety combines spectacular colour with reliable modern garden performance, creating a rose that truly captures the essence of cheerful elegance. This plant produces masses of good Scented Blooms which reveal the beautiful bright Yellow stamens when fully open, making it an ideal choice for gardeners seeking a rose that provides both stunning garden presence and excellent pollinator appeal.
Spectacular Flower Characteristics
The defining beauty of 'Secret Smile' lies in its magnificent semi-double blooms that showcase rich china rose pink with striking golden stamens. Pink blooms with striking golden stamens with dark green glossy foliage and subtle fragrance, ensuring each bloom displays classic rose elegance with modern vigour. The vibrant flowers create constant visual interest throughout the extended flowering season.
The double flowers are pink, with lots of bright yellow stamens, very attractive to pollinating insects. Each flower displays consistent deep pink colouring with prominent golden centres, creating a warm and inviting display that brightens any garden space. The flowers are excellent for cutting, maintaining their vibrant appearance and subtle fragrance in arrangements.
Exceptional Garden Performance
Excellent disease free rose with it`s Dark Glossy Foliage on a upright bush, 'Secret Smile' demonstrates superior garden performance that matches its stunning appearance. This variety has superb disease tolerance, making the impressive pink blooms really stand out. This healthy, attractive foliage remains appealing throughout the growing season, ensuring year-round garden structure and appeal.
A strong-grower with stiff, upright habit and healthy foliage, this variety maintains excellent health with minimal intervention, making it an exceptional choice for gardeners seeking low-maintenance roses with maximum impact.
Continuous Flowering Performance
Flowering period: late spring to frost repeat, 'Secret Smile' provides spectacular blooms for an extended season. It repeat flowers well, producing a lovely display from early summer to mid autumn, ensuring months of vibrant colour and pollinator attraction.
A rich and vibrant floribunda rose with masses of fragrant, semi-double deep pink flowers means it produces generous quantities of high-quality blooms, making it excellent for both garden display and cut flower arrangements where the vibrant pink and golden tones create unforgettable impact.
Growing Conditions and Care
Rose 'Secret Smile' thrives in full sun where it can develop its most vibrant pink colours and maintain healthy, vigorous growth. Grow in any well-drained, fertile soil in full sun and feed twice a year with a rose fertiliser for optimal performance.
Versatile Garden Applications
Use: Borders Containers Mixed Planting Small Beds, making 'Secret Smile' exceptionally versatile for different garden situations. This variety makes a compact plant which can be grown well in a container or in the garden, perfect for gardeners with limited space or those wanting flexible planting options.
Suitable for borders, pots, mixed planting and small beds, this variety works beautifully in various garden situations where vibrant colour and pollinator appeal are desired. The compact size makes it ideal for front-of-border planting or as specimen plants in smaller gardens.
Awards and Recognition
'Secret Smile' has achieved exceptional recognition in the rose world. Awards: Certificate of Merit, The Hague; Golden Prize of the City of Glasgow, 2022. These prestigious awards recognise both the exceptional garden performance and outstanding visual appeal that make this variety truly special.
Pollinator Appeal
One of 'Secret Smile's' most valuable garden features is its exceptional appeal to beneficial insects. The double flowers are pink, with lots of bright yellow stamens, very attractive to pollinating insects, making it an excellent choice for wildlife-friendly gardens and sustainable gardening practices.
Seasonal Interest and Maintenance
'Secret Smile' provides substantial seasonal interest beginning with healthy, disease-resistant foliage emerging in spring, followed by spectacular pink blooms that continue until frost. Flowers until November, providing extended seasonal colour and structure.
This variety has superb disease tolerance translates to lower maintenance requirements, ensuring gardeners can enjoy their plants without constant worry about fungal problems, making it an environmentally friendly choice for modern gardens.
Container Growing Excellence
This variety makes a compact plant which can be grown well in a container or in the garden, making 'Secret Smile' perfect for patio gardens, terraces, and urban spaces. The compact growth habit and continuous flowering make it ideal for container cultivation where space is limited but impact is desired.
Container-grown plants will require more regular watering and feeding but reward with the same vibrant pink blooms and golden stamens as garden-planted specimens, creating stunning focal points in any outdoor space.
Companion Planting
The vibrant pink blooms with golden centres of 'Secret Smile' work beautifully with a wide range of companion plants. The rich pink tones complement many colour schemes, making them particularly valuable for cheerful garden designs. They work exceptionally well with purple perennials like lavender that complement the pink hues whilst creating harmonious colour combinations.
For striking combinations, pair with white or cream roses that enhance the pink tones whilst maintaining similar flowering periods. Silver-leafed plants like artemisia create elegant contrasts that highlight the rose's vibrant blooms and golden stamens.
Why Choose Rose 'Secret Smile'?
Rose 'Secret Smile' represents the perfect choice for gardeners seeking a truly spectacular floribunda that delivers both vibrant colour and exceptional garden performance. Its unique pink blooms with golden stamens, award-winning garden performance, and excellent disease resistance combine to create a variety that's both breathtakingly beautiful and remarkably practical.
Whether you're an experienced rose enthusiast seeking a world-class floribunda with proven performance or a passionate gardener wanting a rose that provides months of extraordinary colour and pollinator appeal, 'Secret Smile' delivers outstanding results. Its combination of spectacular flowers, subtle fragrance, vigorous growth, compact habit, and expert breeding pedigree makes it an investment in years of garden joy and a rose that truly embodies horticultural excellence.
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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